thanks to all who got involved in this. I have certainly learnt much more about the issue now. excellent!
a quick summary:
I needed to have the split use different from numbers for billing reasons. We wanted to bill binary (ringtone and logos) on MT, but because of the splitting issue we were in danger of charging for every message. As charges are stated to the user simply, for example 1 euro per ringtone, it would have been messy to fix this. I also work for the carrier and my comments our billing systems were treated in typical telco style.. we arnt very flexible.. anyway.. the idea was to send the first of the split from a chargeable number and the rest from a non charging number.. simple if it works. Also this would work well with our prepaid customers.
As we cant do this now we are faced with 2 more options.
1. send a chargeable "ping" message to the user. if this gets delivered ok then send the binary from a free short code.
2. implement MO charging.
option 2 is the favourite here as it seems to be the established way of doing it.
thanks to all
mike
