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  • Silk
    Silk Posts: 4,836 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture
    You only start to use up the £15 if you go outside the free calls/texts/data.
    If you get down to £2 credit you get a text warning you so you can top up if required
    You don't need to be in credit though to still use the free calls etc although it's handy to have a sfety net to fall back on ;)
    It's not just about the money
  • kaya
    kaya Posts: 2,465 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    I have a redemption deal found on a price comparison website , I'm on orange and get 500txts and 100mins a month in my contract , my total each month after I receive my cash back redemption is a whopping 43p per month , beat that one of you can :-)
  • grumbler
    grumbler Posts: 58,629 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    kaya wrote: »
    ... beat that one of you can :-)
    Anybody asked for 100 minutes here?
  • acc
    acc Posts: 463 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Name Dropper
    Herongull wrote: »
    Ovivo and Fishtext.

    Ovivo gives you 100 minutes, 100 texts and 400mb free each month.

    You could just use Whatsapp instead of the extra 300 texts (eg if you were frequently texting a small group of people).

    Alternatively if you really want texts rather than instant messaging (which is what Whatsapp is), use fishtext.

    Fishtexts cost 2p per text (in the UK), so 300 extra texts will cost you £6 per month.
    Are there any Android apps that can send text messages free, or is Fishtext the cheapest at 2p?

    I thought apps like Go SMS Pro would send a text message using the data allowance, but Go SMS Pro still uses the text allowance.
  • Ovio sounds amazingly good for me whos is a pretty low end user. Want to get an iphone 5 at some point but might as well wait for the 5s to be announced. Ovio sounds like the perfect place to jump ship to.
  • Herongull
    Herongull Posts: 1,356 Forumite
    Eighth Anniversary Combo Breaker
    acc wrote: »
    Are there any Android apps that can send text messages free, or is Fishtext the cheapest at 2p?

    I thought apps like Go SMS Pro would send a text message using the data allowance, but Go SMS Pro still uses the text allowance.

    AFAIK fishtext is the cheapest for texts (as opposed to instant messaging like Whatsapp).
  • LCR
    LCR Posts: 40 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary Combo Breaker
    edited 11 March 2013 at 5:32AM
    Yeah I'm not factoring in cashback at all

    I dont wanna pay for things she's not going to use, so 250 texts and mins is totally enough

    She only uses about 150 texts at the moment and on average about 50 mins, but there's months when she's been to about 200 mins

    • Ovivo Mobile, after three months of topping up £10/month & pay the difference for months with extra usage after.
    • Vectone Mobile, £5/month sim-only, Popular 300 plan; 300mins/300texts/300MB/Vectone to Vectone 1000 FREE mins & 1000 FREE texts. (No commitment/cancel at any time)
  • geordie_ben
    geordie_ben Posts: 3,118 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary
    Ovivo seems like it's gonna be the best one
  • geordie_ben
    geordie_ben Posts: 3,118 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary
    Are any of you with Ovivo? If so, PM me your referral link as that's the deal I'm going to go with
  • john1002
    john1002 Posts: 985 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts
    Im also going to go with ovivo so if any other person wants to PM me then i will use there referral.

    Thanks

    John
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