Consumer Thoughts

I sent this to Consumerist, but since they haven’t published it, I’ll post it here.

I have a Sony Ericsson phone (z520a) with Cingular as my carrier, and I just found an interesting setting in my phone. Go to Messages -> Settings -> Multimedia Msg. and there’s an option that says Accept Messages. Clicking on that brings you to two checkboxes to unmark - Anonymous and Advertisements. Both were checked by default. There is not a similar option for text messages, and I’ve never received a spam multimedia message, so I’m not sure how much it will help, but at least
now those multimedia messages won’t be counted against my monthly allotment.