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Unread 13-04-2008, 23:54
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Re: [TBA]: Info sent to cell phone...
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Originally Posted by blakcheez View Post
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but when I had T-Mobile, what would happen with a extra-large TM came (or I tried to send one), it would count it as two or more. As in, T-Mobile's limit is 160 characters, I believe. So a 300-character text will come in counting as two messages. Just something to consider.

Maybe research all the major carriers' character limit and use the lowest one as the maximum for the outgoing messages.
The reason for that is the maximum length of a SMS message payload is 160 7-bit characters. Longer messages are combined into multiple payload deliveries, reassembled by the phone. Two messages together may send up to 306 7-bit characters, since there is a 40-bit header if you split up the message.
Last edited by Nibbles : 13-04-2008 at 23:56. Reason: Did my research, 40 bits not 7
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