My rant on Mobile websites in Spain and Orange

petkow · 23-09-2007, 10:21

TPH is 'The Phone House'.... i.e. the chain of shops.

True... international SMS rates from Spain are just way too high. I am on Carrefour and get charged 69c as well!! Rip off! I tend to use my 02 UK contract instead where I get some free messages even when I am in Spain. For the other networks, some of the rates are listed in: http://www.prepaidgsm.net/en/spain.html I think Vodafone is 34c which is still too high!

SMSbug.com is a small Java client that you can download and run from your phone. (Phone needs to be Java compatible... most are... but check!) I think with practically any GPRS data tarrif SMSbug will still work out cheaper for sending your international SMS. (They only charge €0.03 to most places plus you pay for the data useage). Data useage on Yoigo is especially good value, but only if you expect to use it a lot in a day!

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petkow (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Pioneer Posts: 696 Join Date: 01 Aug 2006 Location: Madrid Country:	23-09-2007, 10:21 TPH is 'The Phone House'.... i.e. the chain of shops. True... international SMS rates from Spain are just way too high. I am on Carrefour and get charged 69c as well!! Rip off! I tend to use my 02 UK contract instead where I get some free messages even when I am in Spain. For the other networks, some of the rates are listed in: http://www.prepaidgsm.net/en/spain.html I think Vodafone is 34c which is still too high! SMSbug.com is a small Java client that you can download and run from your phone. (Phone needs to be Java compatible... most are... but check!) I think with practically any GPRS data tarrif SMSbug will still work out cheaper for sending your international SMS. (They only charge €0.03 to most places plus you pay for the data useage). Data useage on Yoigo is especially good value, but only if you expect to use it a lot in a day! Last edited by petkow; 23-09-2007 at 16:31.. Reason: typo