Originally Posted by Mr K (Post 36086461)

Didn't they try this before and had to backtrack after an outcry?

Can recommend ASDAs payg, cheap bundles and cheap out of bundle prices.

Originally Posted by pip08456 (Post 36086453)

Why not just transfer them to O2's PAYG?

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.ph...-packages.html

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 36086470)

When they tried to put up my mobile phone package by £7 a month I enquired about PAYG and was told (in writing) that Virgin no longer did PAYG! Another lie from these cowboys; was glad to see the back of them.

Originally Posted by Mr K (Post 36086461)

Didn't they try this before and had to backtrack after an outcry?

Can recommend ASDAs payg, cheap bundles and cheap out of bundle prices.

Originally Posted by joglynne (Post 36086474)

I would be hard pressed using up the £10 credit I started with in a year. :sulk:

Originally Posted by Taf (Post 36086476)

I have over £5 left of a £10 credit from 2018....

Originally Posted by joglynne (Post 36086478)

Good gracious me, you have really been pushing the boat out with that high usage. :D

In the last 18 months I have used 19p on my 3 payg. :D

Being able to phone mobiles using my landline and have long phone calls every morning to some vulnerable friends using my VM package, which includes a lovely discount covering free phone calls, has been a boon.

.... Such a nice young man at VM, he said that I was the first customer that day who was nice and made him laugh.

Originally Posted by cheekyangus (Post 36086480)

Can you confirm that they moved all 321 customers to the new PAYG tariff rates?

Originally Posted by joglynne (Post 36086474)

I am looking for a new rollover PAYG, am currently with 3 and their charges on PAYG have gone silly. Saw your post so have looked at Asda payg. It looks good, well it did before I checked on Trust Pilot so I'm back to looking at 1p mobile which looks good but at the moment with not using my phone much and it requiring a 3 monthly top up it isn't fitting my needs as, at the moment, I would be hard pressed using up the £10 credit I started with in a year. :sulk:

Originally Posted by gba93 (Post 36086499)

Have a look at Smarty for a good deal!


https://smarty.co.uk/?gclsrc=aw.ds&g...E&gclsrc=aw.ds


I've saved a fortune.

Originally Posted by cheekyangus (Post 36086503)

I only found out today that it's Three's version of Voxi and GiffGaff.

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 36086466)

Credit never expires and there isn't a requirement to make any minimum calls etc.

Originally Posted by spiderplant (Post 36086528)

But there is this requirement:
"To keep your account and SIM active, just make at least one £10 top-up every 120 days"

Originally Posted by Paul (Post 36086536)

Their data is also incredibly expensive, £10.24 per GB.

Originally Posted by spiderplant (Post 36086539)

Depends how much data you need. I have one of these in my car so it can fetch traffic info. Costs me absolutely nothing. They don't even spam me to try to get me to upgrade.

Originally Posted by Paul (Post 36086536)

Their data is also incredibly expensive, £10.24 per GB.

You can buy 'boosts' for 30 days (and loose what you dont use).
By the time you have done all this, you may as well just have a monthly SIM anyway.

For example, Lebara do one for £3.95 a month.
https://www.uswitch.com/mobiles/compare/sim_only_deals/

Originally Posted by spiderplant (Post 36086539)

Depends how much data you need. I have one of these in my car so it can fetch traffic info. Costs me absolutely nothing. They don't even spam me to try to get me to upgrade.

Originally Posted by spiderplant (Post 36086539)

Depends how much data you need. I have one of these in my car so it can fetch traffic info. Costs me absolutely nothing. They don't even spam me to try to get me to upgrade.

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 36086602)

Do they warn you when you're about to use up your free allowance? If they don't, perhaps this is how they earn their money.

Originally Posted by spiderplant (Post 36086654)

IIRC they send a text when you are about to run out, then another when you actually do (I've only run out once). They don't charge you when you hit the limit and they couldn't anyway - they don't have any payment details. The SIM simply stops working until the next month.

You can even have up to 5 SIMs so you can get 1GB a month if you can be bothered to swap SIMs.

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 36086678)

Thanks, I think i'll get one or five then :D I Don't know what the company gets out of it though!? People could potentially get by with these and nothing else if all their contacts were on Whatsapp, FB Messenger etc

Originally Posted by spiderplant (Post 36086746)

My car has a built-in modem. You just have to supply the SIM. As well as the traffic info, you can use it for stuff like internet radio, or even tether other devices to it.

Originally Posted by cheekyangus (Post 36086748)

Neat. I assume there's some place in the interior to put it that's easily accessible rather than something awkward?

Originally Posted by joglynne (Post 36086481)

Yes everyone was moved onto the new payg rates from February this year. I think we got about a months notice.

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 36086602)

How much data do you get for £3.95 a month as it doesn't seem to say? That looks to be a very good deal as the cheapest that I could find (also with Lebara) worked out at £4.38 a month for 3GB for the first year (£5 per month, with the first 3 months at half price on a one month rolling contract).

Depending on how much data you get it looks like it would be better to use my deal for 3 months then your deal thereafter.

For the moment, 1p Mobile suits me though as this costs £2.50 a month and covers what I need. If my phone/data use increased I would certainly reevaluate the situation.

I did take into account that their data is expensive when used on the odd occasion, but this would be paid for out of credit that would just be sat there doing nothing.

If you take this into account and factor in that any data used is in effect subsidising the cost of the very cheap calls/texts, I still find it to be good value.

It all depends on how much you use your phone and whether this is for data/texts/calls as to which is better for each individual user.

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Oh, this looks to be a brilliant product.

If I get one of these could I put it into my dual SIM phone and only start to use up my 1p Mobile credit when I've exhausted my free monthly data allowance?

Do they warn you when you're about to use up your free allowance? If they don't, perhaps this is how they earn their money.

Originally Posted by spiderplant (Post 36086539)

Depends how much data you need. I have one of these in my car so it can fetch traffic info. Costs me absolutely nothing. They don't even spam me to try to get me to upgrade.

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 36087006)

This will be really useful for when my BB or 1p Mobile ever goes down and is enough for now, but how do you obtain up to 4 more (for if/when I can leave the house). I didn't see an option for more than one.

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 36087006)

I feel a lot less vulnerable to outages where I may need to ring 999 now- thank you SP.

Originally Posted by spiderplant (Post 36087016)

I've just ordered another one as a test

Originally Posted by cheekyangus (Post 36086467)

Yeah. Though how much can be attributed to the backlash, and how much was because news accidentally came out during the the early Covid days where people needed to stay connected and it would've looked even worse, who knows?

Previous thread -> https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...php?t=33709154

There was also that it looked like they were only giving a month's notice to act, which was ridiculous.

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Exactly. Though O2 arm probably want rid of PayG too, so would want to encourage them to other product types.

Originally Posted by pip08456 (Post 36087340)

This comment lasted well!;)

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.ph...e-tariffs.html

Originally Posted by spiderplant (Post 36087016)

Have you activated your new SIM? I found this was a bit of a pain because you can only do it while connected to their network but I had no signal at home.


I'm pretty sure I saw in the small print somewhere that you can have up to 5. I can't find it now, but it might have been in the paperwork that came with the SIM - can you check? I've just ordered another one as a test. What's the worst that can happen? ;)


You can ring 999 (or 112) without a SIM anyway. Especially useful if you are out of range of your own operator but can get a signal on a different network.

Originally Posted by spiderplant (Post 36087315)

Test passed!

I still can't find where it says you can have up to 5 but I'm sure I didn't imagine it. But I have just noticed you have to use them every 6 months to keep them active, so I'll need to swap periodically

Originally Posted by cheekyangus (Post 36087356)

LOL :D

Top-ups only lasting 30 days isn't proper PAYG as far as I'm concerned. £10 a month and you'd be better with a no-contract SIM-only deal.

Originally Posted by spiderplant (Post 36087016)

Have you activated your new SIM? I found this was a bit of a pain because you can only do it while connected to their network but I had no signal at home.


I'm pretty sure I saw in the small print somewhere that you can have up to 5. I can't find it now, but it might have been in the paperwork that came with the SIM - can you check? I've just ordered another one as a test. What's the worst that can happen? ;)


You can ring 999 (or 112) without a SIM anyway. Especially useful if you are out of range of your own operator but can get a signal on a different network.