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Any EE add-ons offer discounted international SMS pricing?

Profile closed — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:18:09 GMT

Hello

I have the EE International Pass Add-On which brings down international calling prices, but it does not change the price of international SMS. EE charges 89p per text for international SMS to the USA. O2's equivalent plan changes 16p per text, albeit for £3 per month rather than £2. Are there any EE plans that offer half-sensible international SMS pricing? I've looked and not found it, but looking for a second opinion in case I've missed it.

I know the right answer is to get everyone else involved to use any one of a many apps (whatsapp, Google Chat, messenger, Telegram, Signal, ...), but there's a family event going down and all of the family overseas are on a different ecosystem. The hassle of getting all involved to install an additional app is fairly high. The RCS / iMessage mess is just painful.

Thanks in advance

Re: Any EE add-ons offer discounted international SMS pricing?

XRaySpeX — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:40:35 GMT

There is a 250 UK to Rest of World (ROW) mins & SMS Add-On for £10.54 pm, mentioned in EE pay monthly international calling add-ons T&Cs , but I dunno how to get it yourself. Ask CS for it.

Re: Any EE add-ons offer discounted international SMS pricing?

Profile closed — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:45:26 GMT

Superb, thanks @XRaySpeX . I found another doc referring to that, looks like it should be £10.54 per month and include 250 SMS messages. 🙏

https://ee.co.uk/content/dam/help/terms-and-conditions/price-plans/mobile/pay-monthly-price-plans/ee-pay-monthly-standard-and-non-standard-price-guide-4th-december-2024.pdf

Re: Any EE add-ons offer discounted international SMS pricing?

XRaySpeX — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:48:18 GMT

Yes, I found that reference not long after I 1st posted & edited accordingly.

Thanks! You're welcome 🙂 ! Glad I could be of assistance & trust it is now sorted.

Re: Any EE add-ons offer discounted international SMS pricing?

Profile closed — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 13:59:17 GMT

I spoke with agent today who said all the offerings have changed this year and there are no plans with discounted international SMS messages (like 250ROW). Sigh 🌧☔🌧

Re: Any EE add-ons offer discounted international SMS pricing?

XRaySpeX — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:28:47 GMT

It might be worth texting 250ROW to 150.

Re: Any EE add-ons offer discounted international SMS pricing?

Profile closed — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:09:33 GMT

Okay, I've just tried that and it has indeed added the 250ROW package to my plan...priced at £28 per month!

Magically, there is now also the 500Intl plan that I did not add.

Re: Any EE add-ons offer discounted international SMS pricing?

Profile closed — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:11:25 GMT

The app shows the ROW add on for £10.54. This is just going to be a mess.

Re: Any EE add-ons offer discounted international SMS pricing?

Profile closed — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:15:56 GMT

Ignore this, reading error 🙂

Re: Any EE add-ons offer discounted international SMS pricing?

bristolian — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:22:05 GMT

@Profile closed wrote:

Ignore this, reading error 🙂

FYI you do have the facility to edit posts for a short time after posting. Choose the drop-down arrow in the top-right of your post.

Re: Any EE add-ons offer discounted international SMS pricing?

Profile closed — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:22:52 GMT

On the telephone again, different agent - Yes, you want the 250ROW, that is the best plan for your usage.

We're golden. I'll have to call to remove it, but it should be fine here on.

Re: Any EE add-ons offer discounted international SMS pricing?

XRaySpeX — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:23:27 GMT

Those are not the 250 UK to Rest of World (ROW) mins & SMS Add-On. Those are International Calling add-on w/out any SMS, invoked by texting 250INTL2 or 500INTL1 as in EE Calling Abroad

Re: Any EE add-ons offer discounted international SMS pricing?

Profile closed — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:53:54 GMT

Thanks, I'll use that in future. I did try deleting the post as soon as I realized my mistake, but that gave a permission error.