Solved: Re: Billing

Anonymous · ‎07-01-2014

Hi can someone help. I've a monthly contract have been for many years unlimited texts etc but have been charged for texts over Xmas and new year. Have I missed any new info. Any help would be appreciated

MI5 · ‎07-01-2014

If you sent them as MMS rather than SMS (ie to groups of people) you will be charged as they do not come out of your allowance.

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MI5 · ‎07-01-2014

If you sent them as MMS rather than SMS (ie to groups of people) you will be charged as they do not come out of your allowance.

I have no affiliation whatsoever with O2 or any subsidiary companies. Comments posted are entirely of my own opinion. This is not Customer Service so we are unable to help with account specific issues.
Please select the post that helped you best and mark as the solution. This helps other members in resolving their issues faster. Thank you.

Anonymous · ‎07-01-2014

If you've been charged 35p per message, that's an MMS charges, like said by MI5, not included in your allowance unfortunately

perksie · ‎07-01-2014

MI5 is right and you can see the reasons here:

http://service.o2.co.uk/IQ/srvs/cgi-bin/webcgi.exe?New,KB=Companion,T=guruCase,VARSET_COBJID=52283,P...

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gemz4the1 · ‎07-01-2014

I recently learned that if you send a text but add a smiley face or other icon to it, then it will almost always go through as a MMS even if you don't think it is the general MMS format (a picture).

See more information here:

http://service.o2.co.uk/IQ/srvs/cgi-bin/webcgi.exe?New,KB=Companion,T=guruCase,VARSET_COBJID=52283,P...)

MI5 · ‎07-01-2014

You can turn off MMS auto conversion in settings. Also, on an iPhone turn off the subject field option and don't send any sms to email addresses.

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