Cheapest Mobile Plan with Free *Multi-Message* Text & Calls?

LGregMonarch on 04/12/2016 - 06:47
Last edited 04/12/2016 - 06:48

Anyone know who has the cheapest mobile plan, that has free MULTI-MESSAGE texts and free calls? (Where you type an SMS much larger than a single SMS would normally be.)

I don't need any data & already own a phone.

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  • Them3lguy on 04/12/2016 - 09:13

    Mate, Check out Yomojo

  • retiredfeline on 04/12/2016 - 09:34

    If you just want long texts, if you enter more than 160 characters, what happens depends on your phone and perhaps carrier. SMS as is can send a long message as multiple segments, 6 to 8 according to Wiki. However I noticed that some phones or carriers transform this to a MMS. Which annoyed me no end when a friend wrote long SMSes to me, they got transformed to a MMS which I could not easily read, if at all.

  • GregMonarch on 04/12/2016 - 09:42

    1. Thanks for the suggestions…

    2. I have a HTC M9 phone. Not sure what the other person has, but we both just type and send. We were on Virgin. How do you find that info - the type of message the phone is sending!? Or more to the point… does it make any difference to what you pay?

    • retiredfeline on 04/12/2016 - 09:57

      If SMS is free then multiple segments will be free. Some carriers require the recipient to use data to download MMS, Vodafone once required web login to retrieve the MMS, they may not do that anymore now that must people have data.

      I never did find out whether my friend's phone or carrier changed the SMSes to a MMS. You might have to try a long text to see what happens.

  • GregMonarch on 04/12/2016 - 09:56

    Ugh, what a dreadful site yomojo has, lol.

  • retiredfeline on 04/12/2016 - 14:13

    Thinking back to my friend it's possible that he being the chatty type, exceeded the 6 or 8 segment limit and the phone switched to MMS. He was in fact treating SMS like email. It also annoyed me because SMS wasn't free for me. Anyway we've gone to email now.

    Another cause mentioned in forums was people inserting emojis back in the days when they were small images and not Unicode characters.

  • GregMonarch on 04/12/2016 - 15:23

    I did a test, and if I type a long SMS but don't send it - like when you go back to the home screen on your phone to do something else - it displays a small message "Converting to MMS message". Whether it sends as an MMS later, when you go back to the draft and send it - I don't know. Seems strange to me… I mean, I always thought MMS was for pictures.

    • retiredfeline on 04/12/2016 - 15:30

      That was the idea but since it can handle larger messages, it can be used for texts that exceed the limit.

  • [Deactivated] on 05/12/2016 - 00:11

    SMS? Why not use whatsapp or something like that?

    It's almost 2017 for gods sake!

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