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?
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