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Texting Australia from UK

Dave4410 — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 20:56:28 GMT

Hi. I brought the 100 gb sim only pack from sim local about 3 days ago and want to be able to send texts - preferably with images - to Australia. Can someone tell me how to get whatever add on I need, please. Thanks

Re: Texting Australia from UK

Chris_B — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 21:15:14 GMT

@Dave4410 Are you trying to text an Australian number ? If you are you need credit on the account pay for that text. A mms ( picture message) is chargeable. Any text to a none UK number is chargeable and all MMS are chargeable.

Re: Texting Australia from UK

XRaySpeX — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 21:57:13 GMT

@Dave4410 : International Calling & Texting is not included in your allowances & MMS is not included at all.

There is a 250 UK to Rest of World (ROW) mins & SMS Add-On for £10.54 pm but I dunno how to get it, so you might need to call CS. See PAY MONTHLY INTERNATIONAL CALLING ADD-ONS

Also EE has a add-on, £2.16 pm on contract, that anyone can apply for to give these calls & texts at a fraction of the standard rates. See The CALL ABROAD Add-on for Cheap Calls/Texts from UK . For Oz it'll be 18p / text. As you are paying for these calls they will be itemised as out-of-allowance in your bill.

There's nowt for MMS.

Re: Texting Australia from UK

Dave4410 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 06:01:15 GMT

Thanks, but according to the SimLocal staff that sold me the sim and package, and according to the packaging I get, 60 international minutes, and unlimited calls and trxts in the UK. She also said there was a £5.00 add on for international texts - wnich I am trying to find.

Re: Texting Australia from UK

Dave4410 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 06:02:40 GMT

Thanks, but I think Ineed somesort of add on to send texts to Australia

Re: Texting Australia from UK

Leanne_T — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 12:29:13 GMT

Hi there @Dave4410

Thanks for coming to the community 🙂

Can you text BALANCE to 150 and let me know the full reply?

Leanne.

Re: Texting Australia from UK

XRaySpeX — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 12:51:51 GMT

Those are SIMLocal plans & add-ons. I'm not sure we'd be aware of them.

Re: Texting Australia from UK

Dave4410 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 08:28:16 GMT

I think I have been ripped off. I specifically wanted the ability to send text and images from UK back to Australia. Thanks for helping

Re: Texting Australia from UK

Dave4410 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 08:34:34 GMT

Your current balance as of today 08:33 is £0.00. You have unlimited minutes, unlimited texts, 52 minutes and 99.5GB remaining until 14/04/2025 for your SIM Local Pack. Your last top up was £20.00 on 23/09/2024 at 15:39. For more info on your packs, add-ons or free boosts, go to the EE app or ee.co.uk

For info on our other Text Services, reply HELP or go to ee.co.uk/textservices

Re: Texting Australia from UK

chistery — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 08:37:48 GMT

Using whatsapp, imessage, rcs, signal, telegram, etc. are usually better and cheaper ways to send pictures to others, if that's an option?

Re: Texting Australia from UK

Dave4410 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 09:09:18 GMT

Thanks but not an option yet.

Re: Texting Australia from UK

Matt_124 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 11:03:31 GMT

It could be worth getting in touch with SIMLocal then as they sold you the SIM and were the ones who advised about the existence of this £5 addon.

They should be able to tell you how to get this.

Re: Texting Australia from UK

Dave4410 — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 08:34:11 GMT

Thanks. Still waiting for a reply from them...