Text Message Differences
OK on my Blackberry, the usage says:
Other Usage
Available Used
TEXT MESSAGES UNLIMITED 7 UNLIMITED -
CASUAL SMS TEXT MESSAGING 0 15 0 15
So what is the difference between Text Messages and Casual SMS Text messages?
Other Usage
Available Used
TEXT MESSAGES UNLIMITED 7 UNLIMITED -
CASUAL SMS TEXT MESSAGING 0 15 0 15
So what is the difference between Text Messages and Casual SMS Text messages?
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DoubleHelix said:
OK on my Blackberry, the usage says:
Other Usage
Available Used
TEXT MESSAGES UNLIMITED 7 UNLIMITED -
CASUAL SMS TEXT MESSAGING 0 15 0 15
So what is the difference between Text Messages and Casual SMS Text messages?
SMS messages: Use your voicemail's paging system and are limited to 160 characters, thus, it's called SHORT MESSAGING SERVICE.
Text messaging from your Blackberry (MMS), uses data and works via the internet, therefore those messages are counted separately. MMS is multimedia messaging. You are basically opening your web browser to send these types of messages. On a Blackberry, they have tooled in a shortcut, similar to newer Nextel phon...
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I believe they have to assign an overage, even though it's unlimited. .15 a message over (lets say you had a 300 sms plan)- its just an overage code that's on all sms services.
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Okay see what had happened was (most likely, as there are several diffrent possible causes for this) is that you added unlimited text midcycle and had some usage before the plan went in to effect previous usage would have been rated casualy .20/msg or previous usage over the prorated amount of the messages in your previous plan (if you had one) would obviously also be billed at the casual/overage rate. THere are other possibilities but this one is most common.
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spazebar said:
Okay see what had happened was (most likely, as there are several diffrent possible causes for this) is that you added unlimited text midcycle and had some usage before the plan went in to effect previous usage would have been rated casualy .20/msg or previous usage over the prorated amount of the messages in your previous plan (if you had one) would obviously also be billed at the casual/overage rate. THere are other possibilities but this one is most common.
That is possible.
I was basing my answer on what my billing looked like prior to switching to Powersource phones.
With regular Nextel phones, my MMS and SMS were figured separately. My SMS always contained my number of "pages" wh...
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