Virgin Blackberry Curve

Lleucu

Is this a good deal?

Provider : Virgin
Handset: Blackberry Curve, free
Minutes: 50
Texts: 250
Cost: £12.26 a month
Contract length: 24 months

Cant quite work out if insurance is compulsory.

Does anyone use this provider, what is the downside? The cheapest deal I can see elsewhere is Orange nothing less than £20 including the Blackberry email.

jb66

Its a good deal if your a very low talker, insurance is optional. The signal on virgin is the worst of all providers but you get a

money back

happiness

guarantee

, so try it for a week.

JJ_Egan

he signal on virgin is the worst of all providers but you get a

Virgins signal is TMobile .

jje

fiscalfreckles

I would check whether you ned to add a bolt on (or whatever Virgin call it) for that - Blackberrys often need that for BBmessenger and email etc. Hence why Orange can't do it for less than £20 - I have been trying to talk them down as a retention deal for a while, but thay don't seem able to budge.

Sorry - just looked at Virgin deal and see the above is all included, so I'd say that was a great price. Not heard great things about Virgin's coverage though. Depends on your area.

Layla

Is this a better deal?

http://www.buymobilephones.net/mobile-phones/BlackBerry/BlackBerry-Curve-8520-White-Clearance-Free-Line-Rental-Discount/O2/O2-50-(24mths)/9114444?adnetwork=af

I know nothing about mobile phone contracts having been on PAYG for years but am thinking about going back on a contract to get a better phone. I have been looking around on the internet for a day or two and on the face of it this deal looks better, but I'm sure I must be missing something?

lucylucky

You could always buy a phone (if you can afford the upfront cost)

fiscalfreckles

Layla wrote: »

Is this a better deal?

http://www.buymobilephones.net/mobile-phones/BlackBerry/BlackBerry-Curve-8520-White-Clearance-Free-Line-Rental-Discount/O2/O2-50-(24mths)/9114444?adnetwork=af

I know nothing about mobile phone contracts having been on PAYG for years but am thinking about going back on a contract to get a better phone. I have been looking around on the internet for a day or two and on the face of it this deal looks better, but I'm sure I must be missing something?

That doesn't seem to include any data or email though.

screamer

Both me and OH got this deal (although because I'm a Virgin Media customer I only pay a tenner a month) and it already includes 500mb internet usage, free unlimited email and free unlimited BB messenger. It works for us because we have a good signal and because chatting to each other and emailing is free we don't use anywhere near our maximum net usage or use all of our text or call allowance, but we are relatively light users. If you don't use your phone too often for calls and/or texts it's perfect. We love ours and yes, it is an awful lot cheaper than anyone else.

Don't forget Quidco :-)

ETA, no the insurance isn't compulsory. I think you can opt out of it at checkout. I know we don't pay it and we didn't have to call Virgin to cancel it or anything. Virgin also charge delivery fees, a fiver per phone I think.

MiM

Just got a cold call from Virgin - I'm a customer but never had mobile with them.

They added anytime phone calls for house phone to start with.

When I said wife and I might both be interested if deal was good enough she said she could offer nothing on our first choice, HTC Desire.

As I was about to go she offered two BB Curves with 100 minutes, 500 texts 1gb internet all for £7.15 each!

Delighted with this, took two.