RE: splitting messages

hmm.. interesting.. what is this custom billing?  what is this billing port?  where can i find out more info about this? and will this work with both contract and prepaid customers?

thanks

mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Konstantin Vayner [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 1:17 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: splitting messages


Not if you have an option to set custom billing - then you can choose 
billing port depending on split count

DILWORTH MICHAEL wrote:

>hi
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>yes this option has been mentioned.. but then this means all our binary messages will have to be the same size, or at least have the same number of splits.
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>mike
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Arne K. Haaje [mailto:[email protected]]
>Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 11:15 AM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: splitting messages
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>torsdag 21. august 2003, 09:57, skrev DILWORTH MICHAEL:
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>>thanks to all who got involved in this. I have certainly learnt much more
>>about the issue now.  excellent!
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>>a quick summary:
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>>I needed to have the split use different from numbers for billing reasons. 
>>We wanted to bill binary (ringtone and logos) on MT, but because of the
>>splitting issue we were in danger of charging for every message. As charges
>>are stated to the user simply, for example 1 euro per ringtone, it would
>>have been messy to fix this.   I also work for the carrier and my comments
>>our billing systems were treated in typical telco style..  we arnt very
>>flexible..  anyway.. the idea was to send the first of the split from a
>>chargeable number and the rest from a non charging number.. simple if it
>>works.  Also this would work well with our prepaid customers.
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>>As we cant do this now we are faced with 2 more options.
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>>1. send a chargeable "ping" message to the user.  if this gets delivered ok
>>then send the binary from a free short code. 2. implement MO charging.
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>>option 2 is the favourite here as it seems to be the established way of
>>doing it.
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>Why can't you split the cost between the messages? If the price for a ringtone 
>is 1 euro but it must be split into two messages, can't you bill those two 
>messages 0,5 euro each?
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