[quote name='BudzMcGee']If you have a text messaging plan you shouldn't be charged extra for entering, but blocking "premium messaging" blocks all text messaging to and from short numbers cause all premium messaging uses short numbers (but not all short numbers are premium). Understand?
For example, in Milwaukee you can sign up to get text alerts when there is a snow emergency so you know to move your car. The texts don't cost anything (assuming you have a text plan, and even if I didn't my carrier (u.s. cellular) doesn't charge for incoming texts) but if I had premium messaging blocked on my phone it would block it since it isn't a normal number. I imagine the main advantage of having it set like that would be if you had kids, making sure they didn't see those stupid commercials for the cell phone background and send a text from your (or their) phone.[/QUOTE]
Ok, you seem to know a lot more about phone service plans than I do, so I have a question: Why does my service/phone block premium messaging like half of the time? It works on some short numbers, but other times (like this or radio station short numbers) it says I don't have premium messaging....Now I know I've entered other texting giveaways by 5th finger before, so I'm pretty sure I have some form of premium messaging, but I don't know why it won't work now. Anyone else seem to have this problem as well? Sorry to bring the premium thing back up again but I've been curious about this problem for a while now.