How many chars SMS can I send from Fido to Bell?

October 1, 2009 6:30 PM

How long of an SMS message can I send, if my phone is on Fido, and the recipient is on Bell? 140 characters? 160?

How long of an SMS message can I send, if my phone is on Fido, and the recipient is on Bell? 140 characters? 160? Does it matter what kinds of phones or accounts we have? I have a... uh.... sensitive message I want to send to someone. It's 153 characters and I don't want it to get cut off....

posted by ImaginaryFriend to technology (4 comments total)

140 is a hardware limit, but my carrier (AT&T) will span messages across however many individual SMS are necessary.
posted by Oktober at 6:51 PM on October 1

Bell phones can send SMS up to 140 characters, but Bell phones can RECEIVE 160 character SMS, it will just come in as two text messages.
posted by heavenstobetsy at 6:51 PM on October 1

Omit needless.
posted by turgid dahlia at 10:18 PM on October 1

The SMS message standard uses 140 bytes which works out to 160 characters (using a 7-bit characters).
posted by blue_beetle at 8:54 AM on October 2