We at Webson enjoy freebies,just as much as everyone else and have frequently come accross office to send free sms’s.The big question we decided to answer was is free really free?

Is there any really free,no strings attached,sms services available?

The short answer to this question is an unreserved…no.There is however quite a few services that will lower the cost of sms’s,there is also afew services that will allow you to send free sms’s,subject to certain conditions and there is a number of services giving you limited sms’s depending on your account status at certain providers.

Our hoax list:

We have found only one hoax site offering free sms’s but actually charging you an excessive amount for that.The site is www.freebiesms.co.za.The sender can send the sms for free but the receiver must pay R30 to retrieve it.In Webson’s eyes this is criminal and for that reason I will not link to that site,but if you need to pay R30 urgently you can go google the service.

My sms is still floating somewhere:

There was quite a few services offering free sms’s,but when we tested the services,no sms’s were received,we will promptly update our site if they are received before Dec 2009.If you feel lucky and want to give it a try go to www.text4free.net and za.simplesms.co.za.

Free sms’s for members

There are tow sites that allow free sms’s for members of these blueworld.co.zawhich is a facebook clone,seems to be the best,all though they monitore use of sms’s very close and cannot access it frequently without becoming part of the community.If facebook is your thing go ahead.

mydigitallife.co.za allows members to sms other members,which in my mind is limiting.The service is still on trial basis and we will never know when the trial will end.

Free sms offer by cellphone providers:

All the cellphone providers offer a number of free sms’s vodacom4me.co.za offer 20 free sms’s a day,amounting to roughly 600 a month and virginmobile.co.za offer 1000 free sms’s a month.

The best deal:

In my eye the nearest to free sms’s are offered by mjoy.com,which allow free sms’s from anybody worldwide to anybody worldwide making use of WAP.The cost of sending an sms will be a fraction of a real sms and in testing the service we have found no flaws.We feel that all though not free it is the best opyion to send free sms’s without becoming a subsriber or having funny strings attached.