Delivery Reports

divine` · 17 Dec 2006 at 00:42

Greetings

I find the delivery report feature of my K800i a wonderfully useful thing, given it's handy to know whether people have actually received your messages.

However a friend on Orange contract has noticed that he gets charged 0.09p per report.

I was wondering, because I get either 300/600/1000 free texts (on Orange PAYG) per month, do these reports use up one of my free texts everytime I send a message?

Any help greatly appreciated

Sincerely, Rich

Dolph · 17 Dec 2006 at 07:54

At the moment, delivery report charges only apply to pay monthly customers on plans available after 1st april 2005. PAYG customers are currently not subject to these charges.

smokedog · 17 Dec 2006 at 12:45

Orange has started charging for text reports... the robbing gits! :eek:

Ste · 17 Dec 2006 at 14:44

what?!

better turn them off lol

divine` · 17 Dec 2006 at 15:21

Dolph said:
At the moment, delivery report charges only apply to pay monthly customers on plans available after 1st april 2005. PAYG customers are currently not subject to these charges.

Okely dokely, thank you very much Dolph

djcj · 17 Dec 2006 at 15:47

smokedog said:
Orange has started charging for text reports... the robbing gits!

Yeah, how dare a company charge for a service :rolleyes:

A2Z · 17 Dec 2006 at 18:48

wow never heard of being charged for a delivery report LOL

shamus21 · 17 Dec 2006 at 21:36

orange sure love putting holes in a sinking ship.

A2Z · 17 Dec 2006 at 23:45

isnt there still some companies that charge you to listen to your voicemail? lol

Strikeforce · 17 Dec 2006 at 23:49

A2Z said:
isnt there still some companies that charge you to listen to your voicemail? lol

Most companies do charge for listening to voice mail :confused:

....

I only know of T mobile that don't.

Hot Sponge · 18 Dec 2006 at 00:09

Strikeforce said:
Most companies do charge for listening to voice mail ....

I only know of T mobile that don't.

Sorry to say......T-Mobile do charge for voicemail.

Don't think Virgin do though.

Strikeforce · 18 Dec 2006 at 13:48

Hot Sponge said:
Sorry to say......T-Mobile do charge for voicemail.

Don't think Virgin do though.

I thinking of the days when it was one 2 one, I don't think they did, but as I was trying to say, most companies do charge for voicemail.

JAMAL · 18 Dec 2006 at 18:14

Dolph said:
At the moment, delivery report charges only apply to pay monthly customers on plans available after 1st april 2005. PAYG customers are currently not subject to these charges.

The reason i left orange this year and went back to O2.

NeilMick · 18 Dec 2006 at 22:54

O2 dont do delivery reports unless you put some stupid code in before the text message characters..

smokedog · 18 Dec 2006 at 23:05

djcj said:
Yeah, how dare a company charge for a service

I consider text reports a simlar service to caller ID. Anyway, isn't technology suppost to get cheaper. My monthly bill is simlar of that of 10 years ago.

Stocky · 19 Dec 2006 at 08:53

NeilMick said:
O2 dont do delivery reports unless you put some stupid code in before the text message characters..

Hi mate, what would that code be?? I do find delivery reports useful for important texts & have missed them since moving to O2.

Dolph · 19 Dec 2006 at 09:32

smokedog said:
I consider text reports a simlar service to caller ID. Anyway, isn't technology suppost to get cheaper. My monthly bill is simlar of that of 10 years ago.

Except it's nothing like caller ID. Caller ID is a service with no technology overhead, hence it's rather cheeky (IMO) to charge for it.

Delivery reports, on the other hand, do have a technology overhead, their existance and use increases the amount of traffic quite substantially (think double) for a given number of SMS messages sent.

When you send a text with delivery reports on, the SMC has to send two messages (the Original message to the recipent and the message for confirmation to the sender) rather than one. Now consider that literally millions of texts are sent per day, that's a significant increase in network traffic, and capacity needed to carry it (when looked at in full).

So, to compare SMS reports to caller ID is false, because Caller ID being present does not effect the total amount of traffic moving, whereas delivery reports do, quite significantly. Remember any mobile network has a finite traffic limit at any given time.

PrOdiGy1 · 19 Dec 2006 at 10:00

Stocky said:
Hi mate, what would that code be?? I do find delivery reports useful for important texts & have missed them since moving to O2.

ditto....

Magic_x_uk · 19 Dec 2006 at 12:38

I believe it is.

*0# (star,zero,hash,space) before the text message you send and it will return a report and there is no charge.

Just did a google and found it!

PrOdiGy1 · 19 Dec 2006 at 12:45

Magic_x_uk said:
I believe it is.

*0# (star,zero,hash,space) before the text message you send and it will return a report and there is no charge.

Just did a google and found it!

i just tried doing this but i dont know how to get a star into my messages