International texts

kelzer

I'm looking to know if any network offer an international text add-on? I send more texts to the uk than I do internally. About 30 uk text and 25 irish texts per month. I'm on Meteor Talk 60 at present and want to know if there is a cheaper tariff for me?

Thinking of possibly moving to 3 but there international texts are .25c.

Jonathan

kelzer wrote: »

I'm looking to know if any network offer an international text add-on? I send more texts to the uk than I do internally. About 30 uk text and 25 irish texts per month. I'm on Meteor Talk 60 at present and want to know if there is a cheaper tariff for me?

Thinking of possibly moving to 3 but there international texts are .25c.

I think i remember reading somewhere that o2 have cut their international webtexts... If they havent, use cabbage to send them.

kelzer

Will cabbage send international texts though?

Jonathan

kelzer wrote: »

Will cabbage send international texts though?

Thats exactly what I just said. If o2 webtexts allow them, cabbage will send them.

cormie

It will indeed

Sam Vimes

kelzer wrote: »

Will cabbage send international texts though?

you'd have to get an o2 sim card. they cost about ten euro. then your texts would come from this number and the person you're texting would text back your normal one

kelzer

Sam Vimes wrote: »

you'd have to get an o2 sim card. they cost about ten euro. then your texts would come from this number and the person you're texting would text back your normal one

Or I could port my bill pay to O2.

cormie

freesims.ie for a free o2 sim card (well, 2 of them).

Peter B

kelzer wrote: »

Will cabbage send international texts though?

Cabbage uses O2's online texting feature. With O2 online texting you can text internationally and domestically any network for free (Limited 250 per month). Therefore Cabbage would be a good option for you. If you buy a (GPRS I think) data bundle for €7.50 per month you get €250MB which will allow you to send them free (up to the limit) otherwise its charged at a certain rate per KB. If you are going to use the GPRS for downloading lots of data: BART Bus And Rail Timetables); Gmail coming to phone; and Cabbage for using free online O2 texts it works out quite well and is very convenient all for €7.50 per month. It is unlikely you will go over the limit as these programs send and receive very small amounts of data. When my home internet was down I used my phone to get internet for my computer. That was the only time I went over my limit - by €2.

Jonathan

Peter B wrote: »

Cabbage uses O2's online texting feature. With O2 online texting you can text internationally and domestically any network for free (Limited 250 per month). Therefore Cabbage would be a good option for you. If you buy a (GPRS I think) data bundle for €7.50 per month you get €250MB which will allow you to send them free (up to the limit) otherwise its charged at a certain rate per KB. If you are going to use the GPRS for downloading lots of data: BART Bus And Rail Timetables); Gmail coming to phone; and Cabbage for using free online O2 texts it works out quite well and is very convenient all for €7.50 per month. It is unlikely you will go over the limit as these programs send and receive very small amounts of data. When my home internet was down I used my phone to get internet for my computer. That was the only time I went over my limit - by €2.

How much is Sam paying you? :P

kelzer

Peter B wrote: »

Cabbage uses O2's online texting feature. With O2 online texting you can text internationally and domestically any network for free (Limited 250 per month). Therefore Cabbage would be a good option for you. If you buy a (GPRS I think) data bundle for €7.50 per month you get €250MB which will allow you to send them free (up to the limit) otherwise its charged at a certain rate per KB. If you are going to use the GPRS for downloading lots of data: BART Bus And Rail Timetables); Gmail coming to phone; and Cabbage for using free online O2 texts it works out quite well and is very convenient all for €7.50 per month. It is unlikely you will go over the limit as these programs send and receive very small amounts of data. When my home internet was down I used my phone to get internet for my computer. That was the only time I went over my limit - by €2.

I doubt I would need the data bundle as I only would send 30-40 international texts and can use the text allowance for national texts. Would the data charge be more than €1 for 30 texts on Cabbage?

cormie

Peter B wrote: »

Cabbage uses O2's online texting feature. With O2 online texting you can text internationally and domestically any network for free (Limited 250 per month). Therefore Cabbage would be a good option for you. If you buy a (GPRS I think) data bundle for €7.50 per month you get €250MB which will allow you to send them free (up to the limit) otherwise its charged at a certain rate per KB. If you are going to use the GPRS for downloading lots of data: BART Bus And Rail Timetables); Gmail coming to phone; and Cabbage for using free online O2 texts it works out quite well and is very convenient all for €7.50 per month. It is unlikely you will go over the limit as these programs send and receive very small amounts of data. When my home internet was down I used my phone to get internet for my computer. That was the only time I went over my limit - by €2.

If you'll ONLY be using cabbage though, spending €7.50 a month will be too much for what you need. You can send about 8-10 txts for one cent, so even if you could only send 5 for one cent, 50 would be 10 cent, 250 would be 50c a month, so the extra €7 would go to waste, because you only send 30, you're talking about 5c a month in credit if you use cabbage

Lissoy

O2 have a business plan for €20/month that gives all International txt's at 8c.