The Great Free Text Messages Hunt

MSE_Martin

There are a number of websites offering free text messages to UK Mobiles off the internet.

My current favourite is

http://www.cbfsms.com which offers unlimited free texts without the need to register

Please reply to this message to report other free texting services, and details of what is providered.

More on texting from the Intenet

Of course you lose the flexibility of being able to text on the move, yet for texting from home it’s a very useful system. Be prepared to have a line of advertising attached to the end of your message though.

A couple of tips for sending texts from the internet.
Always sign your name. The messages don’t come from your phone, so the number doesn’t appear on the message. Let people know it is you who sent them.
People cannot immediately reply. As your number doesn’t appear, it isn’t possible for people to simply reply and send a message back to you.

Queueing. Sometimes messages via the internet take longer as they need to be queued. On very bad days this can take hours.

circuit

o2 online give 30 free messages a month from their web interface. I signed up when I ordered some 99p SIMs but was able to access the rest of My o2 including the text message area - even though I had an Orange phone number.

monomer

Nothing much to add personally, but thought that it might be useful to list a couple of links to other threads that have also touched on this subject:

Thread started by Alice_B:

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=Free;action=display;num=1064839457

Thread started by ccluedo (Thread on International text from your computer mentioned by Martin above - also works for texts to the UK too):

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=news;action=display;num=1067541616

Ricky

If you have an Orange phone & register for Orange E-mail, then you can send 30 free text messages per month over the internet, to your friends' & families' phones!!
Ricky

System

I use and have been using free online SMS (text message) sending services for years - here's a few I use to help you along.

https://www.o2.co.uk - as previously said 30 free a month - pretty reliable and easy to use
https://www.118.com - 10 free a day - very useful, I find that's enough for most days and then I have a new lot the next day !
https://www.fonetastic.com - 5 free a day - a bit more confusing and it works by making you choose a website as an ad link to then send off your text message so you do sometimes end up with lots of browsers and pop ups open.
https://www.boltblue.com - 5 free a day - reliable
https://www.lycos.co.uk - not sure how many a day.

and lots more....

This link is good for finding free SMS providers
http://www.freebielist.com/phone.htm

I hope this helps anyone who is looking !
Thanks
Lorna ;D

lisyloo

If you have an Orange phone & register for Orange E-mail, then you can send 30 free text messages per month over the internet, to your friends' & families' phones!!
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Do you have a link for this?
I've looked on the orange web site but can't see anything about the free texts.

Thanks

System

I use Orange for texing all the time with no problems
and its free:D

lisyloo

Just remebered.
I'm on the Orange Value Plan and pay on the Virgin Tarriff so I probably can't get the free texts.

pakman

Hey  lisyloo

https://www.orange.net/services

U'll have to register UR fone on the site.

Can send txt 2 any UK phone.

(sometimes it says 'not sent' - although it has gone)

Pak

N.B Being a Virgin will not prevent U from using this site :P

lisyloo

Thanks for the info

uungy

another way to send free sms

http://www.clickatell.com/central/messenger/messenger_display.php?sku=20010706103425&protocol=1

no registering required