Its Optarse getting its revenge, stupid.

Hello,

It sounds like a SMS that is in 8bit (ringtones, logos, etc) or 16bit
(unicode, as in foreign characters) that for some reason your phone cannot
decode. It could be malformed or using foreign characters such as Chinese
that your phone is unable to display.

It is also possible to set the sender on an SMS to alphanumeric text instead
of a number, although I would think the sender would have needed to use an
SMS gateway with a special type of connection to the network for this. It
isn't possible to reply to SMS messages with a alphanumeric sender ID, so
normally this functionality is reserved for bulk or information services
only.

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Anonymouse

This was undoubtedly sent through an SMS gateway, with an
alphanumeric (text) originator address.  It can't be displayed
because there's something in the message headers that the 3315
can't handle.

The message might be stored in either the phone (if the 3315
supports phone storage) or the SIM.  If it's stored in the
phone, you might be able to read the raw PDU-mode message with
a serial cable, and have one of us decode it (as long as the
3315 supports serial "AT" commands - I don't actually know).

If it got stored on the SIM, you might be able to pop the SIM
into a more "sophisticated" phone and read it there.  Or get at
it with a serial cable on that phone.

John

Yes, you do.