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Texts from your mobile 1p

derrick
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Anyone tried these? are they legit?

http://www.fishtext.com/MOBILE/
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  • espresso
    espresso Posts: 16,448 Forumite
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    derrick wrote: »
    Anyone tried these? are they legit?

    http://www.fishtext.com/MOBILE/

    Do you get a free data allowance? If not you need to work out your mobile operators data costs in addition to the 1p charge.
    :doh: Blue text on this forum usually signifies hyperlinks, so click on them!..:wall:
  • derrick
    derrick Posts: 7,424 Forumite
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    espresso wrote: »
    Do you get a free data allowance? If not you need to work out your mobile operators data costs in addition to the 1p charge.

    Not as far as I know! Am just on Virgin PAYG, don't use it much but thought for 1p a text, if legit, it would be worthwhile, if data charges apply, I can't be bothered with it, will just continue to us the free web based ones like CBFSMS etc.
    Don`t steal - the Government doesn`t like the competition


  • mikegahan
    mikegahan Posts: 280 Forumite
    Dunno about this one, but 18185.co.uk are now offering texts to UK and oveerseas for 1p and it does work. But u do have to set up an account, register a card, and you send the texts from inside your account. But it works!
  • plob
    plob Posts: 59 Forumite
    a text message is 1kb of data so your data charges will be insignificant, so may well be worth checking out.
  • derrick
    derrick Posts: 7,424 Forumite
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    mikegahan wrote: »
    Dunno about this one, but 18185.co.uk are now offering texts to UK and oveerseas for 1p and it does work. But u do have to set up an account, register a card, and you send the texts from inside your account. But it works!

    But that can only be done from the web, I am assuming http://www.fishtext.com/MOBILE/ can be done from a mobile, if not then I would continue to use Finerea,aka, 1899,18866,18185 etc, and this thread will be obsolete
    Don`t steal - the Government doesn`t like the competition


  • z4kir
    z4kir Posts: 455 Forumite
    Fishtext is from your mobile, you can download the application here: http://wap.fishtext.com/FishText.jad

    Seems that it actually costs 2p to text UK numbers... Vyke offer the same service but charge $0.02 so 1p
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