Cheap Payg

[allenlondon]

What are the current cheapest Pay As You Go rates, no contract, no monthly fee, no internet, just calls and texts? It’s quite hard wading through all the guff!

Tks

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[Buenchico]

https://www.1pmobile.com/

[THECORBYLOON]

On average, how many minutes do you spend on the 'phone each month? How many texts do you send each month?

[Buenchico]

1pMobile, as per my link above, us the cheapest option if you only use your phone occasionally. (i.e. f the number of minutes you'll use on outgoing calls each month plus the number of texts you'll send in that time doesn't exceed a total of 500).

Otherwise Lebara, which gets you unlimited calls and texts for just £5 per month offers a better deal:
https://mobile.lebara.com/gb/en/msm/exclusive-monthly-plan-500/p/441137

[ladybirder]

I pay £6/month for sim only to GiffGaff (they use 02) which gets me unlimited minutes and texts, a small amount of data, no contract just pay monthly or don't if you want to stop.

[DTCwordfan]

I pay £14 a month with O2.....there's a message in this in that I went into contract with a new Galaxy.

After a year, I was flush and bought the phone out. 2 things resulted. I had been paying the finance plus 23 quid a month for the airtime - out of the finance, they dropped me to 14 quid for exactly the same airtime and data....so they had been ripping me off at £9 a month - before the finance package. Secondly, they tried charging me for insurance.....as I pointed out, the phone out of contract was covered by my home insurance. Their shop guy had a huge barney with head office in front of me, pointing out what they were intending/had been doing was illegal. He got me a credit back for 3 months worth of the so-called premium.

[DTCwordfan]

that's for any time and 5GB of data a month.

[allenlondon]

Not a clue, Corby. Never recorded it by minutes!

Not much. A few calls in and out a week, some texts. Not many.

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[Buenchico]

>>> Let's say, as an example, that you make 5 outgoing calls, each of 3 minutes duration each week and also send 5 texts during that time. That would cost you 20p per week with 1pMobile, so only adding up to around £1 per month.

[alavahalf]

Sounds expensive DTC ... you have the phone, all you need is a sim only contract ..

https://www.tescomobile.com/shop/sim-only-deals/sim-only-contracts

[Canary42]

I bought a cheap mobile from Argos, put the accompanying SIM card in, and now get all incoming calls. As I've not registered with the SIM card provider, I can't make outgoing calls, but I pay nothing. This suits me as I only wanted it for receiving second-level-security codes from banks etc. when working online, I'm not interested in making outgoing calls. How long this will last I've no idea, been OK for a couple of months so far.

[allenlondon]

Currently I’m on an O2 ‘classic payg’, 3p per min calls, 2p texts, no contract, as long as I lob in a certain sum (I think it’s £10 every 3 months), but there are rumours that O2 are dropping this cheapo deal, hence my question.

[KARL]

Curiosity question for Chris, if I may: Do you know if "data usage" at 1p is download + upload or just download ?

[KARL]

Sorry allen and Chris: The top up requirement on 1p is £10 every 3 months - so does this it not mean a condition of [call minutes + texts]

[barry1010]

Karl, 1p require you to top up at least £10 every 4 months
"Requirements
To keep your account and SIM active, just make at least one £10 top-up every 120 days."

£2.50 a month wasted if you only use the phone occasionally

[KARL]

Quite right Barry, every 120 days is 4 months not three :p

So one has 1000 minutes+texts available over 4 months - if not used the money presumably evaporates.

[barry1010]

No, Karl, it just mounts up
Credit rollover
Your credit lasts as long as your account is active, with no credit expiry period.

[ABerrant]

// Currently I’m on an O2 ‘classic payg’, 3p per min calls, 2p texts, no contract, as long as I lob in a certain sum (I think it’s £10 every 3 months) //

The 'no longer available to new customers' O2 Classic PAYG has no requirement for regular top-ups. The minimum top-up is £10 but the SIM will not expire provided you make a chargeable activity within a 6-month period, e.g. a 2p text every 6 months is enough to keep the account live.

[allenlondon]

Thanks ABerrant, that’s reassuring.

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[allenlondon]

Having said that, Aberrant, Ilooked into it a bit further, and it seem O2 have no commitment to users like me. And why should they? It’s monthly contracts they want, not oiks like me who sometimes spend a quid, sometimes £20.

I’ll hang in there for the time, all fingers crossed.

Bx