i was boared the other night and korny said somehting about doing somehitng on msn so u can write him free SMS's using msn or somehitng liek that i was drunk at time and cant rember but anyways
now my phone beeps and shit everytime i get a e-mail lol
dose anyone else have this service and dose it cost moneys?
MSN Mobile thing
23 public posts in this discussion.
Post 2
yeah man i got it, no it doesnt cost anything
Post 3
what about if u check ya e-mails ?
u know how u can reply to the sms with h or some thing?
Post 4
ye that cost money
Post 5
oo ok cool
thansk for the help peopel
si there any more functions ?
Post 6
When you enter your phone as a mobile device in MSN options:
From the MSN Mobile bitty *for Optus
Quote:
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3. Optus (and participating Service Provider) Mobile Customers will be charged standard SMS rates for sending and receiving Messages from their Phone, irrespective of whether the message is successfully delivered to, or received by, the intended recipient. For Optus customers, this will be 25c per Message. Service Provider customers should check with their Service Provider for charging details.
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Telstra's has a lot more fine print.
From the MSN Mobile bitty *for Telstra
Quote:
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2 Charges
2.1 All charges you incur from the use of MSN Mobile Messaging will be charged to your Telstra Mobile account as nominated by you in your MSN Mobile Messaging registration. If you subsequently change to another Telstra Mobile account, you can nominate your new account for the MSN Mobile Messaging service at http://sms.ninemsn.com.au.
Messages you send from your mobile handset
2.2 You will be charged for each message you send from your mobile handset using MSN Mobile Messaging at a rate per message per intended recipient, irrespective of whether the message is successfully delivered to, or received by, the intended recipient.
2.3 Messages you send will be charged at standard SMS rates applicable under your Telstra Mobile plan and may be included in your “Included Calls” or “Included SMS” plans if applicable under your contract.
Messages sent to your mobile handset
2.4 For each message that:
(a) is sent to your mobile handset and
(b) is a message type referred to in clause 2.5,
you will be charged at a rate per message of 25 cents (GST inclusive), irrespective of whether the message is successfully delivered to, or received by, you.
2.5 The message types sent to your mobile handset for which you will be charged in accordance with clause 2.4 are:
(a) a Welcome/Initiation message;
(b) a Hotmail alert;
(c) a return Hotmail Inbox;
(d) a return Hotmail message;
(e) a return Hotmail message header;
(f) an Instant Messenger alert; and
(g) a return Contact List.
2.6 As messages sent to your mobile handset may be limited to 153 characters in length (including spaces), the full text of the original Hotmail email or Instant Message may not be deliverable to your mobile handset as one message. Instead, the full text will be broken up into separate messages in order to be sent to you. You will be charged for each separate message sent to your mobile handset.
2.7 Messages will be sent to your mobile handset under the MSN Mobile Messaging service unless disabled or limited by you.
2.8 Messages charged to you in accordance with clauses 2.4 through 2.7 above will not be included in your “Included Calls” or “Included SMS” plans. New World loyalty bonuses cannot be used on charges for messages sent to you using MSN Mobile Messaging.
Post 7
Yeah, it does cost money basically, for every SMS you receive etc. Um... still on topic, has anyone tried the new "Chat" thing on MSN? Apprently you SMS 'CHAT' to some number, then you get a list of rooms, then you sms the room you want to join (eg 'GAMERS-UNDERGROUND') and then I dunno... I can't work the rest out, I guess you get a list of who's in the room, then you sms THEIR name and message to that number, and they get the message and stuff.
Anyone know more about that? A little bit expensive for what it's worth.
Oh and Knight, that thing you have, that's VERY useful if you go out alot, and you're friends are cheap, and they can just type up something in an IM window like "Hey, let's have lunch at blar blar blar and ##:##pm" - I did get it, but thing is. My friends never have anything important to say to me anyway. :roll:
EDIT: Download ICQ Lite and you can send FREE SMS's with that - only about 20 or so per day. That's pretty good.
Quote from ICQ website:
Got ICQ Lite?
Post 8
*wakes up from 2 week coma*
trillian also allows you to send sms to people for free. if you reply you get charged tho
*goes back to sleep*
Post 9
Locutus.... OMG!!!
Now theres a gamer I aint seen in ages :shock:
Welcome back :D
While you can send them via Trillian wouldn't the same rules apply, as its still using the msn network? or am I wrong and it isn't?
Post 10
ICQ is the only sure fire free sms, tha tI know of, another reason to switch to ICQ, god I love ICQ, I'd marry it if it were a woman, and a good looking one at that :wink:
Post 11
man Id get like 25 beeps a day thanx to hotmail spam.
Baad idea :/
Post 12
You can get free sms sending and recieving on icq
Post 13
you can also send free sms off the net at
http://websms.ii.net
Post 14
Bluesky Frog used to be free to send sms's from but now they charge :(
Post 15
icq r0x0rs your b0x0rs.
-D.
Post 16
In the style of Slashdot.
1) Give away free SMS
2) ?
3) Profit!
'cos i'm pretty sure it costs somewhere to send SMS messages (Telephone companies would be unlikely to give it away, if nothing else)
Post 17
Quote from Aravi:
In the style of Slashdot.
1) Give away free SMS
2) ?
3) Profit!
The Underpants Gnomes!
1) Underpants
2) ?
3) Profit
lani.sorry to hijack :wink:
Post 18
so how i turn this bloody msn thing off?
i get too many e-mails mesages now its annoying :(
Post 19
Go to MSN Mobile, and just get you account terminated. It's shut off straight away.
Post 20
Quote from Knight Of Nih:
so how i turn this bloody msn thing off?
i get too many e-mails mesages now its annoying :(
go to "tools" on msn's options, click it, and find the one that say's fone, and follow it till you stop it
Post 21
Quote from Insomnia:
Bluesky Frog used to be free
THEY WHAT!?
Post 22
www.smspup.com.au is okay. they charge a point per message and its only good for nokia phones i think.... but its cheap as hell. you dont have to pay for points, just replay to polls, click email links and tell a friend....
Post 23
I have this and It's great, just set up exclusive filters in hotmail so only the stuff you want to recieve makes it to ur inbox then ur phone only beeps when you get an important e-mail