Receiving multiple short texts instead of one from some people

[atmose]

Just started happening where I get a text message (from only a few different contacts) that comes in as multiple short text messages. Everyone else's come through as one message, theirs is 5 or 6.  This of course is eating up my text allowance.  Is it a phone issue, a setting on my side, or a setting on these few contacts side?

[nicholasbranson · Accepted solution]

Messages are sent as either SMS (short message service) or MMS (multimedia message service.) MMS used to be mainly for picture messages, but now also covers sending text messages longer than 160 characters. My guess is that your friend has a phone or service that for some reason is not allowing MMS