SMS messages as MMS

Guest2 · 17 Oct 2012 at 15:44

Called Tesco mobile customer care and have been credited £15. (8 messages went to email addresses) I think all the others to mobiles then had to be sent as MMS instead of MMS.

Trying to sort something like this with other companies would have been nigh on impossible

tom_e · 17 Oct 2012 at 15:52

Especially as it's nothing to do with them, you got a very good result.

Guest2 · 17 Oct 2012 at 16:07

tom_e said:
Especially as it's nothing to do with them, you got a very good result.

The reason I have stuck with Tesco for so long. You can always get straight through to someone who speaks English and sorts you out.

I have been with Orange, Vodafone and o2. All terrible customer service

Bradmax57 · 18 Oct 2012 at 00:01

Guest2 said:
The reason I have stuck with Tesco for so long. You can always get straight through to someone who speaks English and sorts you out.

I have been with Orange, Vodafone and o2. All terrible customer service

Ive been with tesco for a little over a month now, cant fault their value but their knowledge sucks, fortunately im on 30 day rolling, definately thinking of swapping over to virgin, o2 reception for 2g and 3g in comparison to orange (that i used to be with) is shocking

Orcvader · 18 Oct 2012 at 00:15

Musty Pie said:
Whatsapp

get it problem solved.

+1

I think I have too many group convos...

mrochester · 18 Oct 2012 at 13:41

The iPhone doesn't have a limit on how many messages you can send; no matter how long your text is, it'll be sent as multiple SMS messages. Also, many multiple recipients also doesn't cause a message to change to an MMS. The only place where I've come across a software coded limit on the number of SMS messages you can send is on Samsung Android phones which automatically turns a text that is more than 3 messages long into an MMS. The iPhone definitely doesn't do this.

Guest2 · 18 Oct 2012 at 13:45

6 of the messages went to emails though - I think if for example I sent an SMS to a mobile number and an email address, the one to email would have to go as MMS, forcing the other to send as MMS too

mrochester · 18 Oct 2012 at 13:47

Guest2 said:
6 of the messages went to emails though - I think if for example I sent an SMS to a mobile number and an email address, the one to email would have to go as MMS, forcing the other to send as MMS too

That's probably the case. Messages to email addresses will definitely go as an MMS.

Guest2 · 18 Oct 2012 at 22:57

mrochester said:
That's probably the case. Messages to email addresses will definitely go as an MMS.

Whats retarded, why can't it send data (from one of my listed email address in 'You can be reached')

mrochester · 19 Oct 2012 at 06:35

Guest2 said:
Whats retarded, why can't it send data (from one of my listed email address in 'You can be reached')

You can, you just send the emails as emails rather than as texts.

Richie · 19 Oct 2012 at 07:45

If you send an SMS to an email address, it is converted to MMS. As mrochester says, you need to send an email not an SMS if you want it to go as email.

This is how SMS (MMS) to emails have always worked since MMS has been invented. It is not a handset issue.