The Localphone Blog

I’m pleased to announce that we’re halving our SMS rates to all destinations from now until the end of February.

Just as we have done with cheap international calling, we’re going to drive down the cost of sending SMS messages abroad while maintaining a reliable, high-quality service.

Here are some of our new half-price rates to popular destinations:

All International SMS Rates

Sending an SMS with Localphone couldn’t be easier. Simply log on to your Localphone dashboard to enter your messages and start sending.

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As of midnight this morning Eastern Time (5am GMT) all calls to United States landlines and mobiles will be completely free for five days, for all Localphone users new and old.

You can talk for as long as you want, to as many people as you want, any time you want, and we won’t charge you a penny.

Call from your landline or mobile with Direct Dial or Calling Card, or from your PC, iPhone, or other VoIP-enabled mobile with Localphone VoIP.

This offer even applies to our Incoming Numbers service. Buy a number in any of our 46 Incoming Number countries and forward calls to a landline or mobile in the US for free for five days.

We hope this offer will help you keep in touch with your loved ones this Thanksgiving.

This promotion will run until 10am GMT on Monday 30th November. For full details please see “Free Calls to the USA for Thanksgiving”.

Please note that this feature is currently only available on our UK Incoming Numbers, and only applies to SMS messages sent from a UK mobile network.

We have now enabled an exciting new feature on Localphone Incoming Numbers in the UK.

Available immediately, free of charge, when somebody sends an SMS text message to any of your UK Incoming Numbers it will be recorded in your SMS History.

You can also opt to have the SMS automatically forwarded to a number of your choosing—anywhere in the world—at our standard international SMS rates.

Just visit your Incoming Numbers Dashboard and click “Edit” next to your SMS-enabled number(s). On this page you’ll see a new “Forwarding Your SMS Messages” section where you can enable and disable this feature.

When you send SMS messages from the Localphone website you can choose your Incoming Number as the “Send From” field. When your friend in the UK replies, you can have it forwarded straight back to your mobile!

We hope you’ll enjoy this powerful new feature. We plan to start rolling it out to our Incoming Numbers in other countries soon.