On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:29:23PM +0100, Jörg Pommnitz wrote: > Juan Enrique Gómez wrote: > > I think he referes to the GPRS traffic to download the content. > That's my point. You don't usually pay for the GPRS traffic to download > a MMS message. It's the sender who pays. Receiving a MMS message is > free according to the billing information available on the sites of the > network operators here in Germany. > I think this is one of the reasons network operators use a different APN > for the MMS network. It keeps the billing records cleanly separated between > MMS and "normal" GPRS traffic.
In the UK they use a different APN but zero the billing (I believe) to their OWN MMSCs. If the content is fetched from another MMSC (if they allow it, Orange don't) the user gets billed. Steve -- NetTek Ltd Phone/Fax +44-(0)20 7483 2455 SMS steve-pager (at) gbnet.net [body] gpg 1024D/468952DB 2001-09-19
