Cheapest sim card for calls for elderly parent

bwhitt

We're buying my aged dad a large button mobile phone for Christmas so that when he goes into respite care two or three times a year, he can call my mum without asking to use the care home phone. What's the cheapest way to buy a sim card for the phone (my brother is buying the phone and we're doing the sim card) just for calls, and just a few a year at that!

Silk

Hi bwhit,
We had a similar situation and we got a Tesco one for £5 which has £10 credit on it I think it's something like 10p a min for fav numbers and the coverage seems to be good as I believe its on O2 ???
I think they also double what you top up too although it's hardly used so not done that yet.

utilitybroker

Silk wrote: »

Hi bwhit,
We had a similar situation and we got a Tesco one for £5 which has £10 credit on it I think it's something like 10p a min for fav numbers and the coverage seems to be good as I believe its on O2 ???
I think they also double what you top up too although it's hardly used so not done that yet.

Low users are likely to be better off on the Tesco Lite Tariff http://www.tesco.com/mobilenetwork/payasyougo.aspx?page=84

Free sims are available https://www.tescomobile-freesim.co.uk/lite-sim/