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Can anyone enlighten me as to what a media message is, I have just noticed that I have been billed an extra £1.87 for media messages , I have checked the numbers stated and can honestly say the messages were text message and not media, anyone else having this issue. Tried contacting O 2 but surprise surprise network down.

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If you send texts to email addresses they will go as an MMS, even if it's just one character.
Why not just email an email address ?
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@Anonymous wrote:
Text messages can be up to 164 characters.

Shouldn't that be 160 characters?

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Sorry guys I work in finance so maths not my strong point.

160 & 480 is correct
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Sorry guys I work in finance so maths not my strong point.

That makes sense!!! Angel

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Bit like being an MP and politics not your strong point! Mind you we have one of thoseWeird

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Think yourself lucky you could live abroad and have to contend with the politics in somewhere like Thailand.........Oh hang on a mo..ConfusedConfused

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Is media message a scam,today i was charged almost £15 on my phone,when I rang O2,i was told that any text more then120 words will be charged as media message,this is not on.O2 told me today they will send information re media message on my email but as yet i have not received anthing ,i rang them more then 2 hours before.I donot have time to do long text,not sure where this long text is coming from,I will monitor all my text next month,I also went back to check all my text in last 1year and never seems to have long text or been charged as media message.Hoping o2 will come back to be on this.

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