Your carrier may charge for SMS imessage

everytime i turn my imessage or facetime on my iPhone 4S says " your carrier may charge for SMS messages used to activate imessage " and i don't know what to do . can you help me ?

To activate iMessage, the phone will send an SMS to Apple, containing your phone details. Your carrier may charge you for that if you don't have an unlimited SMS account or only a certain number of free texts. This will only happen once. After iMessage is set up, you will only be charge by your carrier if the iMessage can't be sent as iMessage, for example if the recipient does not have an iPhone,or if iMessage is not available.
This can be set up in Settings/Messages/

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I have international carrier charges for sms use when activating imessage would this be correct?

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Hi
I have enabled a feauture provider by my operator which tells me my sms costs etc.
It told me 4times that an international sms has been sent, immediately after recieving a notification that your operator may charge for imessage.
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In order to successfully exchange iMessages, following conditions have to be met.
1) Both the parties should have iOS-5 or above.
2) Both parties should have iMessage successfully activated.
3) Both parties should be in 3G or WIFI reception area.
Check if you have "Send as SMS" option set to ON.
SETTINGS - MESSAGES - SEND AS SMS (Turn it OFF)
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Hi All
I am trying to find an answer to this and I'm hoping you might be able to help.
I have an iPhone 5 on a contract with a UK carrier ( O2 ). I often travel to the Middle East so to avoid horrendous call and data charges, I turn off cellular services and just to make sure I turn off the 'Send as SMS' option too. I would assume that this restricts me to Wi-Fi use only, which is what I want.
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Send as SMS only applies to iMessages (sent over wifi or cell data). You can see this option disppears if you trun off iMessage.
Regular SMS (sent to non-iMessage users) can still be sent. If you send a message in the Messages app and it is green, it is SMS and you will be charge for SMS text message.
I turn off cellular services
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I had the 700 minute family share plan and also for my line I had a 500 text allotment. Today I go on my page to view my upcoming bill. I have a charge for $91.95 in texts. Made up of 15 total picture/video messages and 400+ regular texts. The total combined did not go over 500. It was around $40 in charges for sent and received messages.
So I had changed my plan to a better plan but set it to not go into effect until my next billing cycle which began 4 days ago.
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Here is my portion of that bill minus my phone #s on the account. I have a feeling maybe they canceled something before I wanetd it to be? I was due for a new contract around 12/18 but I was shopping for a different plan so I just let that pass. So the current one would have just kept going as it was. The texting I used was obviously under 500 texts. I'm thinking maybe I got billed in advance for something to make it that way. I can't distinguish stuff too well.
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500 MSG Allowance + UNL IN MSG - Refund 12/11 - 12/26
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TEC Phones - Asurion 12/11 - 12/26
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5.99/mo / 16 day s on new service
TEC Phones - Asurion 12/27 - 01/26 (month in advance)
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Usage ChargesThese are your variable charges that depend on whether you have used any services that are billed on a per-use basis, or have exceeded any monthly allowance included in your Plan or Optional Services.
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Allowance
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Billable
Charge
SharePlan (11/27 - 12/26)
minutes
700
166
(shared)
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minutes
unlimited
35
Night/Weekend
minutes
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Used
Billable
Charge
Unbilled Usage from Previous Months*
Text, Picture & Video
messages
5
Current Usage
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messages
227
227
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Text - Rcv'd
messages
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214
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Unlimited M2M Text
messages
unlimited
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(11/27 - 12/11)
Picture & Video - Sent
messages
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Picture & Video - Rcv'd
messages
5
5
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UNL M2M Picture & Video
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Sometimes your carrier may release important updates that the phone needs to work with them, maybe something is missing, its hard to tell, try these steps.
Make sure your device is connected to the Internet.
Tap Settings > General > About. If an update is available, a prompt will appear.
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Charge for texts when using iMessage

Why am I charged for texts that include photos or video when using iMessage to send or receive with other Apple products? Should the senders use an email address instead of my iPhone number? I have ATT with pay as you go texting. I'm only charged when there's a photo or video attached.

Hi Garypsu,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities. This article has some steps you can try if iMessages aren't sending correctly:
iOS: Troubleshooting Messages
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2755
If you still can't send or receive iMessages
Ensure that iMessage is turned on in Settings > Messages.
To send and receive iMessages, your device must have a valid cellular or Wi-Fi data connection.
iPhone: Troubleshooting Cellular data
iOS: Troubleshooting Wi-Fi networks and connections
iMessage registration validates your Apple ID for use with iMessage. If you are unable to activate iMessage, follow this article.
If an iMessage cannot be sent, it will be resent using SMS or MMS, depending on the content. You can turn this behavior on or off in Settings > Messages > Send As SMS. Carrier messaging rates may apply.
Verify that the Apple ID or phone number is listed in Settings > Messages > Send & Receive.
Step 4 above describes how to turn off having failed iMessages send as texts to prevent this from happening.
Cheers,
- Ari

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