Lurch wrote:
strung together this:
receiving text messages....normally costs

Where did you get this information from? I think you may have been
misled.

Yes & No. Reverse billed SMS is around but you are unlikely to encounter it
unless you have a habit of voting for contestants on tv reality shows. You
pay the standard message price to send your vote (MO - mobile originated),
then pay the premium to receive the confirmation (MT - mobile terminated).
This varies from 10p to 150p under various revenue share agreements. There
are no current consumer tariffs, or pre-pay deals where receipt of MO SMS is
charged for.

It can get quite complex to bill premium SMS when done internationally.

--
Toby. (ex telecoms billing dev.)

'One day son, all this will be finished'