Looking at the PXTs on my phone, they were about kilobytes in size; tiny low-resolution files compared with the multi-megabyte images smartphone cameras take. A wave of nostalgia swept over me as I looked at those figures. I remembered the bad old days when using your mobile phone was playing Russian roulette with bankruptcy. What fun that was. On a more serious note, don't use MMS if you can help it.
The feature is usually turned on by default though, so make sure you go to the settings panel on your smartphone and switch it off. Otherwise, you might find that group texts which you thought were sent as SMS texts become MMS messages, and charged accordingly. Ditto emojis, which are even more annoying to send and receive at 50c if the messages are converted to MMS. Presumably, the high profit margins on MMS mean there's little incentive for telcos to dump the service as they race to the bottom to become dumb pipe carriers, and desperately try to eke out more revenue from their networks while they still can.
On some phones you can clearly see when this happens - for example, you might see a character count changing to a file size. Some phones let you switch this function off, or enable you to set up an alert when it happens. You'll need to check the manual or go to the support website for your phone to see to do.
Ask the BT Community. Contact us. Help and support Account and billing I'm being charged for texts when I thought they were included in my plan. I'm being charged for texts when I thought they were included in my plan. Typically, phones will convert text messages into picture messages when: you send a group text message your text has a non-standard smiley or symbol such as an emoticon or emoji your text goes over the character limit on some phones this is characters, but on others it's more you add text to the subject field On some phones you can clearly see when this happens - for example, you might see a character count changing to a file size.
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