Being stung MMS charge for sending a URL

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Aucklandjafa

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#312888 27-May-2024 10:00

Gidday,

I just got my monthly account, and low and behold, I’ve got several charges for sending Trade me URLs to Android phones (from iPhone). Haven’t really noticed this in the past. Is this something the iPhone has recently changed with somehow converting to an MMS, or is Spark just trying to find a new rev streams? Pretty average nonetheless.

If anyone knows how to get around this/why it’s happening, that’d be greatly appreciated.

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#3235164 27-May-2024 10:25

Length is probably going over 160 chars so converting to an MMS to send the longer message?

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#3235166 27-May-2024 10:28

SparkNZ is only billing for what the handset is sending. Not related to Sparks revenue streams in anyway at all

Aucklandjafa

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#3235170 27-May-2024 10:49

mentalinc:

Length is probably going over 160 chars so converting to an MMS to send the longer message?

Nah, well short than 160 chars. And texts don't get turned into MMS until they've reached 5 messages (800 chars)

Aucklandjafa

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#3235171 27-May-2024 10:50

Linux:

SparkNZ is only billing for what the handset is sending. Not related to Sparks revenue streams in anyway at all

Yeah, I figured, still pretty shite nonetheless. No doubt it's an iPhone thing, but assuming something's changed in the last couple of months.

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#3235175 27-May-2024 11:04

I leave MMS off for this reason.

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#3235176 27-May-2024 11:04

Something could of changed in a iOS update

Aucklandjafa

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#3235178 27-May-2024 11:06

boosacnoodle:

I leave MMS off for this reason.

Yep, just turned it off, sent a link to my work phone and it went through all good!

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Aucklandjafa

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#3235179 27-May-2024 11:07

Linux: Something could of changed in a iOS update

My thoughts exactly

cddt

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#3235202 27-May-2024 12:26

Linux: Something could of changed in a iOS update

Interesting, last month I had a 40 cents charge for "2 Text Service" which I have no idea what it is.

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Aucklandjafa

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#3235203 27-May-2024 12:27

cddt:

Linux: Something could of changed in a iOS update

Interesting, last month I had a 40 cents charge for "2 Text Service" which I have no idea what it is.

Those sound like premium texts. Everytime I text to confirm an appointment, it's 20c a text

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#3235218 27-May-2024 13:18

Aucklandjafa:

Those sound like premium texts. Everytime I text to confirm an appointment, it's 20c a text

That's new. Pretty sure I didn't pay for those before.

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#3235221 27-May-2024 13:27

Aucklandjafa:

Everytime I text to confirm an appointment, it's 20c a text

Thats why I refuse to do that and instead call them since that's free for me. Absurd to not have a link to confirm things in an SMS.

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#3235222 27-May-2024 13:27

@cddt 99% of Short codes charge for the reply and always have

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#3235279 27-May-2024 14:55

cddt:
Interesting, last month I had a 40 cents charge for "2 Text Service" which I have no idea what it is.

If you're on iPhone, this could be iMessage verification

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#3235309 27-May-2024 16:42

In a day and age where almost every plan has unlimited calling and texting to any cell/landline in AU/NZ, it baffles me that short code sms replies and MMS are still priced like Theresa Gattung was still in charge.

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