topic Re: Text Message Character Limit in Pay Monthly

Text Message Character Limit

MajB1 — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 09:31:18 GMT

Does anyone know if there is a character limit on a text sent to Ireland. Thanks

Re: Text Message Character Limit

MI5 — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 09:38:37 GMT

One text is 160 characters regardless of where it's sent to. Often phones will combine 3 texts to give 480 characters before converting to an MMS message.
https://community.o2.co.uk/t5/How-to-Guides/Accidental-MMS-Sending-and-How-to-Avoid-it/ba-p/1014132

Re: Text Message Character Limit

MajB1 — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 20:00:45 GMT

Thanks for the response. If that’s the case it looks like I may have been over charged for some of my texts... I will look into it further.

Re: Text Message Character Limit

Anonymous — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 20:05:19 GMT

@MajB1

If you exceed the 160 limit (say for example your text came out at 200 characters including spaces) it would likely count as two texts.

Re: Text Message Character Limit

MI5 — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 20:08:45 GMT

@MajB1 wrote:
Thanks for the response. If that’s the case it looks like I may have been over charged for some of my texts... I will look into it further.

No problem. Hopefully all explained in the link above for you?