Whom should I SMS?

There are a few bonuses when you recharge your Three Prepaid Mobile (in my case, a Three Skypephone). You get 150 minutes of free calls to other Three users, and 100 free SMS to any mobile network.

Well. That’s all good. Except when there is some glitches. After I recharged my mobile yesterday I saw this under “My 3″:

Bonus SMS from Three

Bonus SMS from Three #2

Yes. You read it right — 239199 FREE SMS to any network! Actually it is now 239,198 as I have just sent a testing SMS to Vivian, but the question still remains — how am I supposed to use that many SMS before mid-February!

What’s missing under my 3′s remaining bonuses is my Skype minutes, which should be 4,000 minutes per recharge. I still have no problem making and receiving Skype calls though.

Category: Life | Mon, 17 December 2007 8:12 pm

Tags: skype, sms, three

Comments

Posted by aq on Tue, 18 December 2007 4:09 pm

239199 – 23198 = 216001. Wow that’s a lot of SMSes to Vivian!

Posted by scotty on Tue, 18 December 2007 4:28 pm

Good pick up… Now I get 216,000 more SMS in my account now :)

Posted by Jayne on Fri, 21 December 2007 7:20 pm

Just send loads of Xmas and New Year SMS’s.

Posted by Ian on Tue, 25 December 2007 1:27 pm

You’d better get texting then. Gotta use those freebies!

Posted by Avel on Wed, 26 December 2007 6:50 pm

Hi Scott,

Good day mate. Just browsing the net and searching for the Dell D600 Left Hinge and found your site. I have my Latittude D600 and has a broken hinge and I was looking at ebay and could not find one. I was wondering if you still have spare and want to share and sell. Just incase here is my email address kulitz@gmail.com. Merry Christmas to you and your family and Advance Happy New Year. Many thanks. Avel

Posted by Leo on Fri, 4 January 2008 11:21 am

are they free to all or free to Skype?

Posted by scotty on Fri, 4 January 2008 11:32 am

@leo — SMS is free to all national network in Australia.