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| 1450913 | 2018-06-23 23:59:00 | how does my android fone on spark send and receive text messages, when I am neither on cell data nor wifi? Why cant my landline on UFB do this? Will it ever be able to? The aging boomers who will retire soon wont wont expensive monthly data plans just to text the rellies. I see "Fones for oldies" type ads that say landline fones can send text so it must be available overseas? |
Apteryx (294) | ||
| 1450914 | 2018-06-24 01:23:00 | Your Android mobile sends text messages through the cellular network. | Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 1450915 | 2018-06-24 02:05:00 | Same way we sent text messages before data plans even existed | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1450916 | 2018-06-24 08:04:00 | The aging boomers who will retire soon wont wont expensive monthly data plans just to text the rellies. And we don't. I txt only on my old school phone. It's $19 a month from Spark. Some minutes but I never use them much. Another older f**t than me, he has a $15 plan, also Spark. These are old plans, you don't see them more, but in the secret obsolete plan vault, for those old school people, aha..... |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1450917 | 2018-06-24 08:33:00 | I'm on 2degrees prepay, costs me around $50 a year. | Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 1450918 | 2018-06-24 09:53:00 | how does my android fone on spark send and receive text messages, when I am neither on cell data nor wifi? Why cant my landline on UFB do this? Will it ever be able to? The aging boomers who will retire soon wont wont expensive monthly data plans just to text the rellies. I see "Fones for oldies" type ads that say landline fones can send text so it must be available overseas? I heard that the SMS system exploited a bit of unused bandwidth with the GSM protocol as the phone exchanged ID messages with the nearest cellsites. There was enough room to fit a short (144 byte?) message along with the other required data, and some genius figured out the rest. As for plans, I'm on the 2degrees Carryover Combo at $19 a month. It now includes 1.25Gb per month, plus 200mins talk time (NZ/Aus) & unlimited texts. I'm currently showing an accumulated 5.27Gb data & 2093 minutes of talk time... |
MushHead (10626) | ||
| 1450919 | 2018-06-25 01:15:00 | or $9 a month on Skinny , unlimited txt's , 100minutes call time , 250M data www.skinny.co.nz Im on the $16 skinny plan , I never use all the data or call time. Should probably go to the $9 plan, its only 2 cups of coffee difference though. |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1450920 | 2018-06-25 01:35:00 | or $9 a month on Skinny , unlimited txt's , 100minutes call time , 250M data . I looked into that. But. You get data. OK, not owning smartphones, we don't...except there are a couple of internet "shop" type links on our phones we can't remove. Husband had accidentally pushed the wrong button and not noticed it...so I had Spark disable the connectivity altogether. Skinny won't - or can't. So no. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1450921 | 2018-06-25 02:12:00 | If you look at your mobile plan you will see there are three different categories: Talk time in minutes SMS text messages - a certain number free Data SMS messaging has always been separate from data usage and as Gary67 mentioned the service pre dates mobile data I believe you can still opt to just pay per text whatever the cost is (20c ?) rather than have a plan with x number of free texts so if you send very few the cheapest option is probably a prepay and just make all the relatives call you. On the other hand a plan with a bunch of free minutes and texts can save a lot of money if you're on the phone a lot. |
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