International text costs

GBX

Hi .. anybody know which is the cheapest network in Ireland for sending international texts. I am currently with o2, who charge .25c for one. Are Three or Vodafone cheaper? any help appreciated

sixpack's little hat

Vodaphone charge 25c aswell

SoBe

get an o2 buisness plan there only 8c and u can buy them in bulk,750 for around 45 yoyos i think.

check out the o2 business site.thats what i use now as i was getting hammered with credit top ups the other way

dal

Have you checked out AFT (lets you use your 250 free webtexts from your phone)? I am with o2 and each international text I send cost 0.25c (100 times cheaper than a normal international text).

Random

AFT is a good choice with an O2 SIM .. hell, even just O2 webtexts.

Alternatively, don't Meteor have lower cost international texts too ?

dal

ciaranfo wrote:

Alternatively, don't Meteor have lower cost international texts too ?

I think they do, I used to be with meteor and I think they are 15c.

Urban Weigl

O2 lets you send international texts for free via o2online.ie.

yapyap

Step 1 : Instal AFT
Step 2: Send 250 national or intrnational texts / month using your O2 web text allowance from your desktop / AFT app on handset
Step 3: If you're a real text head who sends >250 texts/month go here for details of all texts whatever the destination for 2.8c/text
Step 4: Spend the money you save on texting to make calls

Notes;
gprs speakeasy charges apply at 2c / kb, ie 20.48 Euro / MB
If you're on billpay and use your handset to surf the internet and send texts over gprs get a data plan starting at 0.732422c / kb / month
If you have a business account you can pay as little as 0.1227 c / kb + VAT
One text will use no more than 1kb

sudzs

You could try Skype...

It's 9c to txt a US mobile....though not great if you want to txt when out and about!

Slice

Meteor charge 13cent per international text, no bundle required

dal

Slice wrote:

Meteor charge 13cent per international text, no bundle required

15c, no?
http://www.meteor.ie/payg_international_plans.html

yapyap

sudzs wrote:

You could try Skype... It's 9c to txt a US mobile....though not great if you want to txt when out and about!

That's what I don't like about Skype, they use a headline rate of 9c / text but it's actually 9c + VAT = 10.4c / text. They do the same with their skype out call rates with headline ex VAT rates. For desktop SMS Skype is way too expensive when you have the option of free web text, Multitexter/AFT and others like mobisms and smsbug that can be used from either your handset or desktop with the advantage that they all show the number of the sender. AFT can be used too from any computer in the world using MSN / Windows messenger

GBX

Hey everybody, meteor is cheap yeah. but the network my girlfriend uses dont work with meteor and she doesnt recieve them.
ill have a look at AFT thanks.

Any idea how much 3 charge? there website dont have info

neilled

GBX wrote:

Hey everybody, meteor is cheap yeah. but the network my girlfriend uses dont work with meteor and she doesnt recieve them.
ill have a look at AFT thanks.

Any idea how much 3 charge? there website dont have info

25 cent

GBX

ok .. how do I go about installing aft on my nokia 3220? any ideas?

stereo_steve

GBX wrote:

Hey everybody, meteor is cheap yeah. but the network my girlfriend uses dont work with meteor and she doesnt recieve them.
ill have a look at AFT thanks.

Don't mean to sound rude.....but are you sure your using your phone right?!

What network?

SoBe

stereo_steve wrote:

Don't mean to sound rude.....but are you sure your using your phone right?!

What network?

they wont send a txt to the alltel network in the states i know that cus i tried them

Sam Vimes

GBX wrote:

ok .. how do I go about installing aft on my nokia 3220? any ideas?

once you have gprs set up open up the web and in the "go to address" section type:
http://killarneyonline.eu/o2text/aft.jar

120_Minutes

GBX wrote:

Hey everybody, meteor is cheap yeah. but the network my girlfriend uses dont work with meteor and she doesnt recieve them.
ill have a look at AFT thanks.

Any idea how much 3 charge? there website dont have info

true, i was in the same boat. Meteor dont have agreements with some american networks, sprint being one of them.

AFT is a good bet, or before you choose your network, make sure they can send a text to whatever country you want.