Virgin offers unlimited action for a fiver Sorry folks, but this story is about Virgin Media, which is now offering a Sim-only deal with unlimited texts, unlimited Virgin-to-Virgin calls and 100 minutes of calls to other networks for just £5 a month. At that price, though, the 30-day rolling contract is only open to existing Virgin customers, ie. anyone who already …
While I'll agree that some 100 texts per day is a bit of work, saying "unlimited" but really meaning "3000 a month" is not entirely spot on with the truth. Same with having any cap at all on "unlimited" data means it's not quite unlimited after all. Even if it's "average based", "fair use" or some other excuse for not in fact stating just what the cap is. And needless to say, there do exist people who manage more than 3000 texts a month. It's only ten an hour for ten hours a day, after all.
One text every six minutes. For ten hours nonstop. Every day of the month.
Or, one every three minutes, for five hours a day, every day.
I suppose it's possible tO do that many and more, if you really like to send texts.
If you send a text to more than 1 person or > 160 characters, does it count as two and more texts... hmm.
I myself average maybe half an sms a month, but if I count IRC and comments on various sites, I might easily run over the 3000 sentences and/or 160*3000 characters again. But anyway.
A little googling suggests numbers from "over half of teens text more than 50 messages a day and one in three manage over 100 a day" to "the average teen sends 3339 messages per month". I'm presuming that this average teen doesn't quite try to fill those 160 characters with prose --as I tend to, cheapskate without an all-you-can-text plan that I am--, but rather sends but a few words per message.
On an unrelated note I recall a silly video pitting two texting teenagers vs. two old hand CW operators. The hams won, of course. So, where's the CW-to-SMS app? and a suitable iKey for your iGadget?
But brightemo is correct - I have been with giffgaff for 3 months now and a £10 "goody bag" every month is all I need. I was with Orange before and managed to get through £30 of credit in a month. Before that it was Voda but they were also way more expensive. I live out in the sticks and reception is not bad - its not great but it equals voda which is the only other alternative out here.
I dont usually endorse anything as I usually manage to find something about any company that I dont like but I have to admit giffgaff deliver the cheapest and in my opinion best service I have had from any operator (they dont have a service centre - you have to post a question on their forum to get any support but it seems to work well - although I have only needed to ask one question so far).
Interesting to see the posts being down voted. They weren't posts with controvesial comments, they were simply pointing out a statement of fact - I'm guessing a VirginMedia monkey has been reading the forum, a point proven by the down vote on this comment :)
I've seen BBC Horizon, I know about Maths:
Finite numbers and Infinity do not live in the same mathematical space
3000 texts and Unlimited texts do not live in the same legal space
Im guessing the 3000 SMS per month limit is to stop the sim card being used in an email to SMS gateway server or similar such device where it could be flooding their network with 1000 of texts per month. But yes they shouldn't call it unlimited if there is a limit. I'm on 3 with their £10 per month contract and i get 3000 text per month which i get no where near the limit and also 3 didnt try and sell it as unlimited texts, they even do a 5000 text per month for £25 quid per month so that would be some serious texting.
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