What is exactly is Cingular's "text messaging"?

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DecaturTxCowboy - 21 Dec 2005 17:03 GMT

Anyone have any input on exactly what Cingular considers text messaging?

I assume Cingular is referring to an SMS text message that is sent from
a Cingular phone from another Cinular phone, another carrier's phone, or
an SMS portal (like from Cingular's web page).

Now...what about Yahoo Messenger text messaging?

1) If you use the embedded IM Messenger from the phone, I can see how
Cingular could track it and consider it billable.

2) If you Yahoo's Java client (which I don't know for a fact if its
compatible with Cingular, but it is with Sprint), I can see how Cingular
could track it and consider it billable.

3) If you go to Yahoo's mobile instant messaging as part of a web
browsing experience, is this a text message as far as Cingular is concerned?

4) Lets take it a step further and say you use the Yahoo IM HTML based
web page for text messaging as typical web browsing experience. There's
no way Cingular could track it as a text message. Correct?

How does Cingular's Text/Instant Messaging differ from Multimedia Messaging?

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dold@XReXXWhatX.usenet.us.com - 21 Dec 2005 19:01 GMT

> Anyone have any input on exactly what Cingular considers text messaging?

http://www.cingular.com/media/text_messaging

I can understand which is which, but I get lost in which email addresses to
use. John Navas had a post here about that.

> YOURNUMBER@CingularME.com sends
> YOURMEdiaID@CingularME.com sends
> YOURNUMBER@MyCingular.com sends
> YOURMEdiaID@CingularME.com sends
> YOURNUMBER@MMS.MyCingular.com sends

> 1) If you use the embedded IM Messenger from the phone, I can see how
> Cingular could track it and consider it billable.

www.cingular.com - Customer Service - Common Questions - Features:Data

> 2) If you Yahoo's Java client (which I don't know for a fact if its
> compatible with Cingular, but it is with Sprint), I can see how Cingular
> could track it and consider it billable.

http://www.cingular.com/media/instant_messaging
Your choice of AOL or Yahoo IM.
Looks like that is text messages, but I thought I saw an option to do text
or data, somewhere... http://mobile.yahoo.com/messenger?carrier=cing
A GUI or text version, both charged as text messages.
Or the Mobile browser version, charged as data.

> 3) If you go to Yahoo's mobile instant messaging as part of a web
> browsing experience, is this a text message as far as Cingular is concerned?

No way. Browsing is browsing... data.

> 4) Lets take it a step further and say you use the Yahoo IM HTML based
> web page for text messaging as typical web browsing experience. There's
> no way Cingular could track it as a text message. Correct?

> How does Cingular's Text/Instant Messaging differ from Multimedia Messaging?

http://www.cingular.com/media/multimedia_messaging

Don't forget Mobile EMail.

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