Sim Only £5 Monthly - Where is the best

Kefi

Please Oracles of Great Wisdom help me. I have trawled sites and shops for the following. A sim only for £5 a month with 300 txts and little minute time. I saw the asda thing but I would like more texts.

I cant find anything. I need this for my daughter 13 as she travels to and from school alone. She doesnt need much call time as I can ring her back but having texts is impt, as I may be in a meeting when she needs to tell me she is in an after school club.
Ta me darlingsXXX

bizzybee

Have you looked at GiffGaff? Just got my son unlimited texts for £5 but they had 300 texts plus 60 minutes for £5 too.

http://giffgaff.com/

Neil49

The advantage of giffgaff is that you can have both the unlimited texts goodybag at £5 per month (as mentioned by bizzybee above) but also have some credit on the account which she can use for calls at 10p per minute. This credit doesn't expire after a month, it's just like payg.

You can also switch between goodybags i.e you can have unlimited texts one month, then the 300 texts + 60 mins goodybag the next month. If you don't renew then you just automatically drop back to standard payg where rates are 10p/min for calls and 6p per text.

The rates I quote are effective from 6th October.

Giffgaff use the O2 network so you may need to unlock the phone.

grumbler

Chitter-chatter do 100+unltd for £6. Add the free Unltd Texts booster.

Stuart_W

If you are sure you want to go down the monthly billed route, Vectone do 100 minutes, unlimited texts and 100MB of data for £5/month.

Howver, Orange PAYG might be worth a quick heads up.
A £10 top up on dolphin or monkey provides 400 free texts as a top up reward for 30 days. This does not use any of the credit. £10 remains on the phone. After the 30 days runs out, using the phone credit buy a £5 unlimited text extra - providing unlimited texts for the next 30 days.
Using this method, a £10 top up every two months - so the same as £5 per month - provides at least 400 texts each month and £5 extra credit to be used if required (which would be enough for 25 minutes of calls if needed). Also no risk of unintentionally running up a big bill. You can always add a top up yourself from the orange website if she needs it.