texting a friend in columbia

snow patrol · 30 May 2010 at 14:13

hi all, i'm just wondering about how expensive etc it is to send texts to a friend of mine who's staying in columbia for a short while. She will have a columbian mobile phone that she's borrowing from a friend. Is it possible from o2 and how much does it cost to send / receive ?

also, should i get some sort of bolt on to get free texts abroad?

edit: arrgh, sorry meant to post this in mobile forum (i guess that's the best place for it), please could a friendly mod move it.

Viper² · 30 May 2010 at 14:19

About 50p I think it is.

Liquidfox · 30 May 2010 at 14:20

50p a text when i'm texting while abroad, not sure when you're in the UK however.

SB118 · 30 May 2010 at 15:17

"2 kilos of brown"->send.

G-MAN2004 · 30 May 2010 at 15:20

Probably about 40-50 pence. If you're going to be texting her a lot, you can buy an international call and ext bolt-on for O2 (£5 I think) which allows you to send texts for about 10 pence and call from around 15 pence per minute.

bmi92 · 30 May 2010 at 16:21

I thought that if you were on contract it just counted for 4 or 5 of your allowance.

SiriusB · 30 May 2010 at 16:26

Which equals 40 to 50 pence!

Try this OP: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/email-to-sms/

You can send an email to their carrier's SMS gateway - and they receive as a text, while costing you nothing.

I use it all the time to text friends in Alaska and Germany. They can reply to the text too, you receive it as an email. Though not sure if it will cost any more/less than a normal text for your friend. Both my friends have free international texting.

snow patrol · 30 May 2010 at 20:48

thanks folks, will look into this more.

Amp34 · 30 May 2010 at 21:22

I had a similar "issue" a couple of years back. I was the one that was away however so I just texted the people from my in country sim card and got the people to text back to my normal sim. That way they don't pay more and I only pay a little more (which was paid for by the company)...