The Great Free Text Messages Hunt

Kelly_3

u can send 5 free msgs a day on https://www.virginstudent.com ... u have to register ur phone and all that malarky, but 5 is better than none, and i´ve never had any problems with it!

System

I was very pleased to read that I could save on text messaging by using 118 888 - so I 'gave it a go' - it worked - excellent - but ................ Two days later, the website was closed down. Where do we go from here? Any other bright ideas please? ???

monomer

This is not a new site to send txts from, but if you use O₂'s free txt system but aren't too happy about its interface, there's a windows program called egenie that you can use. It utilises your O₂ quota to send txts, so you need an account with O₂ first:

http://egenie.wibble.org.uk/

I've not had a go at it yet, so can't report on how good it is. As always, before you use anything you download, run it through a good up-to-date antivirus program first. I'm sure everyone knew that already

System

Hi folks

I get junk SMSs to my phone, and am concerned that giving my mates tel numbers via web site may well get them SPAMED, which as we all know is not good :-[ .....



Ideas?

Thanks hey!

merlin

System

You can send 10 free SMSs a week by signing up at http://www.1rstwap.com/partners/go.to/1rstwap.

Benfits of this one are you can 'flash-it' so that the text message comes straight up on the screen of your friends phone. Also the message actually appears to come from your mobile number so people can reply to your phone.[url][/url]

europa

Now that 1rstwap.com has revamped its website, one is no longer able to send more than a couple of free sms per week. Anyone know of another INTERNATIONAL free sms service that compares to the service and reliabilty of the old 1rstwap.com?

Cheers, Rik

agent007_2

I get junk SMSs to my phone, and am concerned that giving my mates tel numbers via web site may well get them SPAMED, which as we all know is not good

This is also of great concern to me. Does anyone recommending these services have information on whether or not such spamming has ever resulted?

Because of this concern, the only (free) one I've tried is the Lycos one. Not recommended - very unreliable with only about 50% of messages actually arriving.

System

I use ICQLite which has a built in SMS facility to send my texts. I've used it a number of times and had no spam from them. I've even sent texts to Australia and had no problems. I'm not sure if there is a limit to the number of texts you can send though, I've not seen anything saying so.

europa

Whenever I have tried to use ICQLite to send sms, it has never worked!

System

You can send text messages if you sign up for lycos messenger - although I am not sure of the amount you can send, its not loads.

But the good thing about this one is you can set-up your sign in name as whatever you want, and the text message says its from "your username" - you can actually set up more than one sign in too.

You used to be able to reply to these via the web, although I don't know if you still can, cos haven't done it for ages.