Will someone charge me for sending me a text message?

No, sending a text message will only deduct the phone bill of the sender, and it will not be deducted when receiving a text message.

Short message, short for SMS, refers to text or digital information sent or received directly by users through mobile phones or other telecommunication terminals. The number of characters that users can send and receive SMS at a time is 160 English or numeric characters or 70 Chinese characters.

1992 when the world's first short message was successfully sent to a mobile phone on the GSM network in Wolfen, England, no one would have thought that this low-cost short message service, which was originally launched by telecom operators to solve the problem of high mobile phone charges, would have an impact on people's economic and cultural life many years later.

The inventor of mobile phone short message is Finnish. Because Nordic people are sensitive and don't like to express by phone, they invented short message on a whim.

From June 5438+1October 65438+May, 2009, 0. 1 yuan/message will be charged to all operators.

The number of characters a user sends and receives a short message is 160 English or numeric characters or 70 Chinese characters. If the number of words supported by the system is exceeded, the system will send it in strips and charge according to the actual number of articles sent.