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On 9 O'clock news - Cost more to text in irish.....What?!

  • 18-07-2012 11:41PM
    #1
    ryanch09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 380 ✭✭


    Saw that earlier and immediately asked myself 'what are they talking about?!'. I've never heard that before...has it just started recently or have mobile networks always been doing this?!


Comments

  • #2
    dewdrop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 265 ✭✭dewdrop


    Amazed that such an item warranted inclusion in the main evening news. Is the new guy in charge yet?


  • #3
    ryanch09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 380 ✭✭ryanch09


    dewdrop wrote: »
    Amazed that such an item warranted inclusion in the main evening news. Is the new guy in charge yet?

    Not a clue :)


  • #4
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    September (see my thread below this one)


  • #5
    Stark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,141 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    It's the same if you send a Euro symbol afaik. By default texts use the standard GSM alphabet which uses 7-bit characters (128 different characters). If you use a character that's not part of the standard GSM alphabet, then it switches to 16-bit Unicode meaning you can only squeeze 70 characters into the same space.


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