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GOwin
Joined: Jan 17, 2002
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Our phones supports this feature, but in the Philippines our networks (Globe and SMART) doesn't support them. 
Just want to know if your network supports them and your feedback/comparison of it versus SMS over SMSCs
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jh67
Joined: Nov 30, 2001
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I use it,..and its very fast indeed 
With gsm you have the "sending message" appear,..and after a while the "message sent".
On gprs you only see the "message sent" part,...the "sending message" you dont really see.
And I dont even pay for it...yet 
Have used it since summer 2001, so I guess that I've saved some money on this
Jan
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trancedancer
Joined: Jan 13, 2002
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Ohhh...I would like to know how it works and how to get it to work!
Let us know more, Jan!
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jh67
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Hehe,..well there isnt really much to say.
You just go to datacomm and put:
"sms via gprs"
You will be able to see if it works with your operator. Just look at the speed of the message being send
Jan
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solo
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how do you mean you dont get charged for it?? surely the time taken to send the sms is added up and you pay that on your tariff no??
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jh67
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Nope
On gprs you dont pay for the time,..you pay in kb
And the operator havent figured out yet, how we should pay,..soooo
Of course I pay for the gprs-account itself, but not the traffic.
When I read my phone-bill, it doesnt say anything about sms-messages at all.
So for now gprs-traffic is free, but it wont last forever
Jan
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radek
Joined: Feb 06, 2002
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On 2002-02-06 20:20, jh67 wrote:
Nope
On gprs you dont pay for the time,..you pay in kb
And the operator havent figured out yet, how we should pay,..soooo
Of course I pay for the gprs-account itself, but not the traffic.
When I read my phone-bill, it doesnt say anything about sms-messages at all.
So for now gprs-traffic is free, but it wont last forever
Jan
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You don't pay for GPRS? 
I pay for kBs - aprox. 0,015 EUR/1 kB.
Radek |
jh67
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Radek : As I wrote earlier, its only a matter of time, before we will.
The operators are working on this, and within the next month, I guess we will be paying for the traffic.
Jan |
radek
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jh67: Yes, I undestood.
But are you testing GPRS for you operator?Because in my country the operators didn't started GPRS until they have solve this payment conditions. They didn't give us any free of charge time (kB).  |
jh67
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No Radek,..I'm not testing for them.
I'm just a normal user, like everybody else.
They released gprs in 2001,..but not a lot of people know/knew that you could send sms via gprs, and not pay for it.
And the operator will say the opposite, when asked this question
They know that they are loosing money right now,..and they are working on a solution.
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Kungen
Joined: Jan 27, 2002
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this dosen't work in Sweden because when we send SMS the message goes via a SMS-central and then to the phone your were ment to send it to |
GOwin
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jh67,
GPRS is still free here in the Philippines. Just like your operators, they haven't figured out how much to charge the users.
Unfortunately, SMS over GPRS is not supported by the networks. And we get charged for SMS sent in excess of our free allocation or if we send them to users of other networks (from US$ 0.019 up to 0.19 cents) |
gobrutz
Joined: Jan 13, 2002
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To jh67:
I activated my GPRS SMS Access and can see that the message is being sent very much faster (especially with the help of the blue bar status indicator). I tried a paralell experiment sending two identical sms (one thru gprs and the other gsm)to the same on site phone and confirmed that the gprs setting works faster. I did this midnight to eliminate possible network traffic bias.
But I can not see any increment in the gprs data counter after sending. I even tried sending with gprs connection on. (reset counter> clear cache> browse wap by gprs> exit browser> Remain connected> check counter> send sms> disconnect> check counter).
Is there any ways we can verify if gprs really works with SMS? |
GOwin
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well, the amount GPRS data you have used should be an indicator whether the SMS had really been sent thru GPRS |
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Posted: 2002-02-06 09:47
