which pay as you go along chip should i use?

building

i and my partner have had a nightmare year on contract with carphone warehouse / vodafone and now my contract has ended i wish to go with a pay as you go along and NOT use vodafone either . i am in france quite a lot at the moment and need to keep my old phone number in the phone that i had on contract. what are the best options from people experience of pay as you go along. am thinking so far of 02. anything i should be aware of? thanks in advance.

redux

I don't think you'll like this - the best UK payg SIM for roaming in France will be Vodafone, with their Passport option, so I'd ask to convert the contract to pay as you go. This means calls at the same as the home tariff, plus 75p per call. Other UK networks will charge 60p to £1 per minute for outgoing calls, and quite a bit for incoming as well

Think about a French SIM card as well - info at
http://www.prepaidgsm.net/en/france.html

Ordinary call rates are quite high in France, but SFR and Orange have some interesting add-on options. I'd get one of these and use a calling card via a French landline access number.

building

keep the uk mobile number for a while still. how does the passport option work? thakns in advance.

redux wrote:

I don't think you'll like this - the best UK payg SIM for roaming in France will be Vodafone, with their Passport option, so I'd ask to convert the contract to pay as you go. This means calls at the same as the home tariff, plus 75p per call. Other UK networks will charge 60p to £1 per minute for outgoing calls, and quite a bit for incoming as well

Think about a French SIM card as well - info at
http://www.prepaidgsm.net/en/france.html

Ordinary call rates are quite high in France, but SFR and Orange have some interesting add-on options. I'd get one of these and use a calling card via a French landline access number.

mobilegossip

building wrote:

how does the passport option work? thakns in advance.

If you make a little effort yourself your find out how it works on Voda Site.
See : http://online.vodafone.co.uk/dispatch/Portal/appmanager/vodafone/wrp?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=Page_BOS_MainContent&pageID=GM_0337

deutzkiwi

Just fyi (and I dont think you'll like this either, sorry!) I dont think voda cpw can just converty their sim cards to payg, you'll need to request a pac code from them, buy a new voda sim card, and register the pac code to that. To get a pac from voda cpw you need to call them, they'll give you a refernence number and address, and you need to write in with the refernce number, your details, and they'll txt you the code. A hassle, I know, but thats how they do it.

Somone correct me if I'm wrong though about having to get a new sim.