Love my Sony Z1 Compact, but I got a nasty billing surprise today!!
I checked my 3 bill and I have £27 in other usage.
I queried this with 3 and they went back and found on day one of my contract I had sent 70 MMS messages, to which I went WTF???
I said to the bloke that he’d seen my usage and I don’t send MMS messages, the only messages I sent at that time was my new number in a group text to some of my contacts (it said it failed so I resent it).
Turns out that if I select more than 7 contacts from my phone it auto converts it to an MMS message(never had this before with the iPhone).
So I may have to suck it up!! Got my fingers crossed they don’t sting me for it though.

I wasn’t aware of this fact, so it’s worth noting for future.

I’m sure if you read the small print of your contract it will be be there somewhere.
I doubt they’ll let you off.

It’s bloody annoying as I’ve never had this issue in the past. I was even using the same phone on GiffGaff and didn’t get stung like that for bulk messages?? I’m glad I’m going back to GiffGaff (got lured to 3 with the promise of 4G etc. I can’t even get sodding 3G lol) at the end of the month.

you get unlimited text and data on the 12 quid goodie bags.

I am on all you can eat data and unlimited txts on 3!!! This is why I’m mighty annoyed.

lose the message app for Go SMS Pro or similar which can handle group messages properly.

and/or whatsapp/snapchat etc

for a simple fix, just remove the config data for your mms server.

It’s a 3 thing. As giffgaff never handled group messages like that.

Never happened with vodafone
But yeah that’s what whatsapp or fbook messenger is for

I think it’s karma for leaving a perfectly good service 😆