Batter down your annual mobile costs article Discussion Area

grekko_2

Not sure if this has been mentiond before ,but if you are an existing o2 customer the cost of calling Europe can be free for the sender if the recipient is also an o2 customer,provided they call from their selected postcode. This is done by using the monthly allowance (on PAYG) of 500 free minutes if a £10 top-up is paid each month, also the cost of calls to landlines are free within the UK if the postcode selected option is used.
Hope this helps save a few pennies to MSE forumites.
grekko

grekko_2

grekko wrote: »

Not sure if this has been mentiond before ,but if you are an existing o2 customer the cost of calling Europe can be free for the sender if the recipient is also an o2 customer,provided they call from their selected postcode. This is done by using the monthly allowance (on PAYG) of 500 free minutes if a £10 top-up is paid each month, also the cost of calls to landlines are free within the UK if the postcode selected option is used.
Hope this helps save a few pennies to MSE forumites.
grekko

It may state on the site link that international calls are £1:50 a minute , but you can be certain what I stated before is correct as my wife and I use this little freebie regularly when I visit Spain and she wishes to keep in contact and it costs me just 12p a minute to receive her calls.

eeek

I just rang O2, it's now time for my upgrade/renewal.

Current contract:

• £30/month,
• Samsung D900,
• 200 mins,
• 500 texts.

As well as the sim-only deals, the best I was offered:

• £30/month,
• a new phone,
• 200 mins,
• 400 texts.

So that's the same money, for less product??


My next call will be leaving, asking for my leaving port code thing...

EDIT: just rang up, asked for my PAC code, and it's on it's way! so much for 4 years of service @ £30/month

bazza512

Thanks to martins tactics to use i was able to get orange to give me the same deal 3 were offering with a better handset included.
Thanks very much martin
I was paying £30 for 200 x network mins now i am getting 225 x network and 100 texts with a new sony ericson walkman phone:j:T
The deal is now only costing me £15 what a saving just shows how much we all get ripped off

Karenina_2

I am profoundly deaf and I can only text messages on mobile phones. I cannot hear on the phone at all and yet there is not one company apart from Virgin who would offer a good package for text messages only. I have to take a package with text messages and air time as well which can be expensive for me. Does anyone know where I can get a good deal for text messages only. Many thanks.

Sid_Harper

Karenina wrote: »

I am profoundly deaf and I can only text messages on mobile phones. I cannot hear on the phone at all and yet there is not one company apart from Virgin who would offer a good package for text messages only. I have to take a package with text messages and air time as well which can be expensive for me. Does anyone know where I can get a good deal for text messages only. Many thanks.

Have you looked at T-mobile's Flext? You can use the inclusive bundle for texts or voice calls, your choice, and the £15 (£20 less £5 discount promotion they are doing now) one would give you 340 texts a month if you take their 18 month contract. I think that's not bad at all, unless you've got Virgin Media cable TV, then you can get a SIM-only £10/month deal which is 300 texts and 300 minutes (but no phone).

Finally, maybe the best of the lot, is T-mobile's "Text Appeal" pay as you go tariff that I've just spotted that does texts for 3p. That's no contract and 333 texts a month for a tenner IF YOU USE THAT MANY. So for you, I think probably the best deal!

sionyboy

Karenina wrote: »

I am profoundly deaf and I can only text messages on mobile phones. I cannot hear on the phone at all and yet there is not one company apart from Virgin who would offer a good package for text messages only. I have to take a package with text messages and air time as well which can be expensive for me. Does anyone know where I can get a good deal for text messages only. Many thanks.

Have you looked at T-Mobile's Flext plans? You get a monthly allowance that can be used on text mesaging or calltime. At the moment they are offering £5 off a month on their tariffs, so their Flext 20 is only £15 a month (that's on an 18 month contract)

http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/shop/mobile-phones/price-plans/pay-monthly/flext/plans/

edit: Beaten by 2 minutes! D'oh!

Sid_Harper

sionyboy wrote: »

Have you looked at T-Mobile's Flext plans? You get a monthly allowance that can be used on text mesaging or calltime. At the moment they are offering £5 off a month on their tariffs, so their Flext 20 is only £15 a month (that's on an 18 month contract)

http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/shop/mobile-phones/price-plans/pay-monthly/flext/plans/

edit: Beaten by 2 minutes! D'oh!

and suspiciously similar wording too... Just kidding.

All in all, for Karenina, I think the "text appeal" plan PAYG plan is the best though there is no phone included not being in a contract is a massive boon in my opinion...

http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/shop/mobile-phones/sim-card/pay-as-you-go/

And, if I'm not mistaken, if you top up with a tenner on a Friday you get unlimited texts for free all of that weekend! BONUS!

Martin_OB

Thank you MSE!

Just got off the phone to Orange. I have never had any problems with the service provided, but I always felt I was paying too much.

I joined in May 2005 and I had a deal with 200 free minutes and 500 texts a month, costing me £30 a month. Thanks to extra bundles such as photo messaging and internet (which I never used), that price creeped up to £41.

Thanks to the bartering techniques (and a bit of Scouse cheek!), I now have 800 free minutes, unlimited texts and it's only costing me £25! Added to that, I get a new phone and a magic number - and one month's free internet on evenings and weekends...and I don't have to change phone numbers!

I'm happy!

islasmila

I am currently paying £25 a month for 200 mins and 500 texts. My contract finishes on saturday and rang today to try this money saving technique out. I told them i want a free upgrade and reduce my bill to £15-20. They told me because they're a 'virtual network' (whatever that means) and she mentioned something about being owned or run by TMobile they are limited to the amount of tarriffs they can offer and can't go changing them for individual people. Is this right? I asked several times if there was anything they could do to keep me as i've been a customer for 7 years but they said unfortunately not. Tmobile here i come!