The patch that I submitted together with someone from Finland who I don't remember the name of provided an option (CIMD2 patch) if you should set only the first message as a tariffed SM or if all (splitted) messages should be tariffed.
REgards, Stefan Cars On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, DILWORTH MICHAEL wrote: > hi all > > I am looking for some hints, advice, etc. before I jump to quickly into hacking the > kannel code for the following issue. > > We want to charge on MT for individual binaries (ringtones, logos etc). However, we > cant charge on a per message basis because if the binary is large it gets cut and we > have multiple SMS and each one would get charged. Our billing setup is too > complicated to have this change so I am faced with the following alternatives. > > 1. send all MT binary from a non charged short number and then send a final "we have > sent you..blah" MT message from a chargeable short number. > > 2. hack the kannel code so that only the 1st message of a split (binary) is sent > from a chargeable short number. It looks like I can do this inside sms_split > (shared.c) > > from the 2 above the first is the easiest to do (i already have an application that > manages the sending of MT via kannel) but the second is perhaps the most "graceful". > > but i thought it a good idea to ask this forum first, perhaps someone has covered > this issue before, or perhaps there are some unforeseen gotchas! > > tia for any input > > mike >
