Free Texts?

reverse_side

Forgive my newbie-ism, though I've clicked thru many of the useful 139 pages of posts and searched the whole site.... but I can't see any threads for enabling me to send out free texts to mobiles. If the owners&Admin of this site offer such things as 'Tart Alerts' for free, is there an avenue of opportunity for us to use this service, or are there any members with recommendations for kosher sites they use?
I worry that by registering with these sites that I'll open the doors to hundreds of spam texts, or worse still, my friends will frown everytime they get one too.
The site I eventually risked a while ago was CardBoardFish but the fee paying 'Coporate' service is the option that's only ever available while the Free Flavour is alway 'unavail'. :mad: I've never yet been able to send a message and wait for any possible sales calls and/or texts; including a test while I posted this.
If only we had a similar service the U.S. have where you can actually add a mobile number to an email domain and the recipient gets a text; or set it up as an email alert service via the text.
(I'd be using it to complement sending out my own email distribution lists for sending out information to a happy band of snooker players; some haven't got email access)
PS There's an email alert service provided by Vodafone that sends a text alert when you get an email, but it costs 12p so I'd rather use my cunning workaround than risk paying £1.20 if I were to have a busy inbox with 10 emails dropping in. (You'd need to have a contract and have them add VodafoneMail on; which at least is free and enables you to use your mobile number to send and receive faxes as well as emails & voicemail saved as wav files on your PC)


[edit: cardboard just came through :rolleyes: received the text virtually straight away, but it went offline straight after too... I'll let you know if my phone gets full to the brim of spam! does ne1 else have a phone that WON'T RECEIVE A MESSAGE just coz their sim's full? Sharp GX30 suffers this prob]

thefirs

Orange contract users can send 30 texts per month. The message is free when you select the "....from Orange.net and 079xx.." option (it costs full price if you remove the ad for Orange).

The also offer a free text alert service for incoming email to an @orange.net address.

reverse_side

so is that a PC-to-Mobile website option? (looking back on my post, it's not that obvious I meant I was loking for a Web-Based solution was it , It'd be great if it supported grouped distribution list type options too )

vansboy

If you register on https://www.o2.co.uk - not have to be o2 network with your mobile- you can send 10 texts/month free. Or more at discounted rate.

VB

angelatgraceland

Ive tried many internet sites which say you can text for free but most of them just do not deliver. I resorted to buying a sim for orange on ebay which has the original 5 free texts per day for ever but this costs about £60 to buy as they are rare. The downside of this is that you cant topup online/creditcard/change security details etc as its registered in someone elses name and if you did re register it you then lose the 5 free texts forever-so thats just a wordd of warning if you decide to get one of these sims. In saying that-I have 2 of the but I am very careful not to put in wrong codes etc cos you also cant get the sim unlocked unless you are the original owner. I know this is going off the thread a little but I still feel its relevant.

thefirs

so is that a PC-to-Mobile website option?

Yes, from the Orange website.

Ive tried many internet sites which say you can text for free but most of them just do not deliver

I've never had any problem with instant delivery of these texts.

coolsteel

angelatgraceland wrote:

Ive tried many internet sites which say you can text for free but most of them just do not deliver. I resorted to buying a sim for orange on ebay which has the original 5 free texts per day for ever but this costs about £60 to buy as they are rare. The downside of this is that you cant topup online/creditcard/change security details etc as its registered in someone elses name and if you did re register it you then lose the 5 free texts forever-so thats just a wordd of warning if you decide to get one of these sims. In saying that-I have 2 of the but I am very careful not to put in wrong codes etc cos you also cant get the sim unlocked unless you are the original owner. I know this is going off the thread a little but I still feel its relevant.

Hi if you register your mobile on the O2 site, you dont have to be an O2 customer then you get 30 free texts per month.
Coolsteel :cool:

smcicr

as an aside - if you wanted a LOT of pc based texts and you needed a new phone then maybe there are other places doing deals like this?

http://www.digital-phone.co.uk/mobilephoneshop/mobilephonedeals/details.asp?id=72