On Mon, Aug 06, 2012, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote about "Re: sms via icq with the new mobile companies": > >In Israel, you *do not* pay for incoming SMSs - it is the sender that > >pays for them. > > Sorry, that's wrong. Until recently you paid for incoming SMSs too.
No, I believe that *this* statement is wrong. I've had Israeli cellphones for the last 18 years, from 4 different providers and many different deals, good bad and ugly - and not once did I ever hear of anyone getting charged of incoming anything - not incoming calls and not incoming SMSs. I don't know what I am missing... I never heard from anyone else of any plan (in Israel) which charges for incoming SMSs. Has anybody else on the list heard of such a plan? Maybe I've been living under a rock? > If you had a plan from before then you were charged. I found that > out the hard (expensive) way. I don't know what I (or you...) are missing here... Either you were defrauded by incoming "service" SMSs like I suggested in my previous mail, or alternatively you got these SMSs while you were abroad, which does cost money even for incoming SMSs (although I think you would have noticed if that's the case...). > started dating a girl with no internet coverage at home. After we > put a stop to their calling, they sent hundreds of SMSs through a > free site. > > It wasn't until a month later that I was reminded of the plan we had. I'd be suspicious that this "free" site was actually a fraud site, which charged the receiver real money at the pretext of being a free service. Unless you're really sure you had this terrible plan, the only plan in Israel which also charged for incoming SMSs... -- Nadav Har'El | Monday, Aug 6 2012, 19 Av 5772 n...@math.technion.ac.il |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Boat: A hole in the water surrounded by http://nadav.harel.org.il |wood into which one pours money. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il