Texting allowances and message length???02 users

tyronealan

Can anyone out there tell me when i'm out of the country or in the uk and i text you know the way the phone Sony Ericcson K800i as you text it tells you that you are now on sms 1 sms 2 sms 3 etc as you type a mesage in . well the question is if you sed atext that is 3 sms long do you get charged for 3 text messages or 1? or in the case of 02 abroad if the text is 3sms long do you get charged 3 X 4 = 12 messages from your allowance or is it only 4 from it. Would be very interested to know. This is only for 02 users. Thanks

Welliesorter

A single SMS is 160 characters long. Anything over that will be counted as more than one message. If your phone tells you you're on SMS 3, you are really sending three messages with an instruction to join them together when they arrive. It'll be charged as three messages, even though it looks like one long one to you. This applies to all the networks and I don't know any exceptions.

The process of joining messages together in this way is called concatenation. If you send this type of message to someone with an older phone that doesn't support concatenation, they'll receive it as more than one message, with the pieces in reverse order, in their inbox.

I believe Nokia was the first manufacturer to introduce the facility to join messages in this way. It did generate a lot of complaints because not everyone realised that anything over 160 characters was more than one message.

chriswuk_2

If you send a text while roaming, 4 will come out of your bundle.

So, if your phone tells you that you are on text number 3, then 3 x 4 = 12 texts will come out of your bundle