Best way of sending international texts

What's the best way of sending international texts. Texts are included
in my tariff but international texts are charged. I've been using
picture messages since these are the same price everywhere and are
international MMS are taken out of my picture message bundle. Sadly
quite a few MMS messages dissappear. Works 80% of the time. Texts get
there 95% of the time (still bloody unreliable!) but cost me ££££.

Choices?

On 22/11/07 13:50, Big Bird wrote:
> What's the best way of sending international texts. Texts are included
> in my tariff but international texts are charged. I've been using
> picture messages since these are the same price everywhere and are
> international MMS are taken out of my picture message bundle. Sadly
> quite a few MMS messages dissappear. Works 80% of the time. Texts get
> there 95% of the time (still bloody unreliable!) but cost me ££££.
>
> Choices?

email

--
David Kennedy

http://www.anindianinexile.com

* David Kennedy wrote:
> On 22/11/07 13:50, Big Bird wrote:
>> What's the best way of sending international texts. Texts are included
>> in my tariff but international texts are charged. I've been using
>> picture messages since these are the same price everywhere and are
>> international MMS are taken out of my picture message bundle. Sadly
>> quite a few MMS messages dissappear. Works 80% of the time. Texts get
>> there 95% of the time (still bloody unreliable!) but cost me ££££.
>>
>> Choices?
>
> email
>

The person I'm sending to doesn't own a computer. need to be able to
send a SMS or MMS to them in a cost effective way. Does sending SMS
over GPRS avoid costs and charge me data usage instead? I've got data
included in my tariff.

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:50:09 +0000, Big Bird <big.bird@aol.com> wrote:
>What's the best way of sending international texts. Texts are included
>in my tariff but international texts are charged. I've been using
>picture messages since these are the same price everywhere and are
>international MMS are taken out of my picture message bundle. Sadly
>quite a few MMS messages dissappear. Works 80% of the time. Texts get
>there 95% of the time (still bloody unreliable!) but cost me ££££.
>
>Choices?

<http://www.1899.com/sms.php> perhaps?

Messages cost 1p each to send, and can be configured so they appear to
come from your mobile.
--
Martin Jay

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:50:09 +0000, Big Bird <big.bird@aol.com> wrote:
>
>What's the best way of sending international texts. Texts are included
>in my tariff but international texts are charged. I've been using
>picture messages since these are the same price everywhere and are
>international MMS are taken out of my picture message bundle. Sadly
>quite a few MMS messages dissappear. Works 80% of the time. Texts get
>there 95% of the time (still bloody unreliable!) but cost me ££££.

If it's ok to use your PC, then have a look at www.voipwise.com. They
offer free SMSs to a lot of countries (see list below). But watch out!
They constantly alter the list, in order to make you lose tracks and
actually pay for SMSs to countries you thought were free! You also
have to charge charge your account. I think minimum is 10 euros.

Argentina
Australia
Austria
Bangladesh
Belarus
Brazil
Bulgaria
Canada
Chile
Colombia
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
Greece
Greenland
Hongkong
Iceland
India
Iraq
Ireland
Japan
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Malaysia
Malta
New Zealand
Norway
Pakistan
Peru
Singapore
Slovak Republic
Slovenia
South Korea
Spain
Switzerland
Thailand
Venezuela


They also offer free calls to a lot of countries too. But watch out
here too!

Australia
Austria
Belgium
Canada
Chile
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Greenland
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Portugal
Singapore
Slovak Republic
Slovenia
South Korea
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
United Kingdom
United States (+mobile)

Martin Jay <martin@spam-free.org.uk> wrote:
> <http://www.1899.com/sms.php> perhaps?

http://www.m1.be/ allows sending from a mobile - you send them a text
beginning with the destination number and they forward it. Or you can
register a default number to send to if you don't supply a number in the
text. Payment is by topup in advance.

But it's not as cheap as it was, unless you're sending large volumes

Theo

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:08:23 +0000, Martin Jay
<martin@spam-free.org.uk> wrote:

>On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:50:09 +0000, Big Bird <big.bird@aol.com> wrote:
>>What's the best way of sending international texts. Texts are included
>>in my tariff but international texts are charged. I've been using
>>picture messages since these are the same price everywhere and are
>>international MMS are taken out of my picture message bundle. Sadly
>>quite a few MMS messages dissappear. Works 80% of the time. Texts get
>>there 95% of the time (still bloody unreliable!) but cost me ££££.
>>
>>Choices?
>
><http://www.1899.com/sms.php> perhaps?
>
>Messages cost 1p each to send, and can be configured so they appear to
>come from your mobile.

Do you know whether they can be configured so that they appear to
originate from a non-UK mobile?

Chris

On 22/11/07 14:20, Big Bird wrote:
> * David Kennedy wrote:
>> On 22/11/07 13:50, Big Bird wrote:
>>> What's the best way of sending international texts. Texts are included
>>> in my tariff but international texts are charged. I've been using
>>> picture messages since these are the same price everywhere and are
>>> international MMS are taken out of my picture message bundle. Sadly
>>> quite a few MMS messages dissappear. Works 80% of the time. Texts get
>>> there 95% of the time (still bloody unreliable!) but cost me ££££.
>>>
>>> Choices?
>> email
>>
>
> The person I'm sending to doesn't own a computer. need to be able to
> send a SMS or MMS to them in a cost effective way. Does sending SMS
> over GPRS avoid costs and charge me data usage instead? I've got data
> included in my tariff.

Don't they have email on their phone? Most of them do these days - can't
think off hand of one that doesn't - If you want reliability that is.

--
David Kennedy

http://www.anindianinexile.com

* David Kennedy wrote:
> Don't they have email on their phone? Most of them do these days - can't
> think off hand of one that doesn't - If you want reliability that is.

The other persons phone is quite cheap. Lucky it even has MMS on it.
Telling them to upgrade their phone is not really an answer plus is a
bit harsh on them. Really it's not their fault that so many of my texts
or MMSs go missing. Especially when I'm being charged all the same.

"Chris Blunt" <chris_blunt@spamfence.net> wrote in message
news:n9qck3p0m23h6vpn1uc5c6olqjuoc4u5j6@4ax.com...
> On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:08:23 +0000, Martin Jay
> <martin@spam-free.org.uk> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:50:09 +0000, Big Bird <big.bird@aol.com> wrote:
>>>What's the best way of sending international texts. Texts are included
>>>in my tariff but international texts are charged. I've been using
>>>picture messages since these are the same price everywhere and are
>>>international MMS are taken out of my picture message bundle. Sadly
>>>quite a few MMS messages dissappear. Works 80% of the time. Texts get
>>>there 95% of the time (still bloody unreliable!) but cost me ££££.
>>>
>>>Choices?
>>
>><http://www.1899.com/sms.php> perhaps?
>>
>>Messages cost 1p each to send, and can be configured so they appear to
>>come from your mobile.
>
> Do you know whether they can be configured so that they appear to
> originate from a non-UK mobile?

You have to register and pay bills by DD or Credit card with continuous
mandate.
It can be configured to come from your registered numbers. You should only
register telephone numbers you authorise to make calls using 1899 . All
costs for calls made from telephone numbers registered to your account will
be charged to your account.
It does not specifically say the mobile number must be UK number but I do
not know if it would accept any other. Also, you have to make an occasional
call from the mobile via their service (once a month, I think), otherwise
the mobile number will no longer be available, only fixed line number.

divoch

Big Bird wrote:
> What's the best way of sending international texts. Texts are included
> in my tariff but international texts are charged. I've been using
> picture messages since these are the same price everywhere and are
> international MMS are taken out of my picture message bundle. Sadly
> quite a few MMS messages dissappear. Works 80% of the time. Texts get
> there 95% of the time (still bloody unreliable!) but cost me ££££.
>
> Choices?

Hello,

I have the international Bold on on an O2 PAYG and the text cost me 10
pence (actually 2 pence cheeper then O2 contract with ITS, cant
understand that but does not realy matter) and it works fine for me, I
can not recall that a text got lost or so.

http://www.o2international.co.uk/cal...lerBolton.aspx

Bye
Omiwahn