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When you send a text message that is longer than the max limit for a single message does three charge for these. Or just reduce your allowance by the required amount
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they are just sent as 2 or 3 or whatever separate text messages. i'm not on 3 but AFAIK they are always treated as if you just sent more than one message.
assuming that you don't have one of those phones that switches to MMS
Just I have recent spend on the three app that I'm not sure what it is. Will phone them later which is always a frustrating experience
By the way, I'm on Three and I send long text messages and they just come out of your allowance as 2 or more SMS messages.
So you've either replied to somebody that sent you an MMS message and it's sent your text as an MMS or your phone has sent an MMS as a result of a large number of recipients or something.
If you have 2 data addons, sometimes on Three's system it takes a few seconds to realise that you've used up your allowance on one addon and started using the next and you get billed for the data for a few seconds until the next one kicks in. I had a small charge which was an error one month.
I'd ask them what it is first then you'll have more information to go on. I've always found them to be really good on the phone and never understood why people have issues, but then I've been to India for months in the past and work with an Indian team daily, on the phone and on email etc.
It's all in the way you talk to them, if you have a really strong Norfolk or Glasgow accent I guess you are going to have issues!
When is an SMS not an SMS
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1770559
The common theme is somebody sends you a picture message and you reply, your reply even though it's text defaults as an MMS message. This happens on a lot of handsets.
I'm pretty certain (most) phones send a long text as seperate texts. My iPhone does. A text that's 3 messages long certainly counts as 3 texts on my invoice. I have unlimited texts so it doesn't matter anyway. It appears that different phones handle different lengths differently.
Found this Nokia help page where it describes what happens in thier handsets. http://www.nokia.com/gb-en/support/troubleshooting/?action=singleFAQ&caseid=FA120178_en_US
The problem I see is that for example, I get free texts but have to pay for mms. So if my iPhone did what Nokia are describing and I send a massive text and it gets converted to an mms I would pay for it, whereas any number of texts wouldn't cost anything.
I seem to remember (don't hold me to this) that I once sent a really long text (like probably more than 10 texts) and my iphone actually split it into 2 searate multi-texts anyway.
Going to see if I can find out now.
Yeah, I think that happens on most handsets actually. Would make sense I guess but would be nice if the handset gave you a choice.
I think it gives you a popup saying it's sending over MMS and you can dismiss or say ok, or it puts up a message somewhere, but that depends on the phone / software.
There is a lot of confusion on most forums about splitting and rebuilding texts on the recievers end.
With multi texts that are not too long you see the text as one long text before you send but the network still handles them as seperate texts (but I guess with a flag to say it was origionally sent as one text (probably). If the receiving handset is modern it simply joins them back up again (eg. Androind, iOS). If the handset is really old it just displays them as seperate texts.
If it is MMS it's likely a reply to an MMS message that the OP thought they had sent over SMS, but in fact has been sent by the handset over MMS.
Agreed. MMS is the most likely culprit for recent spend - I got caught by it when I first got my S3, as it changes text into MMS automatically when the text is longer than 3 parts (as opposed to my previous handset which did it after 5 parts). There's nothing in the settings or anywhere else to say that it'll happen, it just does it. Bit of a shame really as texts come out of the inclusive allowance while MMS do not (because there is no MMS allowance), but that's hardly a Three only issue in this respect.
The galaxy ace 2 does this by default. As I found out when they got me for £2.90 worth of mms.:eek:
$$$$$
As per lost boy
i dont have an S3 its the Sony Xperia T
Turning delivery reports on sends extra metadata with the message which would increase the size potentially. It is if it becomes 3 messages that it sends over MMS according to this thread.