Free International Texts

[mobaholic]

I have just come across an interesting site, claiming to forward texts to selected foreign destinations for free.       

http://www.freetextsabroad.com/       

The selected destinations are shown here.       

I have not tried it yet, but would be interested to see how it works in practice.

Anyone have any experience of using this service ?       

[Mikael]

Yes, this is a service operated by one of my suppliers. They took an idea of mine and have implemented it. However I'm working on a better service which will have greater coverage and more features.

[HiPD]

Yes, this is a service operated by one of my suppliers. They took an idea of mine and have implemented it. However I'm working on a better service which will have greater coverage and more features.

We can sympathise with you Mikael if they pinched your idea.   

But if the idea was yours first of all, isn't it somewhat remiss of you not to get your service working first?   

If your superior service was working already, there would be less temptation for others to launch inferior versions I should have thought. 

[Mikael]

Well they were going to run a service for me, but they were never able to commit to getting the features I wanted. They just launched it in its most basic form. It is not a problem, as I am hopefully going to get the service I want to run going very soon.

[HiPD]

OK sorry Mikael.  I await your service eagerly. 

[petkow]

Interesting service. I just tried it to one of the destinations, and it was nice that my ID went through with the message. Also it is fast! However it was not clear from the response that I got whether both parts of the multi-part message went through or not. Does anyone know if multiple messages are supported?

Also the HTML title of the page seems to say "Cheap 0871 calls".  Is this another plan of theirs, or a mistake?

[petkow]

To answer my own question, I just found out that multi-SMS does not work. Each part needs the header number so that their system knows where to send it to. So you are limited to the length of one message minus the space required to write the full international number of the recipient in the body of the text.

I wonder if it would be possible to change the message center number in the phone settings to this number, and send direct? I do not know enough about how SMS works but I presume this will not work, as you still need the base operators message center number for sending to any recipient. Or would there be a way?

[mobaholic]

Helpful posts: thanks petkow.       

[guy-london]

hi
I just checked from my t-mobile its working fine and i am not charge even a single pane.
Thanks very much for this

[seanjoe]

i have tried sending to a new zealand mobile, but no luck. did it with the +xxx and msg. of just a few words. can anyone tell me how long it takes to send. i have the nz mobile on roaming here in the uk and can receive text messages at no cost. but no message is coming through?

[petkow]

It usually only takes a few seconds. At least in my case (to Bahrain) that's what it did!

I take it you are typing +642xxxxxxxx (11 numbers total) and then the message? To be honest, I had my doubts as to whether NZ would really work, as unlike some of the other destinations that it offers, the wholesale SMS rates to NZ are a little on the higher side. I have a few friends there that I was wanting to test on as well. I will report back if it works.

[delaro]

There's no Poland or Germany on the free international text list, so I won't even bother with it, but by all means Mikael let us know once your service is ready and running (and offers these 2 countries). It's quite comic for my friends abroad when I tell them I can call them virtually for free but have to pay to text them 

Regards

dlR

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[mike]

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