Thank you all very much for your info and your suggestions, I will try phone cheap later on, hopefully I can connect and do the new year's countdown with my gf, I will also be trying Global Tel and Go Bananas...
Have you all heard of Lycamobile? Do you think it is the cheapest way to send text messages to Philippines, at 10p a message, it seems to be the cheapest...
Try searching for chikka - it's much cheaper (it's actually free.....)Originally Posted by mmmab
it must have saved me more than £1,000 over the years
Just interested, whether you did try phone cheap?
I haven't been able to get through, for a couple of days.
Finally got through, today at about 10pm Philippines time. She was cooking Pork Adobo & I could hear plenty of fireworks, going off in the background.
I couldn't get through using phone cheap, but I used another service called Briiing and I did manage to connect, we actually managed to do the countdown together which was really great and I could also hear all the fireworks going off in the backgroundJust interested, whether you did try phone cheap?
I haven't been able to get through, for a couple of days.
Finally got through, today at about 10pm Philippines time. She was cooking Pork Adobo & I could hear plenty of fireworks, going off in the background.
Happy New Year to all!!!
Using Skype, from a PC, is cheaper than that .. only 4 or 5 pence a message. I never got on well with Chika, which seemed to upset my PC.
I had Skype set up so that messages appeared to come from my Philippines phone ... this meant that replies only cost 1 peso.
i never really had a problem with chikka, used the different versions, on many pc's, found it an excellent program, i must have sent 1,000s of txts using it over many years.. for nothing, as far as i know the misses got most of the texts instantly, small number delayed..
as for replying, get ur misses to send u a international roaming simm for a spare mobile if u have one, so if she doesn't have a pc near by to use chikka, she can reply direct to that mobile for a few pesos.
Indeed, I bought a Smart SIM on my first visit to Phils ... and it's not 'a few pesos', it's one peso!
I have had the same problems with chikka, so I think I'm gonna go and try out skype, and it is cheaper that lycamobile, thanks for the tip PeterB
She has mentioned globe international roaming sim to me before and for Chritsmas she sent me a package but we forgot about the sims hehe
Would it be one peso as well if we use Globe sim, my honey is a Globe sim user, so just wondering if it would be the same...
Go to settings and change port # to 80
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