Does anyone have any experience of sending free texts from pc to mobile and if so which programme do you recomend.

reggie wrote on Jul 15^th, 2007 at 2:13pm:

Does anyone have any experience of sending free texts from pc to mobile and if so which programme do you recomend.

If you are on Orange you can send 30 free messages per month on its website.

This site works for me

http://www.cbfsms.com/

Thanks Crabtree, Itried your site but it 's not working for me possibly because I have Zone Alarm Firewall.

Reggie.

I too have a Zonealarm Firewall and that was no problem to the CBFSMS website. However, the Pop-up Blocker from Google temporarily stopped their pop-ups, but you can temporarily allow that site for the duration of the use of the services. You have a couple of tick boxes that you MUST fill in to be able to send, but they're only a minor irritation.

Very useful if you have a friend that doesn't have a TEXT facility on their phone & they want to get hold of you from overseas. NO additional charges & a bit more immediate than an email.

Thanks Dave
I succeeded in sending a text to my own mobile and felt very chuffed. Then I tried to send one to my daughter who is travelling in Europe with a UK mobile and got the following error message after sending
Dear Internet User,

You are receiving this error page due to a problem with
the configuration of the advertisement javascript or html
coding. This error is isolated to a specific site or site
subsection. We apologize for any inconvience caused.

Do you know what this means?
I am assuming that the message wasn't sent!

Now did you notice that there was a tick box that would advise you the message had been sent ??

I'm assuming that you did leave the box ticked so you'd have got confirmation it had been sent ??

The advantage of them switching adverts each time is that if you'd sent it again, there would have been a different set of html & code so you would probably have sent it OK then.

Try it again if that happens.

reggie wrote on Jul 15^th, 2007 at 2:13pm:

Does anyone have any experience of sending free texts from pc to mobile and if so which programme do you recomend.

Theirs a long list of Free? Text Message Services here if its any help.

http://forum.niftylist.co.uk/index.php?topic=1264.0

As long as you register or are registered with BT.com you qualify. See https://www2.bt.com/smsbeta/

"BT's Web2SMS service is a Beta service that allows you to send up to 50 text messages per month from a web page."

Have you actually used this. I am registered with BT and can view my bill online however when I try to log on on this page nothing happens. When I try to register again it says my user name is already registered . I am not getting anywhere. Any ideas?

Thanks. I had a bit  I had a bit of trouble logging on but got there eventually. Do they charge the receiver to receive calls?

Not as far as I am aware.

I've used it a few times now to my OH's phone & as it's on the same phone bill as mine, I think I would have noticed any charges.  ::)

crabtree wrote on Jul 15^th, 2007 at 3:18pm:

This site works for me http://www.cbfsms.com/

In all the years I've tried this site I'm lucky if more than 2% ever get through, it's just so unreliable.

Since my first attempt (see above), I have used it six times more with 100% success so I suggest that people try it for themselves and see what happens. Don't just take our word for it; suck it and see.

It seems to do just what it sez on the tin !!  ::)

Hi there!

18185 now do text messages from your PC:

http://www.18185.co.uk/sms.php

I have received this email from the said company today.

James Bond

18185 is 1p
voipcheap.com is from 0.16 to 0.6p  http://www.voipcheap.com/en/smsrates.html
Same with voipstunt http://www.voipstunt.com/en/smsrates.html

a very nice man wrote on Jul 28^th, 2007 at 9:42am:

18185 is 1p voipcheap.com is from 0.16 to 0.6p  http://www.voipcheap.com/en/smsrates.html Same with voipstunt http://www.voipstunt.com/en/smsrates.html

Fine if you have credit with them,(which is a must), but the Finarea ones don't need credit and are paid in arrears

Hi yes www.o2.co.uk do free text was 30 a month think it 10 now but longer text ;) ;)

You can be on any network and still have the free 1s of 02 ;) ;)