What is "SMS Message Centre?"

[Anonymous]

I recently came back from a holiday abroad and my bill is a lot higher than expected with most the charges coming from "SMS Message Centre", yet I had charges against individual numbers I texted while abroad.  Can someone please explain what this is?

Thanks

[jonsie · Accepted solution]

Normally overseas texts are all routed through the same message centre number and are listed in the breakdown as 'roaming text messages'. The normal listed messages are those sent within the UK.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for this info.  What's strange though is that there are costs associated with texts sent to some UK numbers in the section for texts sent outside of the UK, along with the cost for SMS Message Centre, but thanks for explaining what this refers to.