Data usage and text mesaging

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#8617 15-Jul-2006 15:53

For sending a text message on a Apache, is it using data that is count towards the data plan?

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#41176 15-Jul-2006 16:13

It didn't on my HTC Harrier so it will most likely not

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#41177 15-Jul-2006 16:38

No SMS is seperate from data

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#41178 15-Jul-2006 17:01

That is what I thought, but a Telecom CSR told me that Apache can text message can using either data network or voice network. And it will incur chargers to use the data network. I think he meant 1xRTT and EVDO network. Maybe he was trying to get me into a data plan?

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#41179 15-Jul-2006 17:10

Lol, sounds like the CSR didnt know what they were talking about. Might have been confused with MMS which on the Apache is actually sent via email so will incur data charges

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#41181 15-Jul-2006 18:05

Certainly not through data...

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#41762 16-Jul-2006 01:14

STI: That is what I thought, but a Telecom CSR told me that Apache can text message can using either data network or voice network. And it will incur chargers to use the data network. I think he meant 1xRTT and EVDO network. Maybe he was trying to get me into a data plan?

Probably what he was trying to say, is that you can text, whether you have a data plan, a voice plan, or both.
Unless you have a voice plan that qualifies for $10 text, then all texts go through at 20c.