iMessage sending sms to UK

I had the same problem. It appeared to send an SMS to the UK whenever I tried to activate iMessage. Once I turned this feature off, the UK SMS' stopped.

I called Apple support about this but after being left on hold for over an hour, and talking to 3 people who had no idea whatsoever about how their own product works, I gave up.

Same problem here in Spain. Mi iPhone 3GS sent 16 SMS to UK over four days, at 0,60€ each one (+tax). The first one was sent just after installing iOS 5 (that's OK), but the rest were sent with no reason. From the sending times I can see that a SMS was sent whenever I took my iPhone from airplane mode early each morning, but the iPhone kept on sending more SMS after that, and without any intervention on my part.

My carrier (a MVNO) is Euskaltel, which uses the Vodafone network, and works flawlessly with my iPhone for both voice and data. Since it is not one of the "officially" supported carriers (which are Movistar, Vodafone and Orange in Spain), there are no specific carrier settings (Settings->General->Information->Carrier shows "Carrier 11.0"). I wonder if this fact could be related to this problem.

¡Apple, you owe me 11,20€!

I am in Australia Thierr1. I am with a non-iPhone carrier. This link regarding the iOS beta seems to point to iMessage as the culprit:

http://leimobile.com/imessage-waiting-for-activation/

iMessage does get activated on my iPhone, including the phone number. The problem is that it gets deactivated randomly after that, and then it tries to reactivate itself again, sending another SMS. And that happens over and over again.

After being hit by this problem, I activated iMessage again, and when the alert "Your carrier may charge for SMS messages used to activate iMessage" appeared, I tapped "Cancel". Then the activation proceeded anyway, but only for receiving iMessages at my e-mail address(es). I cannot receive iMessages sent to my phone number, but iMessage works fine otherwise. No more SMS and no more random deactivations.

Has anyone figured out a solution to this problem? other than having the phone send iMessage to an email? I too have 4 United Kingdom messages and they actually do correspond with every iMessage that I sent.

Im having the same problem.

Im with orange espana

I have been charged 21.90 for sms send to the UK and Spain using imessage

I had the same problem. I'm in UK. O2 charged me 0.51pound for some reason such as i was sending some message to another country.

I have just upgraded to an iPhone 4S from my previous 3GS, using the same SIM (a micro SIM duplicated from the original SIM I was using with the 3GS), and after restoring the backup and activating both iMessage and FaceTime on the new 4S everything worked fine. I only got the initial warning about the possible charges for the needed SMS.

Maybe this problem only happens when using an iPhone 3G/3GS? That should be really weird.

I also, have an iPhone 3GS on iOS 5 in France with Numericable as carrier and Bouygues as network.

iMessage activation didn't work on my iPhone and I've been billed for 82 SMS sent to a UK number (0044753741XXXX). It seems to come from the iMessage activation process that failed many times.

Numericable is very fair and promises to get me the money back but... take care

Hi!

Just want to post - I have the same problem here in Austria with the provider "bob".

I have one SMS to the UK Number +447537410... on my bill.

And I'm absolutely sure - I did not write an SMS to an UK number on that day.

greetings

michael

Just had the same problem with simyo here in Germany.

Both the carrier and Apple refused to refund the money

Have switched iMessage and FaceTime off......

I have the same problem.

BOB and SMS to +447537410XXX.