Sieghard To follow-up the $5 worth of charges on my bill were for texting a regular mobile phone whose user lives in New Zealand. I get charged 25 cents per call. I recall the person at the other end saying that she got charged ten cents a call. Meanwhile she has learned to use her iphone so that is good. Now texting between our 2 phones is free.
On Aug 30, 2015, at 7:51 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: My guess is that your accidental call to your friend in New Zealand was not a Facetime call but went as a regular phone call. Once again, Facetime or Facetime Audio calls go via data and use either your 3G or LTE data allowance or use WiFi if you are connected to a WiFi. If you or the other person has no WiFi connection or have cellular data turned off the call simply fails, but there is no way a carrier would bill you for the call. You may get billed for going over your monthly cellular data allowance if you use a lot of data, but just like when you make a Skype call to another Skype user, the call itself is free. MMS stands for “multimedia messaging service” and they are messages which can contain media like pictures, video and so on. iMessages are basically advanced MMS messages between iOS users as they can contain all sorts of media and have no character limit. Also, iMessages are free whereas your carrier may charge for MMS messages. Here is the basic description from Wikipedia. Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) is a standard way to send messages that include multimedia content to and from mobile phones. It extends the core SMS (Short Message Service) capability that allowed exchange of text messages only up to 160 characters in length. The most popular use is to send photographs from camera-equipped handsets. It is also used on a commercial basis by media companies as a method of delivering news and entertainment content and by retail brands as a tool for delivering scannable coupon codes, product images, videos and other information. Unlike text only SMS, commercial MMS can deliver a variety of media including up to forty seconds of video, one image, multiple images via slideshow or audio plus unlimited characters. Regards, Sieghard -- The following information is important for all members of the VIPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your VIPhone list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
