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Anonymous   07-18-2005 at 01:58:31 PM

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I am a Verizon Wireless customer, and I just recently discovered the
feature known as Mobile IM. What I would like to know, is does it cost
to send and receive instant messages to people who have Mobile IM set
up on their Verizon Wireless too?

For example, I log on to Mobile IM with my AOL Instant Messenger
screenname, and I want to message a user who has their AOL Instant
Messenger screenname signed on in Mobile IM on their Verizon Wireless
cell phone. Would this cost to have a conversation back and forth?
Because I have a text messaging plan to where I can send and receive
texts to any Verizon Wireless customer for free, plus get 50 additional
text messages to send/receive after that to non-Verizon Wireless
customers.

Does anyone have any idea about this? If you do not understand what I
am saying, feel free to ask for a more in-depth description. Thanks in
advance.

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Anonymous   07-18-2005 at 04:26:32 PM
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I think every message you send would count as a text sent to a
non-Verizon customer, because your messages are going through the AIM
servers which, in this case, are acting almost like SMS proxies. And
usually their phone will send back a message saying "Your message has
been forwarded to my mobile device" so this will count like 1 sent and
1 recieved text message to a non-Verizon customer. You would be much
better off to send them a regular text message.

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Anonymous   07-18-2005 at 09:04:53 PM
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The "info" screen on Mobile IM says that each message sent or received
counts as a text message. In this case, they would be 'non-VZW' text
messages, so your 50 messages would get chewed up quite fast.

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Anonymous   07-18-2005 at 10:40:08 PM
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Okay, I appreciate all the responses I have received. Thank you.

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