Quote Originally Posted by JimOttley View Post
If you have a laptop you can buy a Smart Plug n Talk device which will give you 1 peso txt in both directions, the major inconvenience being that you have to have your laptop open all the time.
The way my wife does it is she normally leaves the sim in a spare mobile and uses chikka to send messages. She only used the smart device when the sim no longer roams (due to lack of credit), she wants to send load, or she has hit her limit on chikka.