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capped contract?
Hi,
Im looking for a mobile contract for my father. It can be sim only or with phone. I am looking for mobile companies that can cap the contract at a max price, for instances like he didnt lock it and it dialied numbers in his pocket & rang up a massive bill. (hes not the most mobile savvy person). He is currently with o2 and topping up £10 a week, this is too costly for what he is getting.
any advice or help would be much appreciated.
Im looking for a mobile contract for my father. It can be sim only or with phone. I am looking for mobile companies that can cap the contract at a max price, for instances like he didnt lock it and it dialied numbers in his pocket & rang up a massive bill. (hes not the most mobile savvy person). He is currently with o2 and topping up £10 a week, this is too costly for what he is getting.
any advice or help would be much appreciated.
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Do you really need a contract in the first place? Why not PAYG?0
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Look at some of the SIM only contracts - Some are as little as £5.11 a month [Carphone Warehouse] or £6 a month [T-Mobile] however i don't think they can/want to cap the service when you reach a certain level?:dance:Quidco Payments In 2011 - £724.21 :dance:
June: £43.15/July: £51.22/August: £90.60/September: £29.75/October: £284.07/November: £171.08/December: £29.220 -
Hi,
Im looking for a mobile contract for my father. It can be sim only or with phone. I am looking for mobile companies that can cap the contract at a max price, for instances like he didnt lock it and it dialied numbers in his pocket & rang up a massive bill. (hes not the most mobile savvy person). He is currently with o2 and topping up £10 a week, this is too costly for what he is getting.
any advice or help would be much appreciated.
Tesco do a SIM only capped product, but they are the only people to still do so. http://phone-shop.tesco.com/tesco-mobile/simonly?Type=CappedSimCard&CarouselType=NetworkTopCappedSIMsCarousel
once out of credit you need to top up like PAYG
Three will allow you to set a zero balance so once you run out of credit you should be stopped from running up a bill however they specifially state in the terms and conditions that this mechanism should ne be used for budgetting, It's possible to run up a bill on this (say premium texts or calls made outside the UK) and the bill payer will still be liable for all costs.0 -
Something like O2 simplicity on pay and go may work, you basically prepay from your credit for 100 or 300 minutes w/ texts, and as it's pay and go the worse that will happen if he goes over is any credit left will be used up.
I'm sure most networks do a similar pay and go thing.0
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