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I have Magic Jack for calls but you can't text to CR. Any ideas? I have AT&T phone but they want .25 per int'l text or buy a package. I don't text enuf here or there to justify the $$ for their package, I usually just call but my amiga lives in a remote area up against the mountains and so even her 3g is hit or miss, annoying and time consuming and Magic jack still charges for the minute even if not connected. A text will eventually get there (I think)Thanks in advance

I have found several services that will allow you to send 1 or 2 texts for free. I also have used cardboardfish at a low rate to send texts. None of the services I have found have allowed your favorita to text to you. She can text thru Kolbi with an international plan, but it is very expensive for her.
I am very interested to see if you find a good, reliable, inexpensive, easy to use answer to your question as I too have several ticas (yes, I am using the term correctly) that do not have email that I'd like to keep on the hook.

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GG: She has my international Kolbi Sim phone with her, but from me in the Estados to her is the Q. Which two did you find?

Try
http://www.navegalo.com/signup then go to SMS
or
http://smsfree4all.com/free-sms-costa-rica.php
or search google for "free sms to costa rica" for others

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Thanks Giant, that SMS free CR site didn't work because it only offered two ICE prefixes, niether one being mi iamiga's 85. The Navegalo seemed to work though, I'll post when I can confirm.

Try www.ticosland.com you have to register an account, but I think it has several prefixes.



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If you and the person u are texting have a smartphone, download the application Whatsapp. U can text and sent pictures/videos for free.

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Doesn't that require 3g or wifi?

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If all you want to do is text once in awhile this might work, it is not cheap but you can set it up to have the texts sent right to your phone. http://www.ipipi.com/ check it out and post here if you have any more questions. One other choice is to go with a prepaid plan through Cricket 58 USD unlimited international text.

if you have an iphone like me you can get an app called text for free where they will give you another number for free and u can text away. when i text down to cr that is what i use cause i never signed any paper work or contract hope that helps

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yes but all smartphones (iPhone/Android) have 3G/wifi)

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That doesn't help, read his post again. She doesn't get 3g well so the internet solutions are not what he is looking for.

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yes - but the buy in is $9.99 per month and allows 100 international texts anywhere in the world when sent from the usa.

Yep, and I bought it yesterday, the first agent I talked to last week said I had to buy the full text package first for $30, and then tack on the $10 for Int'l. I called again yesterday and the agent said I could buy the $10 Int'l solo, so I did.

The Navagalo sight listed by the Giant above works, and so thanks for that, but I noticed sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, don't know if it's me or them, but ATT's $9.99 for 100 SMS of 160 characters was pretty good. Now if I could just use my keyboard and not the phone to compose, I'd really be happy.

Be careful when texting in Spanish, many of the characters with accents reduce the 160 max down to 70. A 150 character text with even one of these characters will result in a charge for 3 texts. I suggest turning on the character count setting as it will show you if it got reduced to 70.