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Texting overseas |
silmer
Joined: Jul 28, 2003
Posts: 70
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I am on contract with o2. 90% of my calls are to 0800 because I use a phone card.90% of my texts(a lot) are to the Philippines.
Is there any better company than o2 for my needs.
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X-5Wannabe
Joined: Jun 25, 2005
Posts: 4
From: London, UK
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I hope you use 0800 numbers using a landline and not your mobile phone.
I don't send that much text to the Philippines but I would say your best bet is with Vodafone. Whether you send a text to a UK mobile or abroad the cost is still the same, unlike with O2 and T-Mobile. Someone told me you can't even send texts to the Philippines with Orange.
Please correct me if I'm wrong... |
bolo
Joined: Jul 12, 2003
Posts: 90
From: Soton
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Actually O2 includes texts aboard in your bundles, unlike vodafone. Only problem with O2 is no message delivery reports. |
X-5Wannabe
Joined: Jun 25, 2005
Posts: 4
From: London, UK
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Oh really? For some reason I thought the bundles were only for UK texts, the way free texts are only for UK. No matter.
O2 does have delivery reports but you have to use *0# at the beginning of your text. This used to get on my nerves as it took effort and space but I've learned to live with it.
The thing I don't like about Vodafone is that voicemail is not free - which cost me so much money when I was looking for jobs and all these agencies kept leaving messages on my voicemail. LOL |
bolo
Joined: Jul 12, 2003
Posts: 90
From: Soton
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O2 charge 4 texts for every overseas text. I know about that delivery report thing but it is just annoying having to type in the 3 characters for del reports.
Are you sure about the cost? I was on voda last year and it cost me 3 times a normal text to send to the USA.
[ This Message was edited by: bolo on 2005-06-26 00:37 ] |
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Posted: 2005-06-25 21:13
