SPCS to remove Short Mail web access features

https://messaging.sprintpcs.com/sml/...seShortMail.do
shows that, as of 17 November, Sprint will discontinue the View and
Organize Inbox feature for One-Way Messaging and Short Mail from this
website beginning on or after the 17th of November.

This means that if you don't have Wireless Web or PCS Vision as prepaid
options in your plan, it will cost you fifty cents a minute to clear SMS
spam out of your Short Mail inbox.

First, SPCS cut off the ability to read Short Mail on the phones without
using Wireless Web minutes, and now we can't even clear messages we sdon;t
want to see without using WW minutes.

This demonstrates the greed of SPCS.

You can have the linkage between [email protected] and
incoming text messages broken by calling Clueless Claire. However, this
does nothing for SMS spam or other harassment.



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In article <[email protected]>,=20
[email protected][email protected] says...
> This means that if you don't have Wireless Web or PCS Vision as prepaid
> options in your plan, it will cost you fifty cents a minute to clear SMS
> spam out of your Short Mail inbox.
>=20

No. If you have a Vision phone, it'll cost 1=A2/KB. Not 50=A2/min.

Just wanted to clear that portion up.

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O/Siris
I work for SprintPCS
I *don't* speak for them.

Isn't this rumored to be in preparation for SPCS supporting "true" SMS?
(MO-SMS)


"O/Siris" <robjvargas@sprîntpcs.côm> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected][email protected] says...
> This means that if you don't have Wireless Web or PCS Vision as prepaid
> options in your plan, it will cost you fifty cents a minute to clear SMS
> spam out of your Short Mail inbox.
>

No. If you have a Vision phone, it'll cost 1¢/KB. Not 50¢/min.

Just wanted to clear that portion up.

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O/Siris
I work for SprintPCS
I *don't* speak for them.

In article <[email protected]>,
Steve <[email protected]> wrote:
>No. If you have a Vision phone, it'll cost 1¢/KB. Not 50¢/min.

Which is a HUGE amount of money to charge people for spam.

-s
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Its a regional thing. Area wide only.

Now for an interesting question: What about qwest customers when they come
online? Are they gonna be under the affiliate? Or corporate? This is an
affiliate market, IIRC.

"Steve" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Isn't this rumored to be in preparation for SPCS supporting "true" SMS?
> (MO-SMS)
>
>
> "O/Siris" <robjvargas@sprîntpcs.côm> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> In article <[email protected]>,
> [email protected][email protected] says...
> > This means that if you don't have Wireless Web or PCS Vision as prepaid
> > options in your plan, it will cost you fifty cents a minute to clear SMS
> > spam out of your Short Mail inbox.
> >
>
> No. If you have a Vision phone, it'll cost 1¢/KB. Not 50¢/min.
>
> Just wanted to clear that portion up.
>
> --
> -+-
> RØß
> O/Siris
> I work for SprintPCS
> I *don't* speak for them.
>
>

In article <[email protected]>, [email protected]=
om=20
says...
> Isn't this rumored to be in preparation for SPCS supporting "true" SMS?
> (MO-SMS)
>=20
>=20

Not really. Vision has always charged by the KB, rather than by the minute=
.. =20
Until earlier this year, it was 0.2=A2/KB, then got upped to a full penny.

Initial indications are that 2wSMS is going to be separately priced. But=
=20
nothing is official.

--=20
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R=D8=DF
O/Siris
I work for SprintPCS
I *don't* speak for them.

In article <[email protected]>,=20
[email protected] says...
> Which is a HUGE amount of money to charge people for spam.
>=20
> -s
>=20

The spam itself costs you nothing. Accessing Shortmail may cost if you're =
not=20
on a Vision pack. But the messages themselves are free.

For the "real" SMS, we'll have to see how that will work out.

--=20
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O/Siris
I work for SprintPCS
I *don't* speak for them.

In article <[email protected]>,
O/Siris <robjvargas@sprîntpcs.côm> wrote:
>In article <[email protected]>,
>[email protected] says...
>> Which is a HUGE amount of money to charge people for spam.

>The spam itself costs you nothing. Accessing Shortmail may cost if you're not
>on a Vision pack. But the messages themselves are free.

If other peoples' incoming spam is anything like mine, it'd get Vision turned
off if you actually accessed it over the phone. Several GB/month.

-s
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Consulting, computers, web hosting, and shell access: http://www.plethora.net/

"true SMS" is supposed to be out sometime in December, according to the
last CSR I spoke with... He stated that all phones may not support
it...

Jake

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"O/Siris" <robjvargas@sprîntpcs.côm> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected]
says...
> Isn't this rumored to be in preparation for SPCS supporting "true" SMS?
> (MO-SMS)
>
>

Not really. Vision has always charged by the KB, rather than by the minute.
Until earlier this year, it was 0.2¢/KB, then got upped to a full penny.

Initial indications are that 2wSMS is going to be separately priced. But
nothing is official.

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RØß
O/Siris
I work for SprintPCS
I *don't* speak for them.