iPhone: Multiple Recipient SMS's are Sent as MMS

I discovered today that the iPhone doesn't support multiple-recpient SMSs. In fairness, no phone I know really does. Most phones when sending such SMSs will send a single-recipient SMS separately to each recipient. The phones just save you the trouble of typing the message X number of times.

Today I discovered adding a second recipient to an SMS on the iPhone automatically causes the SMS to be sent as an MMS, regardless of whether there is any multimedia in the message being sent.

This is a huge disadvantage in Australia. A large percentage of the people I know aren't able to receive MMSs. For myself it costs more for me to send a single MMS than it does to send two SMSs, and that's the best case scenario assuming I'm not being charged per recipient.

Oh well, I aint going to get hung up on it, but if you send multiple SMSs a lot and you see MMSs on your bill, you'll know why.

A discussion has already been started on this at Apple's Forums.