Payg

lazy&indebt

Ello everyone, hope you are all having a good'un

Quick question, when you guys go on about a 'PAYG' phone, do you mean pay as you go? I always thought it was some miraculously cheap tarriff or something?! Ha!

moozie_2

Yes that's right Pay As You Go - PAYG

msmicawber

Hi,

It just means paying for credit as and when you needed it, rather than being tied into a contract.

nomoneytoday

T mobile do 12p a minute to any network. You would need to use 145 mins to reach the £17.50 a month of a normal contract phone..

msArcher

A similar question...

When you switched to payg from contract, did you stay with the same provider? Did you manage to keep your number - Seeing as I barely use the phone these days, I'm seriously considering swapping, but don't want the hassle of changing numbers...

MrsTinks

You can take your number with you Even across networks and call plans etc the choice is yours

kathfisch

msArcher wrote:

A similar question...

When you switched to payg from contract, did you stay with the same provider? Did you manage to keep your number - Seeing as I barely use the phone these days, I'm seriously considering swapping, but don't want the hassle of changing numbers...

I think you can usually keep the same number - sometimes there's a few days delay in switching the number over etc and I think some companies ask you to pay a small fee. I guess you'd have to ask whichever company you're with. Someone correct me if not, but it might be possible to keep your number even if you move to payg with a different company... worth checking although I could be wrong. That would leave you free to choose whichever payg is cheaper :T

Perhaps the very knowledgeable people on the telephones board will be more help! take everything i say with a pinch of salt!!

Edit: ah, I see tine has answered the question properly, thank you :cool:

postingalwaysposting

payg is much much better than contract, especially for people (like me) who never ever uses there phone its much cheaper, but saying that if someone is a chatter box/has a business contracts are good, its swings and roundabouts really.....

btw i have gone from contract to payg (on orange) and kept my number, but i am now going from orange to vodaphone and i dunno if to keep my number or not....

Franko43

I changed from Orange to EasyMobile PAYG. Calls 15p cheaper and txts 5p cheaper. Also got a tenner free + another £5 when I told them I was refered by somone on this board. The referer also gets £5. Only thing is I think you must use £5 every month or get charged 75p per month. Its still a cracking deal, monthly bill down from £37 to £21 )

looby75

postingalwaysposting wrote:

but saying that if someone is a chatter box/has a business contracts are good, its swings and roundabouts really.....

Contract is also better if you have family or friends who don't have a land line. I found payg much more expensive for making calls to people who have mobiles on a different network than mine. On my contract I have x-network mins included so it doesn't matter which network my sisters and my ex are on (they all seem to jump from network to network every 5 mins, where as I have been with o2 forever!)

postingalwaysposting

very true looby, i think you have to look at how much you use etc etc and who you phone etc etc, when i took up my contract i was still in college so was using it very much (nearly to the max) but in the last 6months i have hardly used it :rolleyes:

i think people who take on contracts need to think about it, not get cornered in a shop and then tied in for 12/18 months (as you wont know how much you would use till a few months in after your cooling off period)