O2 texts to Australia

bloodnok

Can someone tell me how much it costs to send a text to Australia.
I'm with O2 on a contract with loads of texts...........Do I get charged seperately from my inclusive texts or do they charge you two or three texts each ?
Thanks

Buzby

International texts are always charged seperately - so will not form part of any inclusive bundle. They'll be billed 25p each, but could be less if you have a call bundle that includes International calling.

bloodnok

Thanks, I think I'll stick to using the 18185 texting as it's only 1p per text to anywhere as far as I know.
Anybody know a better way to text internationally ?

redux

I've read people on here recently saying that 18185 tariffs went up.

There are some other possibilities discussed in an article by Martin and old and new discussion threads, mainly a number of mobile Java programs that send via the data connection instead, such as smsBug, mobisms, Vyke, Fishtext and the Betamax VoIP brands. Some of these have free messages between two subscribers who are both online. Vyke was popular but their tariffs went up too; Fishtext might be the one to go for at the moment.

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/phones/free-text-messages

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