texting uk for free :P

dossingdave

Hi ppl, sorry if i posted in wrong forum

Just thinking,
i text loads of ppl in the uk, i suppose im not the only person, but, i have to say, with vodafone and that, it cost 25 cent per text :mad:

SO; :P
I came up wit an idea, if u wer to buy a sim card, like, say UK vodafone off Ebay, and sign up for the free web texts on the net, we could text uk for free right???

Correct me if this couldnt work :P

I was just wonderin,
Would it cost the ppl in uk loads to txt the uk number i would use bk???

Thanks :P
Dave

derv

would you not be roaming all the time on your UK sim ?

you would get charged more for the roaming texts ,
maybe the free texts do not work for roaming

you'd need to check it out .

derek27

if your an o2 customer, just go onine and register your details with them. you shoud get a €20 top-up for that for a start, but they give you 250 free web texts every month, and you can send them to anywhere in the world that has a decent mobile phone company. i use mine to text friends in england all the time. i think both vodafone and meteor offer free web texts online too, but i'm not sure if you can message abroad with theirs.

dossingdave

thanks for the replies guys,

Thats it, im off to buy an o2 sim card
lol

Thanks again,
Dave

P.S this site rules

Stark

dossingdave wrote:

P.S this site rules

PS: I noticed from your spelling in your posts that you're using a mobile phone keypad to type your messages. How did you manage to get boards working with your mobile phone? The rest of us here have to use computers with full size keyboards to type our messages.

derv

how can you tell that ?

Tazzle

Text Buddy

http://www.nitrowebsoftware.com/software/textbuddy/what.php

is a really handy tool for using those web texts

RoadSweeper

Stark wrote:

PS: I noticed from your spelling in your posts that you're using a mobile phone keypad to type your messages. How did you manage to get boards working with your mobile phone? The rest of us here have to use computers with full size keyboards to type our messages.

Haha, quality sarcasm.

dossingdave

I got me o2 sim card today :-D

Thanks ppl.
Dave

Thanks for that tool to ;-)

Thanks again,
Dave

RicardoSmith

derek27 wrote:

if your an o2 customer, just go onine and register your details with them. you shoud get a €20 top-up for that for a start, but they give you 250 free web texts every month, and you can send them to anywhere in the world that has a decent mobile phone company. i use mine to text friends in england all the time. i think both vodafone and meteor offer free web texts online too, but i'm not sure if you can message abroad with theirs.

The Meteor one only accepts 087/086/085 numbers. arrgggh. Probably would be worth getting a O2 sim just for online texts o2 the UK.

lomb

RicardoSmith wrote:

The Meteor one only accepts 087/086/085 numbers. arrgggh. Probably would be worth getting a O2 sim just for online texts o2 the UK.

i would think so, o2 sell a sim card for 10 euros with 30 credit, no point in ever topping up just dispose of the card when its out of credit and get another one!
This is quite apart from the free web texts.

dossingdave

the webtexts work like a dream :P

Dave