sim only pay monthly recommendations
 

My contract is up in a couple of months and I'm gonna keep my phone (Note 3) but looking for a sim only contract, rolling month, with around 500 mins, 500 texts and unlimited data for no more than £20pm.
Found carphone warehouse ID, unlimited on all 3 but it's on 3 and signal in my part of the world is pretty bad on 3.
Any other recommendation's.

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If you can get good O2 coverage then you might consider GiffGaff.
https://www.giffgaff.com/goodybags-3g

For £20 you would get ...https://www.giffgaff.com/goodybags/2...mited-internet

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Forgot about giff gaff, I'm on O2 at the moment but signal isn't stellar where I live. But with O2 you get tugo which allows calls through interweb which mitigates the poor signal.

I'll add to my with list calling and text over WiFi via an app.

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Delight mobile offer an unlimited bundle for £15
Carrier is EE
http://www.delightmobile.co.uk/bundl...ht-bundle.aspx

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Except they'll have the same 3G coverage as 3.

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EE will have different coverage to Three

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How may GB do you really need, bt do a 20GB 4G option, the people operator does a 31GB option

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Their 3G coverage is becoming more and more similar by the day.

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Most people pay for more than three times what they actually need.

I'm a "heavy user" and rarely use more than 0.5GB. The average "unlimited" customer uses around 2-3GB.

Lyca has an unlimited data plan (possibly 4G as well) for around £15, and runs on the "other" network (O2/Cornerstone).

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Not in my experiance. We have 3 and EE phones in the family: 3 is generally faster when you have a signal (in and around major routes plus metro areas) but you get more chance of 3G from EE out of town.

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Your experience doesn't override the fact they use the same network.

Your experience also doesn't override the fact that OFCOM's tests show 3 to be the slowest network in the UK.

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TBH I don't know :dunce: I want to start listening to internet radio during the day at work 8+ hours a day plus streaming video's at lunchtime.

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Proof please that 3 and EE use the same network

This matches my experience, from: http://www.rootmetrics.com/uk/blog/s...ormance-report

http://www.rootmetrics.com/_themes/r...uk_winners.png

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https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=MBNL
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=th...+network+share
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/201...ork-share.html
http://www.mobilenewscwp.co.uk/2010/...are-completed/
http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk...ves/2011/MBNL/
http://telecoms.com/149762/ericsson-...hared-network/


Commercial, unscientific testing by a US company vs independent tests by the UK government regulators, I know which one I'm more likely to believe. Not to mention your results do not quote actual speeds anywhere, only arbitrary "score" indexes, calculated from unknown figures and secret methodology they refuse to disclose.

http://media.ofcom.org.uk/news/2014/3g-4g-bb-speeds/

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2015/05/1.gif

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Sharing mast sites does not equate to the same experience: different frequencies, backhaul networks, network management, etc.

Putting a pin in the map and checking the 3 and EE coverage from their own websites. Very, very different. Why so is these are the same network?

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I know what I believe ... what I see on my phone :D

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I never said the same experience. I said they use the same network.

But for the record they use the same frequency bands, the same backhaul networks, and the same network management. Which would be quite clear if you read the links I posted earlier.

Because they calculate coverage differently and because you are looking at completely different types of map to what we're talking about. OFCOM are the only party that has coverage maps for all the networks computed using the criteria, and they calculate the two networks have practically identical 3G coverage. Again, read the link I posted earlier if you want to see coverage maps you can actually make direct comparisons with.

Quit trying to move the goalposts and wiggle out of this.