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We all know that anyone can send SMS to anyone, right? Unfortunately a lot of phones in the market do not have the ability to block SMS from people who are NOT in your phone book, thus when you get SMS from strangers, you still get charged.
I call T-Mobile asking them to remove some of these charges, but they told me 'sorry, we are unable to issue you credit for these charges, but we could change you number for a fee of $15'. I can't believe T-Mobile is unwilling to help their customers in situation like this.
I wish there are more carriers out there to choose from, beside T-Mobile & Cingular. The fact that they have half of the GSM market makes them hard to deal with.
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Posted: 2006-03-01 21:39:08
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have to admit mate that does round pretty poor to me-however, i'm more shocked cv the fact you get charged for receiving sms! here go europe it's free!
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Posted: 2006-03-01 21:49:20
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Ditto, i never thought there would be a charge on recieving them. Just out of curiosity, what is the charge for recieving? is it the same for sending?
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Posted: 2006-03-01 22:01:53
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it could have changed but last I checked it was 5cents for both sending and receiveing them with t-mob. When I was with at&t sending them was 10 cents but receiveing them was free, so I figure that it would even out in the end unless like you, you are getting unwanted messages then that is a problem. It must be quite a few for them to add up to a considerable amount at 5 cents a shot though.
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Posted: 2006-03-02 16:11:31
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Thats quite a considerable amount just for sending and recieving sms.
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Posted: 2006-03-02 17:09:45
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Ridiculous..how on earth is a mobile network charging you for receiving text messages.
All over the world it's free...I suppose American networks also charge you for receiving calls, on top of that there's probably a charge for line rental?
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Posted: 2006-03-02 17:46:31
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@ sfaguy
I’m a T-Mobile subscriber, I don’t recall being charged of any in-coming SMS. Checked your statement it could be a MMS download. With-in the basic plan you shouldn’t be charge at all not unless you are over your spending limit or SMS is not part of your Plan (10 cents per SMS) or Sending International messages.
Pre-paid or Plan (with basic SMS) any incoming SMS or MMS is FREE of charge.
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Posted: 2006-03-03 19:33:29
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Hello all,
Thanks for taking time to response to my posting.
1. YES, T-Mobile charges both incoming and outgoing SMS. I used to have the $2.99/month plan way back when for 300 SMS for domestic and international SMS. Then T-mobile start charging 0.15 per interntional SMS, so I dropped the plan.
Now I hardly send SMS, even though it only cost 0.5 cents for incoming and outgoing. I do get incoming from friends and there is a 0.5 charge each.
I agree with everyone that incoming SMS should be free. Simply because, my original complaint, that one can not block incoming SMS, thus why should we be paying for something we have no control over.
All the US carriers should get their act together like other countries and to implement to make incoming calls & SMS FREE OF CHARGE.
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Posted: 2006-03-05 23:13:09
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