Messaging traffic

Windows Mobile, Symbian, and UIQ 3.0 devices are able to collect information about messaging usage. The device automatically logs the use of messaging traffic. Messaging includes SMS (Short Message Service) messages and MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) messages. Currently, there is no technical way to distinguish between the two types of messages.

The following information is recorded on the device:

• The device ID
• The current device user
• Whether the device was roaming
  

  Most network operators provide a roaming service, which allows users to use their phone even if they are not in their home coverage area. When roaming, the user of the phone effectively rents the use of the network of another network operator.

  When a user is outside his home coverage area, for instance if a French DME user goes on a trip to Norway, he will not only have to pay a roaming for calls that he makes, but also for calls that he receives.

• Mobile country code (MCC) - the country of your location
• Mobile network code (MNC). Together with the MCC, the MNC uniquely identifies the mobile phone operator/carrier that handled the message at your end
• Name of operator as retrieved from the relay station. Note that since the operator name can be spelled differently depending on which relay station you pick it up from, you may want to edit the name in the database in order to be able to group properly by operator. Contact your DME partner about this.
• The number of messages (SMS and MMS)
• The date and time of the message, including time zone information
• The direction of the message - incoming or outgoing
• The phone number of the recipient or sender of the message
• The number of parts in the message - long messages are automatically divided into parts, and each part is chargeable

  In case of MMS messages, the following is also recorded:

• The duration of the GPRS connection required to send or receive the MMS
• The number of bytes sent
• The number of bytes received

This information is used for building the statistics database on the server, if the logging functionality is enabled (see Enabling traffic logging).