Cheapest/Best Mobile Operator

[ruddock08]

Don't know if this is in the right place but..

What is the cheapest mobile operator tariff at the moment?

Texts Minutes Rewards

Orange 3p 20p Magic Numbers, 120 evening weekend minutes
Vodafone 10p 20p Free Weekends
T-Mobile 10p 20p Unknown
O2 10p 35p Free texts, Bolt ons.
Virgin 100 texts 100 mins (payg contract £10)

was looking at £10 300 300 tariff but you have to give a full 30 days notice.
i use phone mostly at weekends, both texts and minutes.
let me know if you find any good payg offers or contracts but they have to be £10/ month.

cheers.

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anyone?

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anyone?

[zinglebarb]

Well you are not gonna get much better for a tenner. Also please be patient it is Saturday night

[i-Set]

for 10 quid these days matey your gonna get jack all, having said that if you take out a cheap contract in the region of 20 quid a month and stay with the operator for a year or beyond, then when that contract is over they will offer you a cheaper tariff and more mins and texts when you upgrade that is. id recommend this pathway...or there are cashback deals from cpw, phones4u, e2save etc.

i remember one deal from p4u 500 mins 400 txts 30 quid a month, but because you get cashback it works out that your only paying 6 a month. ah decisions decisions....

ruddock btw what happened...u never added me on ps3 network...add me if you like for cod4 or fifa 08 (fifa 09 soon)

[zinglebarb]

o2 simplicity till the end of the month sim only 600 mins and a bolt on so say unlimited texts for £20

[SnoopZ]

Not sure if this applies to the o2 simplicity sim but on the normal pay and go simcard they tricked me into changing my tariff, which now means you don't get any free mms messages or 1meg of data!

[Shaun]

Vodafone sim only - one month contract - 600 min, unlimited texts all for £20 a month. Couple that with the offer at cash back kings £90 cashback - paid at the end of the 4th month means you get it all and get given £10 over the 4 months!!!

[tweetypie/8]

Originally Posted by ruddock08

Don't know if this is in the right place but..

What is the cheapest mobile operator tariff at the moment?

Texts Minutes Rewards

Orange 3p 20p Magic Numbers, 120 evening weekend minutes
Vodafone 10p 20p Free Weekends
T-Mobile 10p 20p Unknown
O2 10p 35p Free texts, Bolt ons.
Virgin 100 texts 100 mins (payg contract £10)

was looking at £10 300 300 tariff but you have to give a full 30 days notice.
i use phone mostly at weekends, both texts and minutes.
let me know if you find any good payg offers or contracts but they have to be £10/ month.

cheers.

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anyone?

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anyone?

first choice for me is virgin,300@300 is hard to beat plus their cs is excellent.

[i-Set]

Originally Posted by tweetypie/8

first choice for me is virgin,300@300 is hard to beat plus their cs is excellent.

yes but what is their network and coverage like?

they dont have their own one do they...i read somewhere that they use some other operators?

[Zee]

You're not going to get much for £10 per month, but for £15 or £20 per month, "3" do some decent deals with free phones.

www.three.co.uk

[MoodySuzie]

www.02.co.uk

i find these cheap, plus you get extra bonuses and rewards

[m419]

Originally Posted by ruddock08

Don't know if this is in the right place but..

What is the cheapest mobile operator tariff at the moment?

Texts Minutes Rewards

Orange 3p 20p Magic Numbers, 120 evening weekend minutes
Vodafone 10p 20p Free Weekends
T-Mobile 10p 20p Unknown
O2 10p 35p Free texts, Bolt ons.
Virgin 100 texts 100 mins (payg contract £10)

was looking at £10 300 300 tariff but you have to give a full 30 days notice.
i use phone mostly at weekends, both texts and minutes.
let me know if you find any good payg offers or contracts but they have to be £10/ month.

cheers.

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anyone?

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anyone?

Virgin Mobile offers 200 mins and texts for £10 per month on pay as you go for Virgin Media customers, if you or someone you live with are Virgin Media customers then you are eligible for this offer. Just call 789 press 0 to speak to someone and say 'you'd like the 200 mins and 200 texts offer for £10 and they will put you through to sales team which will take the following details:

Your Virgin Mobile phone number
Name and address of where Virgin Mobile account is registered.
Virgin Mobile password if you have one.
Virgin Media Account number
Post code of Virgin Media account

You dont need the Virgin Media account holders permission and there details are not required, however, the Virgin Mobile and Virgin Media must be at the same address.

You also get free voicemail on Virgin Mobile and you also get Call Waiting,Call Hold and 15p per minute call rate to 08 numbers unlike anyother pay as you go network.

For every £100 you spend,you get £10 off a new phone.

When you run out of minutes you pay one flat rate of 15p per minute and 10p per text to any UK network or landline, texts to other virgin mobiles are 5p. You also get 5 mins of free calls and 5 free texts everyday too.

Prefer to call UK landlines and Virgin Mobiles?

Then the Standard tariff offers calls to UK landlines and Virgin Mobile phones for 5p per minute after the first 5 minutes of calls each day, texts to other Virgin mobile's cost 5p. And as usual, Voicemail,Call Waiting and Call hold are absolutely free!

[Chris]

Originally Posted by i-Set

yes but what is their network and coverage like?

they dont have their own one do they...i read somewhere that they use some other operators?

Most 'virtual network' operators in the UK are carried by T-Mobile. I believe Virgin's phone service is no exception.

T-Mobile is by far the least well-developed 2-G network in the UK, although you only tend to suffer the effects of that if you go away from the towns and cities. I live in a very rural spot, and only Orange works reliably inside my house, but Voda and O2 are both available - sort of - if you stand in the right place, or go outside. T-Mobile, on the other hand, don't even pretend to offer service here, which excludes me from all sorts of cheap deals.

I don't use my phone much and was very tempted by Ikea's pay-as-you-go SIM only offer, until I found that they, too, are carried by T-Mobile.

Ah well. At least with not using the phone very much, it actually doesn't matter too much who I get my service from. A fiver a month is a fiver a month ...

[ruddock08]

Originally Posted by i-Set

ruddock btw what happened...u never added me on ps3 network...add me if you like for cod4 or fifa 08 (fifa 09 soon)

sorry mate, busy atm, add me? ruddock08.

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Originally Posted by m419

Virgin Mobile offers 200 mins and texts for £10 per month on pay as you go for Virgin Media customers, if you or someone you live with are Virgin Media customers then you are eligible for this offer. Just call 789 press 0 to speak to someone and say 'you'd like the 200 mins and 200 texts offer for £10 and they will put you through to sales team which will take the following details

had a look and they've changed it to 100 mins 100 texts now, which if i used 100 mins and 100 texts atm with my asda mobile sim it would still be £12. thanks anyway.

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Originally Posted by Chris

Most 'virtual network' operators in the UK are carried by T-Mobile. I believe Virgin's phone service is no exception.

T-Mobile is by far the least well-developed 2-G network in the UK, although you only tend to suffer the effects of that if you go away from the towns and cities. I live in a very rural spot, and only Orange works reliably inside my house, but Voda and O2 are both available - sort of - if you stand in the right place, or go outside. T-Mobile, on the other hand, don't even pretend to offer service here, which excludes me from all sorts of cheap deals.

I don't use my phone much and was very tempted by Ikea's pay-as-you-go SIM only offer, until I found that they, too, are carried by T-Mobile.

Ah well. At least with not using the phone very much, it actually doesn't matter too much who I get my service from. A fiver a month is a fiver a month ...

try asda mobile, they piggyback off vodafone and so far are brilliant coverage! and 8p a min and 4p a text.

[dragon]

Originally Posted by Chris

Most 'virtual network' operators in the UK are carried by T-Mobile. I believe Virgin's phone service is no exception.

T-Mobile is by far the least well-developed 2-G network in the UK, although you only tend to suffer the effects of that if you go away from the towns and cities. I live in a very rural spot, and only Orange works reliably inside my house, but Voda and O2 are both available - sort of - if you stand in the right place, or go outside. T-Mobile, on the other hand, don't even pretend to offer service here, which excludes me from all sorts of cheap deals.

I don't use my phone much and was very tempted by Ikea's pay-as-you-go SIM only offer, until I found that they, too, are carried by T-Mobile.

Ah well. At least with not using the phone very much, it actually doesn't matter too much who I get my service from. A fiver a month is a fiver a month ...

Depends on the operator.

Networks known to use another Operator's infrastructure (From memory so may not be 100% accurate)

Virgin = T-mobile
Tesco = O2
BT mobile, Asda = vodafone
'3' (When out of 3G coverage) = Orange

[Womble]

T-Mobile and 3 agree to share their respective 3G networks in order to bring high-speed mobile broadband services throughout the UK by 2009


http://www.knowyourmobile.com/blog/7..._networks.html