i have a tesco package--phone and sim for me--sim for wife. ive been paying £21 a month for 2 years. so my phone is now paid for. i think i pay too much for what i use typically--less than 30 mins of calls--out of 500 allowance ------------less than 100 texts out of 5000 ------------less than 100 mb out of 500 data. any suggestions for a cheap sim deal ..? i dont mind paygo--but would prefer to have one that doesnt need renewing every month.
I am on an O2 pay as you go sim, the money I put on it never expires, so if I buy £15 worth of credit I get extra data that will last a month and some kind of call allowance (but I really don't make calls) so during the month I could use the free allowance (I hardly ever make calls) but after the end of the month the credit will start to be eaten if I make calls or use data. So when the month is up I turn off the data and only turn it on as needed or I buy a data bolt on for a fiver for the next month that comes out of the 15 I spent the month before. Basically I have not spent anything on my phone for about 3 months my balance is 38 quid data is turned off just now but when I need it I will spend some of that 38 quid to get a 100 or 200MB, I mean that 38 quid was just about all the money I loaded on it in the last 15 months some of that money might be even older than that. For me the phone is just a small portable computer most of the time I am in some kind of WiFi zone and even in the local Supermarket (Morrisons) I get free Wifi.
do you know what your call and text charges are ? i mainly send texts--so low text costs are a must. when i first got a mobile--each text was 11p !! i only use data by accident--usually wi fi.
I have a monthly plan with BT for £5 ... paid by direct debit. Almost never anything extra added. I have the SIM in my dual SIM phone here in the Phils. Just used to receive calls and texts. When in the UK, I can avail of their (free) wifi hotspots. A lot of people (such as my son) seem to favour Giffgaff.
I'm with 3 mobile, £18 a month sim only plan unlimited data, unlimited text and 200 mins voice, the full works, roaming, wifi hotspot, 2000 minutes 3 to 3 calls. I moved home a few months ago, and luckily I'm living a few hundred yards from a 4g mast, and get 120mb down/50mb up, so didn't need broadband, although the property I'm in has FTTP, meaning I could get 330mb fibre internet, but at a cost of £50 a month. No thanks.
I have been on T-Mobile for donkey years and "3" for a little while, as I use a dual SIM phone, and a couple of weeks ago, I decided to drop the T-mobile SIM only contract and move the phone number over to "3" for convenience. I was paying 9 quid on T-Mobile for 500 minutes, half a gig of data and 600 texts, and the "3" was 18 quid for 30 gig of data and unlimited everything else... The new package I got with "3" is unlimited absolutely everything and own wi-fi hotspot for £21... The wi-fi hotspot will come in useful when I have no internet on the laptop when out and about working at some show or other. And especially traveling on a train, I do hate having to pay Richard Branson such ridiculous amounts for crappy reception. It is a monthly thing, that has no contract, really, 1 months notice and one may depart Happy days............
For £9, you get 600 minutes, unlimited text and 1 GB of data http://www.three.co.uk/Store/SIM/Plans_for_phones
I'm on the International SIM I think and it is an older one so the deal is pretty good, however the standard O2 Classic Pay and Go is 2p a text and 3p a minute for calls in the UK, with that version you don't get anything free is just uses up the £10 eventually but I am pretty sure your money does not expire at the end of the month. So for you that would be £2 for a hundred texts and 90p for 30 minutes of calls a month, so a tenner should last about just over 3 months. https://www.o2.co.uk/termsandconditions/mobile/classic-pay-as-you-go-terms-and-conditions
