Colin Law wrote: > 2009/10/2 Marnen Laibow-Koser <[email protected]>: >>> >>> I'll see your 5 minutes and raise it another 10. >>> That information includes paid for services. The Vodaphone service >>> for example is, I believe, not free >> >> How does that work? You send e-mail to the appropriate address at >> vodafone.co.uk -- then what? Does Vodafone reply with a request for your >> credit card number? > > No it is the recipient that pays, he/she has to register with > vodaphone to be able to receive sms from email and then he gets > charged for receipt.
I see. That still means that it's free for the sender, though. We have it a little different here: we don't have to register -- the feature is on by default. > >> Well, at least on the US model, they still do make money because the >> recipient still pays for receipt. > > Do you get charged for receiving SMS normally then? We only get > charged for sending unless subscribed to some chargeable system. Yes, the US cellular industry generally works on a shared-cost model, whereas I understand many European countries use caller pays all. So we are charged for airtime on all calls, and for all SMS messages sent or received. (However, calls and SMS messages within the same carrier's network are free of charge in most cases.) The advantage of this, of course, is that it costs the same to place a call to a US mobile phone as to a landline -- the mobile recipient basically pays the difference in cost. And unlike in some other countries, you don't automatically know whether a phone number is mobile or not just by looking at the area code. > > Colin Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
