Virgin mobile £8.50/month 100 mins/texts contract inc. handset.

purplestar133

grimlea wrote: »

it is a 18 month contract

you might be better off on one of the sim only deals

http://www.virginmobile.com/vm/paymonthlySimOnly.do

no 12 or 18 month contract

Oh ok, I glossed over that bit! What happens after the 18 months then? I presume they'd ask you to upgrade to a different contract. What if you don't want to? Can you still keep the phone?

John_G66

medicinewoman wrote: »

hello again Cobra

I have just been through to Orange!
apparantly this is a loyalty deal
Racoon plan with a 20% websave and loyalty discount
plus a 10% line rental discount
bringing the total to £8.50 pm

(I dialled 1-4-3 at the prompts)
but the Lady named Lynne is now off until Sunday 8.30 am -8.30 pm
extension 60618 team 140

maybe it would be best to wait until then..?
I have asked Orange to send me the detailed breakdown information by post
when I receive that info' I shall post the message.

I'll be having a go at this deal myself in a couple of months, I currently pay £25 a month this includes my home broadband, anyone know if the above would include free home broadband, it says on the orange website 'home broadband free with any mobile phone contract'.

gurn1427

I just got a mobile phone beal for my wife which works out at £5.60 per month for 100 anytime/anynetwork minutes and unlimited texts on O2.

The deal is through Mobiles.co.uk (a subsidiary of Carphonewarehouse). We got a Nokia 6300 (which is quite an old model but a good one which still appears on much higher value contracts). you sign up to the Online 15 (24 Month) tariff and choose the option for 15 months line rental for free. This is a redemption offer so you have to claim it back over the 2 years but that means that over the 2 years you claim back £225 of the total £360 line rental paid!

Alternatively, you can claim an automatic cashback of £110. different models provide different offers. So you can get the new Nokia 5800, but you would only get 5 months free line rental.

:T

grimlea

purplestar133 wrote: »

Oh ok, I glossed over that bit! What happens after the 18 months then? I presume they'd ask you to upgrade to a different contract. What if you don't want to? Can you still keep the phone?

yeah you can keep the phone, its yours when contract finishes. you could go on a sim only or take another contract/upgrade

mum_of_4

The one that virgin send is it locked to them, so for example would I be able to sell a phone locked into virgin, I don't want to change my phone so would want the sim in my current virgin phone. Could I say include a virgin sim with the phone?

pete114

As a family we've used various network providers in the search for the best deal. We travel around the country a little bit with work and also visiting friends and family. We have found T Mobile to be by far the worst coverage of all the ones we've tried (even when swapping sims to different phones). The claimed coverage was NOWHERE near as good as claimed with frequent loss of service and limited service (999 only). When we tried to get out of the deal (Carphone warehouse washed their hands and didn't want to know - there's one to avoid) we had a hell of a fight to get out of it - the law is really poor in this respect, and the operators know it.
Unfortunately, and I think this isn't suprising anyone, we keep coming back to O2 (ex Cellnet - British Telecom) as the service having by far a virtually uninterrupted coverage. I remember also having a company phone on Vodaphone a few years back and that also had excellent coverage all over the country. I'm afraid you gets what you pays for and the "original two" are still the best performers, and inevitably charge a little more as they have had to invest in and maintain infrastructure over the years to provide quality of coverage. The rest are just pretenders set up by entrepeneurs (for entrepeneur read 'leech on society's back') to take away your money for the worst service (in all respects) that they can possibly get away with... obviously this is just my humble opinion!

debrooc

gurn1427 wrote: »

I just got a mobile phone beal for my wife which works out at £5.60 per month for 100 anytime/anynetwork minutes and unlimited texts on O2.

The deal is through Mobiles.co.uk (a subsidiary of Carphonewarehouse). We got a Nokia 6300 (which is quite an old model but a good one which still appears on much higher value contracts). you sign up to the Online 15 (24 Month) tariff and choose the option for 15 months line rental for free. This is a redemption offer so you have to claim it back over the 2 years but that means that over the 2 years you claim back £225 of the total £360 line rental paid!

Alternatively, you can claim an automatic cashback of £110. different models provide different offers. So you can get the new Nokia 5800, but you would only get 5 months free line rental.

:T

I have looked on the mobiles.co.uk but cannot find the online 15 tariff - can you direct me to it please.
debrooc

bigsaverCol

Same post as above. If your phone works then go for a Liberty Sim. Check Virgins charges after the free 200, they look cheap as well. Also, Virgin do not charge for voicemail.
Biased as I've been with Virgin for years and no problems. Just bought a new Nokia for £20 via Virgin which my daughter says is a cool phone.

grimlea

pete114 wrote: »

As a family we've used various network providers in the search for the best deal. We travel around the country a little bit with work and also visiting friends and family. We have found T Mobile to be by far the worst coverage of all the ones we've tried (even when swapping sims to different phones). The claimed coverage was NOWHERE near as good as claimed with frequent loss of service and limited service (999 only). When we tried to get out of the deal (Carphone warehouse washed their hands and didn't want to know - there's one to avoid) we had a hell of a fight to get out of it - the law is really poor in this respect, and the operators know it.
Unfortunately, and I think this isn't suprising anyone, we keep coming back to O2 (ex Cellnet - British Telecom) as the service having by far a virtually uninterrupted coverage. I remember also having a company phone on Vodaphone a few years back and that also had excellent coverage all over the country. I'm afraid you gets what you pays for and the "original two" are still the best performers, and inevitably charge a little more as they have had to invest in and maintain infrastructure over the years to provide quality of coverage. The rest are just pretenders set up by entrepeneurs (for entrepeneur read 'leech on society's back') to take away your money for the worst service (in all respects) that they can possibly get away with... obviously this is just my humble opinion!

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1501509http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1501509

hpuse

pete114 wrote: »

As a family we've used various network providers in the search for the best deal. We travel around the country a little bit with work and also visiting friends and family. We have found T Mobile to be by far the worst coverage of all the ones we've tried (even when swapping sims to different phones). The claimed coverage was NOWHERE near as good as claimed with frequent loss of service and limited service (999 only). When we tried to get out of the deal (Carphone warehouse washed their hands and didn't want to know - there's one to avoid) we had a hell of a fight to get out of it - the law is really poor in this respect, and the operators know it.
Unfortunately, and I think this isn't suprising anyone, we keep coming back to O2 (ex Cellnet - British Telecom) as the service having by far a virtually uninterrupted coverage. I remember also having a company phone on Vodaphone a few years back and that also had excellent coverage all over the country. I'm afraid you gets what you pays for and the "original two" are still the best performers, and inevitably charge a little more as they have had to invest in and maintain infrastructure over the years to provide quality of coverage. The rest are just pretenders set up by entrepeneurs (for entrepeneur read 'leech on society's back') to take away your money for the worst service (in all respects) that they can possibly get away with... obviously this is just my humble opinion!

I couldn't agree more with the above.
T-mobile coverage is the worst, and then comes Three. Irony is, both these companies currently offer cheapest tariffs to attract customers. Once they join, they learn the lesson for 12 months. Very good.
If you are serious about coverage, I would suggest Vodafone, knowing how serious they are about their infrastructure and quality of service.
If you are prepared to keep the phone near the window always, go for virgin its cheap and thats what you pay for and get from.