Do You Remember

[roadman]

When a text message cost you 10p

What is something you remember that the kids today wouldnt believe

[goodgoalie]

What does it cost now? Don't have a mobile phone!

[roadman]

most text messages are now free if you pay a monthly fee of £10 these are known as sim only contracts or you have a contract that you pay monthly that will include unlimited text messages

[royfromaus]

8 zillion texts for 3 quid

[royfromaus]

For many a jam sandwich was a special treat.

[mallyh]

i do 1penny mobile ...1p text ,1p a minute calls .i have a little klah phone (very basic)

[bhg481]

When we got our first mobile phone calls cost 50p/minute.

[royfromaus]

First up...best dressed.



Mind you, having to go to school in my sisters dress made me the man I am.

[diddlydo]

I still pay 10p for a text on my PAYG mobile phone!

[bookbinder]

Petrol at 3/6 a gallon (in 1968)

[calmck]

Not having a mobile phone

[Arksided]

I switched to Smarty a few months ago... Free calls and text, 30G of data for £10 a month.

Show kids of today a Sony walkman, they wouldn't have a clue what a cassette is.

[ichkeria]

Ah yes the myth of "free" text messages.

The thing that most impresses my offspring is when I explain about how one used to connect to the internet with a dial-up modem which left your phone line engaged ("What's a phone line?")

[ichkeria]

You know you're being ripped off by big phone companies when even the Vodafone salesman tells you he's with x and paying a fraction of what he sells :-)

[Arksided]

I was on PAYG Vodafone for years I had no problems with them. I then got trapped by O2 for a couple of years they're the biggest rip-off merchants in my eyes.

[burlyshirley]

Agree about O2 !

[theprof]

On a similar vein, in the eighties I had a Vodafone pager that I used to carry everywhere. The person that wanted to get hold of me had to phone a call-centre and dictate a message to the agent which appeared on my pager screen a few minutes later as a rolling message.
MrsProf used to love taking the mikey by telling the agent things like "pick me up some sanitary towels on the way home" and suchlike. On more than one occasion, the agent could be heard giggling! Oh the fun we had.

[ichkeria]

You need to be really careful with non-SIM contracts. You can end up paying for the handset for longer than you should.

[zebo]

//Petrol at 3/6 a gallon (in 1968)//
Oh I recall bursting into tears the first time we didn't get three gallons for a pound, we'd never be able to afford to go anywhere again!
My grandchildren couldn't get their heads around the idea that their mother had one phone in the house, on a piece of wire and you sat on the stairs for privacy.
When I said that we didn't have a phone when I was growing up they didn't believe me, how did I stay in touch with friends, make social arrangements? I tried to explain that the big red structure in next door's garden wasn't always a mini-greenhouse.

[youngmafbog]

Text messages are not free they are included. In other words the companies average out the texts and factor in a price.

I remember the phones without text facility. Bought my first one Fem 1990. It was £300 for the phone, £25 a month for Cellnet with 33 per minute within the M25 and 25 a minute outside. If you were lucky the battery lasted 4 hours which meant carrying around a spare. Talk time on a full battery was 15-20 mins and the phone got ruddy hot.

Not all Sim are inclusive. I have an ASDA one for my Alarm. That is 4p a text.

[youngmafbog]

Oh yes pagers. I used to be on call in the 80's so a pager was the only way. Phone into the Ops then make your way in if the Ops guy couldn't get it going. Oftgen done on a public phone box if you were out. I remember the thing going off when I was in a boat in the English Channel. Race back in to find a phone!