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Northern Ireland

Anonymous — Sun, 19 Jul 2015 17:43:18 GMT

My friend has gone to Northern Ireland for 2 weeks, we have been text messaging but it does it cost me to text him?

Re: Northern Ireland

Anonymous — Sun, 19 Jul 2015 17:49:33 GMT

No more than it would cost normally, depending on your tariff and any allowances you may have. For example if you have a free texts allowance it would continue to come off that as normal. NI is part of the UK

Re: Northern Ireland

jonsie — Sun, 19 Jul 2015 17:48:23 GMT

No not at all. If you are texting a uk number it will never cost you wherever the other person is in the world.

Northern Ireland anyway is part of the uk.

Re: Northern Ireland

Anonymous — Sun, 19 Jul 2015 17:57:39 GMT

Okay thank you both of you! 😊

Re: Northern Ireland

jonsie — Sun, 19 Jul 2015 18:20:07 GMT

Happy to help

Re: Northern Ireland

Anonymous — Sun, 19 Jul 2015 18:37:51 GMT

Would it cost me if he was in Southern Ireland??

Re: Northern Ireland

jonsie — Sun, 19 Jul 2015 18:43:29 GMT

The same....nothing:smileyhappy:

It doesn't matter if he's anywhere in the world. Any text to a UK number is free from your text allowance. It also costs nothing for him to receive.

Re: Northern Ireland

Anonymous — Sun, 19 Jul 2015 18:53:30 GMT

Oh right okay, thanks again 😊

Re: Northern Ireland

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 12:49:04 GMT

Re: Northern Ireland

Fellwalker — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 21:20:51 GMT

He may well be back now, but for the future and for others:

He just needs to be aware if he goes near the border with the south, their signal is often stronger than the UK one. I have been walking along the coast at Portstewart or Portrush, and found myself getting a "Welcome to O2 Eire" message reaching across from Donegal! That then means you are abroad, so everything costs more, and calls/texts to the UK do not come within your allowance. If you want to avoid that you have to change your preferred network from Automatic to O2-UK. Should be in Settings/Mobile Networks/ Network Operators (it is on Android). But if you go abroad on purpose, you need to change it back.

Re: Northern Ireland

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 15:18:23 GMT

@Fellwalker wrote:

".... found myself getting a "Welcome to O2 Eire" message reaching across from Donegal! That then means you are abroad, so everything costs more, and calls/texts to the UK do not come within your allowance...."

But @jonsie said in message dated 19 July at 19:43 - ".....It doesn't matter if he's anywhere in the world. Any text to a UK number is free from your text allowance. It also costs nothing for him to receive."

I may be reading this all wrong, but there appears to be conflict of opinion here. Are texts sent to UK numbers via O2 Eire free (within the tariff allowance) to O2 UK customers who inadvertently roam into the O2 Eire network albeit they remain geographically within the UK? If outside the allowance are they charged at the same, higher or lower cost (I accept this may be difficult to answer precisely given that Eire is in the Euro zone).

Re: Northern Ireland

jonsie — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 15:49:03 GMT

A text message sent to any UK mobile number whether it is in Afghanistan, Timbucktoo, Eire , or anywhere else in the world, from the UK will come from your allowance. Conversely, wherever you are in the civilised world it will be free to receive the text.

Sending texts from anywhere other than the UK will incur charges.

No conflict only fact.

Re: Northern Ireland

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 15:59:42 GMT

@jonsie wrote:
A text message sent to any UK mobile number whether it is in Afghanistan, Timbucktoo, Eire , or anywhere else in the world, from the UK will come from your allowance. Conversely, wherever you are in the civilised world it will be free to receive the text.
Sending texts from anywhere other than the UK will incur charges.
No conflict only fact.

Thanks for the clarification @jonsie Think the Cider has been fuzzing my already dim wits!

Re: Northern Ireland

jonsie — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 16:06:16 GMT

Fuelled on Fosters at the moment @Anonymous

Re: Northern Ireland

Fellwalker — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 07:26:31 GMT

That's exactly what I meant, hence prefacing my comment "He just needs to be aware... "

I was electronically in Eire so got charged for sending texts and making calls, not for receiving them.
Sorry for any confusion.

Re: Northern Ireland

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 10:43:11 GMT

@Fellwalker wrote:
That's exactly what I meant, hence prefacing my comment "He just needs to be aware... "

I was electronically in Eire so got charged for sending texts and making calls, not for receiving them.
Sorry for any confusion.

No need for any apology @Fellwalker - I am easily confused and am especially expert at confusing myself!!