Northern Ireland

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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

[jonsie]

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.

[Anonymous]

Okay thank you both of you! 😊

[jonsie]

Happy to help

[Anonymous]

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

[jonsie]

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.

[Anonymous]

Oh right okay, thanks again 😊

[Anonymous]

[Fellwalker]

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.