itey: I was just in canada, and one of the cell providers, fido, had the following plan for texting which I thought was really good:

basically, you would pay 20c per text, but once you had spent $1 for the day, you wouldn't be charged any more. So once you had sent 5 texts you would get 'unlimited' for the rest of the day.

OK sure we don't need anything quite that good here (afterall you still have to pay the termination charges), but maybe have something similar.

I liked the above plan because somedays I wouldn't text at all, and hence wasn't being charged a thing, but other days I would text like mad.

itey: its good for someone like myself who goes 3-4 days a time without texting much, then come fri/sat night send out a lot.

Handsomedan: The whole rort of termination rates needs to be sorted out sooner rather than later: The idea that you should know what network you are calling in the days of number portability is frankly ridiculous.
There's no way we can be expected to know if an 027, 021, 029 or 022 number is on one network or another.

Tohe:

Handsomedan: The whole rort of termination rates needs to be sorted out sooner rather than later: The idea that you should know what network you are calling in the days of number portability is frankly ridiculous.
There's no way we can be expected to know if an 027, 021, 029 or 022 number is on one network or another.

Isn't there a freetxt number you can txt a phone number to to acertain thier network?

I think that's pretty cool... Aussie has more providers and nothing like this so you basically have to ask the person and try and remember thier provider... at least us Kiwi's have some brains :)