Guest fozzie Posted June 12, 2003 Report Posted June 12, 2003 Just noticed on the Orange List that from July, the price for international texts shoots up to 15p. Even more reason to use Planus :lol:
Guest SirGaz Posted June 12, 2003 Report Posted June 12, 2003 Handly send any texts anyway, almost always use email. Never send international texts so not an issue for me
Guest fozzie Posted June 12, 2003 Report Posted June 12, 2003 hmmm, I'm sure there's loads of people that don't send international texts but for those people that do, it is an issue! Hence me posting this to let those people know. 15p through Orange or under 4p through Planus. No comparison :lol:
Guest DamianJauregui Posted June 12, 2003 Report Posted June 12, 2003 What's the address for Planus then? And can you send them directly from your handset? Does this mean using a different SMC number than your telco's? So so many questions. :lol:
Guest awarner [MVP] Posted June 12, 2003 Report Posted June 12, 2003 Have a look in the Planus Section of the site :lol: http://smartphone.modaco.com/viewforum.php?f=28
Guest Big Ron - No Longer a Mem Posted June 12, 2003 Report Posted June 12, 2003 Or... you could use the £4 GPRS WAP Access Pack to send text-only emails. Unlimited length, no "send more than 160 characters, and we charge you for TWO messages" and send as many as you want each month for £4. All you need is a WAP phone, GPRS access, and an Orange.co.uk email account - which is free. I suggested that Orange might be trying to kill-off SMS back when they launched the heavily subsidized GPRS WAP back in February. Now they're hiking the SMS price, it looks even more likely. Although, given that they're ALSO giving away free SMS messages to new subscribers... maybe it's just paranoia on my part. Orange just aren't that subtle - or capable of that degree of organisation/co-ordination. This, remember is the company that's currently running a major sales drive to shift SPV's in Bristol at a time when their website claims they're out of stock, and they're facing an injuction to prevent sales any day. "Hey, yeah! That looks like a FANTASTIC phone. I'll buy one!" "Sorry sir, we don't have any" "Well, I'll ORDER one. When do expect to have them instock again?" "About a week after Sendo slaps a court order on us preventing us from selling them." Now THAT sounds more like the Orange we all know.
Guest fraser Posted June 12, 2003 Report Posted June 12, 2003 This just hacks me off. Companies charging more than anything is worth. An SMS message is about 200 bytes of data. Yes, bytes, 1 fifth of a kilobyte. It costs them absolutely nothing. They never used to charge extra for this, they really are taking the piss by deliberatly imposing an artifical cost on international texts.
Guest ajb3000 Posted June 13, 2003 Report Posted June 13, 2003 It's not really an artificial cost when sending, some networks charge rediculously high termination fees for sending an sms to one of their customers, and this unfortunately has to be paid for by the consumer.
Guest Big Ron - No Longer a Mem Posted June 13, 2003 Report Posted June 13, 2003 This just hacks me off. Companies charging more than anything is worth.... Companies will charge what people will PAY. A couple of years back, an audit of UK software prices showed that for every quarter from the previous three years, software prices - adjusted for inflation - had FALLEN. Software that is, produced by EVERY publisher except ONE. I don't have to tell you which company's software had RISEN in price, against the tide, SURELY?!
Guest stupiddolphin Posted June 13, 2003 Report Posted June 13, 2003 Or... you could use the £4 GPRS WAP Access Pack to send text-only emails. Unlimited length, no "send more than 160 characters, and we charge you for TWO messages" and send as many as you want each month for £4. All you need is a WAP phone, GPRS access, and an Orange.co.uk email account - which is free. I suggested that Orange might be trying to kill-off SMS back when they launched the heavily subsidized GPRS WAP back in February. Now they're hiking the SMS price, it looks even more likely. Although, given that they're ALSO giving away free SMS messages to new subscribers... maybe it's just paranoia on my part. Orange just aren't that subtle - or capable of that degree of organisation/co-ordination. This, remember is the company that's currently running a major sales drive to shift SPV's in Bristol at a time when their website claims they're out of stock, and they're facing an injuction to prevent sales any day. "Hey, yeah! That looks like a FANTASTIC phone. I'll buy one!" "Sorry sir, we don't have any" "Well, I'll ORDER one. When do expect to have them instock again?" "About a week after Sendo slaps a court order on us preventing us from selling them." Now THAT sounds more like the Orange we all know. Big Ron, How does the GRPS email thing work for free SMS, the guide says that you must have an email address in the To box in order to end an email. Surly if the network identified an SMS number not an email it will send an SMS and you will be charged at the normal rate? If I am wrong, could I use my exisiting non-orange pop3 email a/c to send the messages or is it specific to the orange email acount? Cheers James
Guest fozzie Posted June 13, 2003 Report Posted June 13, 2003 How does the GRPS email thing work for free SMS, It doesn't! As Big Ron said above, it's for "text-only emails".
Guest Big Ron - No Longer a Mem Posted June 13, 2003 Report Posted June 13, 2003 Exactly. Question being, if YOU have a (free) email a/c, your mate has a (free) email a/c, you've both got dirt-cheap GPRS WAP access (and both have GPRS and WAP capable phones) and you want to send a message consisting of ASCII text to your mate... why the hell would you WANT to use SMS? It costs more, offers zero obvious advantages, and is restricted to 160 characters per message on a "Pay per message" basis - whereas GPRS WAP is "flat rate" - send as many any-length email messages as you want for £4 a month. (Aside from the other WAP services!)
Guest Bagpuss Posted June 13, 2003 Report Posted June 13, 2003 I'm on the OVP O2-100 tariff, where international texts cost me about 12p each. Anyone know if this is affected by the price rise, or is just for 'normal' Orange tariffs? Ta, Dave
Guest Posted June 13, 2003 Report Posted June 13, 2003 I would imagine that OVP tarrifs remain as they are for the network that they are matching - so you should remain on 12p international SMS. Unless O2 follow suit.....
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