PAYG Free Text Offers?

Carl.

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone could tell me of any PAYG networks which offer a free text allowance and allow you to use the credit.

I used to have it on Vodafone on 2 sim cards where you could top-up by £15 a month and you received 500 free text messages a month.

Sometime ago I changed the two numbers and I have only been topping up by £5/month for a while, however this month I topped up by the £15 to get the free texts, they weren't applied to my phone and I have phoned them to ask why this is and they say that there is no record of it being on my account.

The first person that I spoke to said that Vodafone had never even had such an offer despite the fact that two of my friends have it.

It was the Texts for Top-up Promotion and they are saying that this was taken off both phones when I ported a number onto one of them and when I had a number change on the other one despite the fact that I was at no point informed of this. In fact I was told everything on the two old numbers would be transferred to the two new numbers.

I now have to write in to Vodafone Head Office to obtain a mobile number I had 5 months ago so they can go through that history and find that I have been telling the truth all along AND then phone them back.

So enough is enough...

I'd really appreciate it if someone could advise about a PAYG network who give free texts on a monthly basis when you top up with them?

EDIT TO ADD:

I have just tried emailing them with my query via the website as the Customer Agent advised, only to discover that the stupid thing isn't working!

robin123_2

On one of the orange pay-as-you-go tariffs if you top up with £10 a month you get 300 messages and £4 worth of orange world access each month.

Carl.

And the tenner to spend on calls Robin?

everythingblogcast

You can do what ever you want with the tenner you can even not make any calls. You can start building up a nice total of credit on the sim. haha

lipsthefish

The o2 text anytime tarrif offers 300 texts for £10, 500 for £15 and 1000 for £30 top-ups, the credit is then yours to do as you wish with

richardjames73

With T-mobile if you top up £10 you get unlimited free evening and weekend texts and the £10 to do with as you wish.

http://www.t-mobile-campaign.co.uk/sim/?WT.mc_id=ON_QM_D_MSNHP

FREE evening and weekend texts offer
New pay as you go connections via the T-Mobile website only.

Subject to first top up within 28 days of receipt of your T-Mobile SIM card.
Free texts available from 7pm to 7am weekdays and 7pm Friday to 7am Monday.

Free texts are valid for one month dating from when we notify you by text they have been applied.

Subject to topping up by a minimum of £10 (in a single transaction) at or following the end of your previous free texts period. Free texts do not rollover and are for texts to the customers of UK mobile networks from the UK only. We will tell you when your free texts have expired.

Subject to a fair use policy of 3000 texts per month. T-Mobile will monitor use and if you use more than 3000 texts in any two months in a six month period, then T-Mobile will ask you to reduce your use. If use isn't reduced the next month, then T-Mobile will withdraw the offer from your account without further notice to you.

Carl.

I think I might look into the O2 option because the calls are cheaper and I already have a SIM card with them laying round somewhere.

Vodafone are fast going down in my estimation, their email contact is STILL down and now they are not connecting calls on their 191 number either, and to think I was seriously considering upgrading to a contract with them.

Carl.

richardjames73 wrote:

With T-mobile if you top up £10 you get unlimited free evening and weekend texts and the £10 to do with as you wish.

That'd be good but I am really looking for an anytime of the day kinda deal.

richardjames73

o2 cheaper? T Mobile is 12p to anynetwork anytime.

Carl.

I meant to landlines sorry.

I will be keeping my calls on Vodafone thanks to their Vodafone family deal (unlimited calls between 4 callers for £5/month or 6 callers for £7/month) and most of my friends are on Voda thanks to this, the free evening and weekend calls and the Texts for Top-Ups offer which they still have (the same one which Voda have taken off me for some reason).

FTD

Keep in mind,
On O2 you can have 1MB of GPRS for £3 (billed per Kb) so you can use apps like instant messaging (or wapsites that support it) to keep your costs down rather than pay for texts (after you have used your allowance up!).
Instant messaging is barred on t-mobile, and the costs per MB are dearer than O2 on the other networks.
1MB of GPRS will give you about 1500 -2000 IM's

FTD