torsdag 21. august 2003, 09:57, skrev DILWORTH MICHAEL: > 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.
Why can't you split the cost between the messages? If the price for a ringtone is 1 euro but it must be split into two messages, can't you bill those two messages 0,5 euro each? -- Med vennlig hilsen, Eurobate ASA Arne K. Haaje Senior Network Engineer -------------------------------------------------------------------- Eurobate ASA - Postboks 4589 Nydalen - 0404 Oslo - Norway Phone: +47 23 22 73 73 - Fax: +47 23 22 73 74 - Mob: +47 92 88 44 66 http://www.eurobate.com/