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Old 06-11-2007, 21:42   #1
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text messages only OVER 1 billion sent a week!
Someones fingers is going to be sore never mind skint!!!!

BBC NEWS | Technology | Britons sending 1bn texts weekly
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how much money must O2,Orange be making :O
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Old 06-11-2007, 21:46   #3
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I send around 60 a day, sometimes upto 100!


But they are free, most of those billion will be free texts.
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Old 06-11-2007, 21:59   #4
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Re: text messages only OVER 1 billion sent a week!
Unfortuantely fo them the company that 'invented' SMS didn't patent it or they would be rather rich by now.

BTW its LogicaCMG

No real such thing as a free text, you pay for them as part of contract or a genie-esque top up on a PAYG. They will all have been paid for at some point
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Old 06-11-2007, 22:01   #5
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Nope, I have about 50 O2 accounts on o2.co.uk get 10 free texts a month, and you only need to top up a tenner and you get about 500 free texts or something.
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Old 06-11-2007, 22:07   #6
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Jae a tenner a month gets you three hundred texts but you are paying for them because you are spending at least that tenner to get your texts.
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Old 06-11-2007, 22:09   #7
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Jae a tenner a month gets you three hundred texts but you are paying for them because you are spending at least that tenner to get your texts.
Who pays for the ones sent from the o2 website for free?
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Old 06-11-2007, 22:11   #8
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Who pays for the ones sent from the o2 website for free?
Don't tell me you change your sim card for ten free texts
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Old 06-11-2007, 22:13   #9
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Don't tell me you change your sim card for ten free texts
On o2.co.uk you get 10 free texts a month, I use my friends/family's phones to register, I must have atleast 25 accounts on there. I never run out of texts on it.

Who pays for them?
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Old 06-11-2007, 22:13   #10
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Re: text messages only OVER 1 billion sent a week!
I don't tend to use text messages, but when I do I use o2.

Who's paying for the o2 texts? We are. We're paying about £15 a month for the internet, so we're paying for them if you think about it.
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Jae a tenner a month gets you three hundred texts but you are paying for them because you are spending at least that tenner to get your texts.
£10 a month gets you 300 minutes and 300 texts if you are with Virgin Media.
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Old 06-11-2007, 22:16   #12
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I don't tend to use text messages, but when I do I use o2.

Who's paying for the o2 texts? We are. We're paying about $15 a month for the internet, so we're paying for them if you think about it.

Nah, o2 is nothing to do with our internet providers..
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£10 a month gets you 300 free minutes and texts with o2, too.
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Re: text messages only OVER 1 billion sent a week!
you did when you bought a O2 Sim/phone etc. Also you will se ads on teh webpage which is using your internet bandwidth. so whether direct or indirectly, you pay for them
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[quote=Neil;490012]£10 a month gets you 300 minutes and 300 texts if you are with Virgin Media.[quote]Will have a look into that
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