Free sms blog

As you can see, there are not only disadvantages of the bureaucracy at EU level. The international roaming fees were reduced with the assistance and pressure from EU Commission significantly, so that it now no longer so critical, if someone is calling while you are abroad or when you call from the European countries to your home country. Some people still remember the days when SMS was free. The mobile operator realized pretty quickly that the text messages are a good source of income and made this charge. The price for a message in comparison with the costs for the transmission of this message is to high. If you still travel abroad, then it is would be significantly more expensive. This will be apparently changed very soon, because the EU commission urged the operators to make prices lower. If they fail to do so, the EU commission would decide about the prices of text messages by itself. They did it once, as some operators ignored the order to make roaming fees lower.
This is a great development. I travel quite often within Europe and therefore I would benefit particularly on this regulation. The only question is when my providers follow this order.

Some reader of my blog told me today about a new website where it is possible to send short messages relatively simply and for free. As usual, I was looking for the terms in order to find a danger that the service is not free or the data will be sold to third parties. I found nothing that could confirm my fears. The owner of the site promises that the data will not be sold to third parties. However, you should know that the owner saves all the information, including IP address, telephone number and text message to prevent abuse.
The dispatch of a message works, albeit not exactly intuitive. There are two fields that need to be filled. They are called “recipient” and “Message”. After clicking on the button “send message” you will see a banner in pop-up window. Here you have to keep a little caution, because the advertising looks like input mask for sending of text messages and you might think that the procedure with the input should be repeated. This is not the case. The click on the banner leads to a page where you can send text messages for money. It would be better if you simply close the window with this advertisement. Now you need to confirm your wish to send a message by clicking on confirmation button. After that you will see a form where you should enter a number that should be calculated. For example if you see “14-7″ you should enter the 7 in the answer form. After you confirm the result of calculation you will finally get a button called “Send FreeSMS now”. After the pressing of it the text message will be finally sent. I admit that it looks a bit complicated in practice it works pretty fast.

I sent 2 text messages. Both messages were immediately delivered. Therefore, I believe that this site should be mentioned here.
Of course I can’t give any guarantee that this service will work as I described here, because I’m not an owner of it.

http://metacrawler.de/sms/ is really a great site where you can send SMS for free. Immediately after the loading of the page in your browser you get a form for a telephone number and a message. After filling up, you must still accept the terms and conditions and then you can send the SMS.
Of course you must read the terms before accepting them, at least theoretically, but I read only half of it.
The main information is that the site saves some information about you, such as IP address, because they would use it to prevent a abuse. The limit, according to the terms is 3 SMS per day and user, but only one SMS per hour. In order to prevent spam, the recipient will receive only 2 messages per day independent of whether the sender is the same, or there are different people. This is understandable, because they are not able to control the users. On the Internet you can very easily fake IP address. Normally, it is enough for this, only disconnect from Internet for a moment and then connect to the Internet again. Unfortunately you can send SMS only in Germany. Normally I do not need to send a text message abroad, but occasionally it happens and the text messages costs on my mobile service provider significantly more than those within Germany.
If you receive the unwanted sms from this website, you can block the sending of short messages to your number, you need to send an e-mail to those mentioned in the terms of use e-mail address and tell your number.
In addition, it pointed out that it also may be delayed, which is not normally happen. I sent two SMS for test today, both came immediately. I am pleased with the service actually and would like to to use it, if I will have a problem with Zelfi SMS or GMX.

Zelfi finally offers since some time announced java-program for cell phones that makes possible to send “free” sms on the way.
Sms are advertising financed. The advertising insertion takes place shortly before sending the message.
The shipment of the message of “Free SMS” is free, but the costs of GPRS-transfer could incur, it depends on your mobile provider and rate.
The GPRS-transfer costs are very different. It seems that with my prepaid-card (1 Kilobyte costs me 1 cent) the price of one message is around 2.5 cents.
You should also be careful and inform yourself about the rates of your mobile provider, because it could be much expensive as the price of my provider. Some mobile providers offer also Data-Packs, this Data-Packs could lower your GPRS-costs.
The “winners” of these services are people, who have UMTS- or GPRS-Flatrate, because they can use “Free SMS” from Zelfi really for free.

I have just found a new service for sending of free sms. You don’t need to have an account to send sms with 1sms4free, that’s why it could be useful for people, who needs sometimes to send a few sms, but has not time and wish to register any accounts. It’s seems that those sms are advertising financed.
The downside of this service is the time limitation of free sms for all users. There is a quantity of free sms that all users can use in x hours and if the limit is reached, you must wait for a new part of free sms. But you have also big advantage, you don’t need to create any accounts and tell your mobile phone number or email.

You can find a one of good services for free sms at www.openpost.de. OpenPost offers 10 sms with 137 characters (other 23 characters will be used for the link to openpost.de) monthly for free.
To be able to send free sms you must be registered at Openpost.de. The registration is very simple and fast.

P.S. I would like to say thanks to Steven for this tip.

There are hundreds of offers in Internet that promise you free sms. I think, GMX is one of those services that you could really use for that.

If you want to send free sms, you must register an “GMX Free Mail Plus” account and give your bank account information. It is necessary for the cases if you send more than 10 sms monthly and GMX are able than to receive a money for those sms via debit.
In addition, you must be aggrieving to receive a newsletter with commercial offers from partners of GMX.
I’m using GMX-services more than one year and I haven’t yet any problems.
But if you want to communicate via sms on the way, you can try “Free SMS” from Zelfi.

Yesterday I searched for a new cradle for my pocket pc (Asus A636N) and I found that Alternate, where I wanted to by the cradle, offers free sms for their customers. The customers of Alternate are able to send 10 messages monthly for free. There are “only” 140 characters and not full 160 as at “Free SMS” from Zelfi or GMX and you are not able to setup your own cell phone number as sender-number, but it works fine.

All fans of online-catalogue can be happy about the new possibility to send 5 free sms monthly if they register for Otto.de sms info-service. You can read about the terms and conditions at www.otto.de.