Cheapest Text Allowance Per Month

SALOPMAN

My Daughter uses about 1500 texts a month and has been on 02 pay as u go - which has given 300 free texts but she wants to know what would be best to get more free texts in a package, she looked at the orange website but the 1000 free texts on payg looked a bit confusing, she not fussed on supplier or x-mins just best deal on texts.

reehsetin

basically the orange PAUG thing is like a bonus for topping up
before it was purely you top up £10 you get 10% extra credit (£11), for £20 you get 20% extra (£24) etc now theyve exchanged the extra credit for texts (think they are just to other oranges tho
if you top up £20 you get 200 texts, £30 is 300 texts etc

the pay monthly deal would be better as that comes with 1000 texts
e.g. 0 mins 500 texts (plus the 1000 extra per month in the promo) is 1500 texts per month for £25 [am 90% sure that you can use that deal with the text promo ill try and check tomorrow]
only prob is has to be 18month contract, but you can trade in an old phone (you'll get a really decent one free with that anyway!) and get £100 back for it so 4 months free

richardjames73

T mobile do a package called text appeal. No free texts but all texts are charged at 3p regardless of how many texts that are sent. Probably works out better than the o2 deal you are currently on. Vodafone are also doing an offer you get all calls and texts free at the weekend providing you spend over £5 monday to friday. You could incorporate this with the £20 text pack they do. 675 texts for £20

matrix999

My goodness 1500 texts per month!! Does she have a sore thumb at the end of each month

mdean

Virgin currently offer 1000 free texts a month
only over the summer

Edinburghlass_2

mdean wrote:

Virgin currently offer 1000 free texts a month
only over the summer

The Virgin offer is only free texts between Virgin users though so take care if using this

reehsetin

richardjames73 wrote:

T mobile do a package called text appeal. No free texts but all texts are charged at 3p regardless of how many texts that are sent. Probably works out better than the o2 deal you are currently on. Vodafone are also doing an offer you get all calls and texts free at the weekend providing you spend over £5 monday to friday. You could incorporate this with the £20 text pack they do. 675 texts for £20

but o2 and orange do 300 for £10 top up so works out the same except with orange and o2 you get the credit to use aswell so dont think its all that great
£10 - tmob - 300 texts
orange/02 - think its like 12p max per text with 300 free = 383 ish

[Deleted User]

If she tops up by £30 a month she can get 1000 free texts on the o2 '300' free sms sim. 500 for £20 and the usual 300 for £10. With all credit going for calls etc.

It's one of O2's new free allowances. Details on O2's website.

seaniboy

orange contract 3000 for £20, available online, you could bar outgoing calls via a pin on the handset if your worried about her running the bill up

or orange payg texts packs are from 3p, combine that with 1000 free texts for topping up ??

fbrj

SALOPMAN wrote:

My Daughter uses about 1500 texts a month and has been on 02 pay as u go - which has given 300 free texts but she wants to know what would be best to get more free texts in a package, she looked at the orange website but the 1000 free texts on payg looked a bit confusing, she not fussed on supplier or x-mins just best deal on texts.

If your daughter is a student (you have to provide UCAS/NUS number) have a look at this from Vodafone. My daughter is also a heavy text user and this was the best we could find. Free Samsung handset, £25/month 18 month contract, UNLIMITED texts, 125 x-net mins (can also use these mins in their "Stop the clock"....phone mobile or landline between 7pm and 8am and only get charged for 1st 3 mins)

http://shop.vodafone.co.uk/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.viewOffersPayMonthlyHandsetDetails&action=getPayMonthlyHandsetDetails&intHandsetID=334&variationID=275

Hope this helps...