What is the best text only tariff?

Steve_Grant

Hi all,

My wife is currently on Orange and for the past year has being using the 1825 TextSaver option on her PAYG phone. The TextSaver option finishes in a couple of days so I tried to renew it... but, oh no, Orange no longer do it anymore. Instead they'd like her to pay £8 per month for the same thing! :mad: Cheeky so-and-so's!

Firstly, is this true? The old 1825 saver was a cracking deal, perhaps too good for the consumer! Five free texts a day for a whole year for £10, hmm, rather good!

If it is true, what are my wife's alternatives? We're open to suggestions - contract or Pay as you go tariffs, blots-on and moving to another provider, as long as using it doesn't bankrupt us. My wife prefers text messaging, sending around 10 a day on average - but hardly ever uses the phone to actually phone people!

So any advice would be great!

Thanks,
Steve

kai666

O2 online sim cards give you 300 text messages a month for £10, and you get to keep the £10 for calls

http://shop.o2.co.uk/cgi-bin/o2uk/jsp/tariffs/selectTariff.do?menu=y

or orange do a contract which is text only....3000 a month for £20

http://shop.orange.co.uk/shop/yourplan/totaliser

bbb_uk

kai666 wrote:

O2 online sim cards give you 300 text messages a month for £10, and you get to keep the £10 for calls

http://shop.o2.co.uk/cgi-bin/o2uk/jsp/tariffs/selectTariff.do?menu=y

The above link listed all of o2's online tariffs. This link is a direct link to the tariff that kai666 was referring to. Another way of looking at it is that for £10 you get 400 texts (300 are free the next 100 charged at 10p per text and therefore using the £10 you topped-up with).

Hope this makes sense?

izzy_flint

Steve_Grant wrote:

Hi all,

My wife is currently on Orange and for the past year has being using the 1825 TextSaver option on her PAYG phone. The TextSaver option finishes in a couple of days so I tried to renew it... but, oh no, Orange no longer do it anymore. Instead they'd like her to pay £8 per month for the same thing! :mad: Cheeky so-and-so's!

Firstly, is this true? The old 1825 saver was a cracking deal, perhaps too good for the consumer! Five free texts a day for a whole year for £10, hmm, rather good!

If it is true, what are my wife's alternatives? We're open to suggestions - contract or Pay as you go tariffs, blots-on and moving to another provider, as long as using it doesn't bankrupt us. My wife prefers text messaging, sending around 10 a day on average - but hardly ever uses the phone to actually phone people!

So any advice would be great!

Thanks,
Steve

Orange are GITS for this sort of thing.I bought the outhere sim pack for £15 a couple of years ago being told that buying it would get me 5 free texts a day for life only to receive a letter a few months later being told they are stopping it and I wont be entitled to a refund.After a few phone calls of protesting they said I could have 3 free texts a day so I told them to shove it where the sun don't shine and give me the PAC code and transferred my number to o2 where I have been very happy with my 300 free texts a month that are still going now after about 40 days and 500 texts later still not using up any of the £10 top up I originally topped up with :):)

kai666

I got the outhere sim with the 5 free text messages for life. never got any letter, and am still using it now. Even just upgraded my phone and sim. Still get the 5 free texts a day. Over the years must have saved me hundreds

Edinburghlass_2

I too have the Orange five free sims for life. They did send out letters saying you would get 3 and have to pay an annual charge but so many people complained of their breach of contract that they were forced to back down and in fact refunded the cost of texts that had been charged for.

:money:

wendytiggermad

Hmmmm up to 500 free texts ?? not used original top up (scratching head) come on let us in on your secret

wendytiggermad

Steve_Grant wrote:

Hi all,

My wife is currently on Orange and for the past year has being using the 1825 TextSaver option on her PAYG phone. The TextSaver option finishes in a couple of days so I tried to renew it... but, oh no, Orange no longer do it anymore. Instead they'd like her to pay £8 per month for the same thing! :mad: Cheeky so-and-so's!

Firstly, is this true? The old 1825 saver was a cracking deal, perhaps too good for the consumer! Five free texts a day for a whole year for £10, hmm, rather good!

If it is true, what are my wife's alternatives? We're open to suggestions - contract or Pay as you go tariffs, blots-on and moving to another provider, as long as using it doesn't bankrupt us. My wife prefers text messaging, sending around 10 a day on average - but hardly ever uses the phone to actually phone people!

So any advice would be great!

Thanks,
Steve

Three cheers for o2 300 free texts Grreat i've had mine since it started.. its Brill

RaihanT

theres a student tariff from orange i believe that gives u 1000 txts per month. not sure of the details but im sure the orange people will know about it