Group texting numbers

I am looking in to buying a mobile phone to communicate with all the
members of a club by text. I wanted to know how many people could be
included on a group text message. I emailed a mobile phone provider who
did some testing on a couple of phones for me and said that it depended
on the type of phone. A Samsung could handle about 20 and a Sony
Ericsson could handle about 30. Can anyone beat this? I want a phone
that can handle as many as possible.

Thank you for your help




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grouptxter

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On Nov 5, 1:34 pm, grouptxter <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I am looking in to buying a mobile phone to communicate with all the
> members of a club by text. I wanted to know how many people could be
> included on a group text message. I emailed a mobile phone provider who
> did some testing on a couple of phones for me and said that it depended
> on the type of phone. A Samsung could handle about 20 and a Sony
> Ericsson could handle about 30. Can anyone beat this? I want a phone
> that can handle as many as possible.
>
> Thank you for your help
>
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> grouptxter

This is strictly limited by the mobile itself, not by the network, as
each recipient specified in the "Group" SMS will receive his/her own
message. Essentially you are just sending the same message to a whole
bunch of people without having to copy and paste one by one. To the
network, it looks as if you sent multiple messages in short
succession.

Without have experience on the handset approval side, I am convinced
that most cellular service providers will limit the amount of
recipients you can specify in an SMS message in order to counteract
spammers.

Thank you for replying. I got an email back from Sony Ericsson saying
that their p1i could handle an unlimited number of group text
recipients. Too expensive for me. Hopefully they will answer my queston
about whether any of the older models can handle a large number of
recipients. Then I suppose it's down to limit put in place by
provider.

cwinter;384543 Wrote:
> On Nov 5, 1:34 pm, grouptxter [email protected]
> wrote:-
> I am looking in to buying a mobile phone to communicate with all the
> members of a club by text. I wanted to know how many people could be
> included on a group text message. I emailed a mobile phone provider
> who
> did some testing on a couple of phones for me and said that it
> depended
> on the type of phone. A Samsung could handle about 20 and a Sony
> Ericsson could handle about 30. Can anyone beat this? I want a phone
> that can handle as many as possible.
>
> Thank you for your help
>
> --
> grouptxter-
>
> This is strictly limited by the mobile itself, not by the network, as
> each recipient specified in the "Group" SMS will receive his/her own
> message. Essentially you are just sending the same message to a whole
> bunch of people without having to copy and paste one by one. To the
> network, it looks as if you sent multiple messages in short
> succession.
>
> Without have experience on the handset approval side, I am convinced
> that most cellular service providers will limit the amount of
> recipients you can specify in an SMS message in order to counteract
> spammers.




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grouptxter