MTS offers sending SMS through another party

The mobile operator MTS has announced the launch of Russia's first service that allows you to send SMS-messages by the other party.

Now, customers of MTS in Moscow and the Moscow region, while in the home area can stay in touch, even if the phone is locked or not enough money in the account to post messages. Extended functional service "helps out" not only allows you to make voice calls, and send SMS-messages to subscribers of MTS home area at their expense.

That would use the new vozmozhnostyudostatochno send free SMS-message to the phone number in the format 89160000000, adding the prefix 5880. After receiving the consent of the addressee to pay SMS, the message is delivered.

You do not need to connect and are rendered free of charge. The cost of SMS length of 70 characters in Cyrillic or Latin 160 subscribers, for whose account the payment is made is 2.72 rubles. Content more bulk messages is divided into parts, with one part of the volume is 67 or 153 characters, respectively, each charged as a separate message.

As part of the service "to help out," MTS launched in 2010 with the ability to make voice calls at the expense of the recipient, you can make up to 10 calls, and send up to 50 SMS per day.