topic Re: Picture messages in Pay Monthly

Picture messages

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 22:49:28 GMT

Hi

I just found out that it has cost me 30p to send a picture message to a mate.

Now I don't care about the money but surely it's data and therefore comes under my data plan?!

Cheers

Re: Picture messages

Cleoriff — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 23:03:35 GMT

We have had a lot of complaints about this recently but it is down to texts being converted to MMS ...An explanation here

http://community.o2.co.uk/t5/Other-Products-Services/Accidental-MMS-Sending-and-How-to-Avoid-it/td-p/689503

Including smilies and emoticons can be a cause of this also

Re: Picture messages

MI5 — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 23:02:54 GMT

Sadly no, it doesn't come off your data as the tech is so old it runs on the old wap system.

Re: Picture messages

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 23:14:24 GMT

Any photos sent by me are always by email or BBM and if possible over wifi.

Re: Picture messages

Cleoriff — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 23:47:35 GMT

What about group texts? More than 5 counts as MMS or so I believe. Also as I said previously adding smilies or emoticons to a text will convert it to MMS. If a text is longer than 460 characters....it will convert to MMS

Re: Picture messages

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 07:36:01 GMT

You will always be charged for sending a pic via MMS. It is an outdated way of doing it now, and slow.

Either e-mail it, or use apps like Whatsapp, Viber, Kik, OOvoo, BBM etc etc.

Re: Picture messages

Poppysmum — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 15:45:09 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Hi

I just found out that it has cost me 30p to send a picture message to a mate.

Now I don't care about the money but surely it's data and therefore comes under my data plan?!

Cheers

You are lucky i got charged 33p and mum didnt even know she had received the picture til day after when i told her when she rang me. I did know i would be charged but mum asked me to send her the picture when i received it.

I have told mum if i send with whatsapp its free to send pictures but she wont turn internet on even though she got 500MB

Re: Picture messages

jonsie — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 15:48:39 GMT

It took me a lot of effort just to get my mother to turn on the phone at all and my dear wife would never switch data on even though she worked for O2

Re: Picture messages

Poppysmum — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 16:23:49 GMT

@jonsie wrote:
It took me a lot of effort just to get my mother to turn on the phone at all and my dear wife would never switch data on even though she worked for O2

My mum got an s3 mini on contract with Tesco and a Nokia 5800 on o2 pay and go and she calls both phones stupid lol. Its not the phones its her and the reception in her flat.

My phone pleases itself if signal will work in her flat. Only place i struggle with my phone lol.

Re: Picture messages

paulbacon — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 18:07:12 GMT

Surely its only a matter of time before MMS die off? With the likes of Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger, why pay to send an mms

Be interesting to see if texts are slowly declining. I send very few now instead just use IM apps

Re: Picture messages

MI5 — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 18:16:36 GMT

MMS should be stopped IMHO but they make money for the networks, so it's unlikely.
SMS are now mostly free as most tariffs come with unlimited anyway.
Data is the expensive part of contracts as that is what is used the most these days so demand is high for it....

Re: Picture messages

paulbacon — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 18:24:56 GMT

And the only real money spinner for the networks

Re: Picture messages

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 18:46:12 GMT

Saw this in the news earlier http://thenextweb.com/future-of-communications/2015/02/16/people-still-using-sms-2015/