do you get charged for an sms if you dont open it?

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do you get charged for an sms if you dont open it?

for example i send a lot of text messages to europe, where it's 20 cents a message..so if i send and get a reply, that's 40 cents in one pop

i have an international text messaging plan with 100 texts for 10 bucks but i definitely exceed it by a lot since most of my family and friends live in europe

the good parts about the iphone sms is that you have the preview when it says TEXT MESSAGE RECEIVED..but often, the preview is more than enough to see what the other person is trying to tell me

for example if ask my cousin a yes/no question and he replies YES, i dont need to open that sms, since i see his answer in the preview, so i just delete the message altogether...or if he writes WHERE R U? again, i can see his whole message without having to open his meesage

this comes in handy when i send 500 messages to europe at 20 cents per message expecially when 75% of their replies can be seen in the preview..if i do the math, it adds up 🙂

thanks

Message was edited by: Apercele79

Message was edited by: Apercele79

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Posted on Oct 28, 2007 6:07 PM

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gdgmacguy

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Oct 28, 2007 6:11 PM in response to Apercele79

I believe you do get charged. You might want to verify this information by calling AT&T to be sure.

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Oct 28, 2007 6:26 PM in response to Apercele79

Apercele79 wrote:
for example if ask my cousin a yes/no question and he replies YES, i dont need to open that sms, since i see his answer in the preview, so i just delete the message altogether...or if he writes WHERE R U? again, i can see his whole message without having to open his meesage

not the answer you want... but yes you get charged for the above reason alone

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Geffen

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Oct 28, 2007 6:27 PM in response to Apercele79

It really varies as to what plan you are on with the iPhone i would definately call AT&T to confirm, on the $59.99 a month plan 200 txt messages are included.

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M. R.

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Oct 28, 2007 6:31 PM in response to Geffen

once it enters your phone it's yours! It counts!

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Apercele79 Author

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Oct 30, 2007 8:46 AM in response to M. R.

very disappointing news.. 🙂

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DaVBMan

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Oct 30, 2007 8:55 AM in response to Apercele79

Use email instead. Data plan is unlimited.

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MobileDev

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Oct 30, 2007 11:06 AM in response to Apercele79

Yes, the phone has already received it. That's why you can see the first piece of it.

Your desire reminds me of when I was young and long distance was very expensive. So people came up with a couple of work arounds.

For example, if you knew a baby was due, you'd arrange by letter that once it came, you'd call and ring once for a boy, twice for a girl, and then hang up. Trucking companies used the "ring count" method extensively for letting their dispatcher know where they were, etc. Phone companies hated it.

Another common scheme that required a bit of operator cooperation at times, was to call collect with a bogus name. For example, "Hi I'd like to call Klondike 1234 in Houston Texas, collect please. My name is Miss You." Or "My name is Itza Boya" Or just a code name like "Bill Oscar Young" that meant or spelled out ("boy") something.

When the recipient got the collect call, they'd listen to the name for the hidden message, then refuse the call.

Such were the early days.

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