Going PAYG and keeping Number

inthegreen

I am on a contract with Orange (taken out before my LB moment). I also stupidly took out the insurance with Carphone Warehouse. I am thinking about using the insurance to break my contract, hand my phone back and go PAYG. (Cancelling the insurance staright after of course)

Does anyone know if I will be able to keep my number and will that mean staying with Orange? Also what is the best PAYG to go for? I need a Nokia Phone with Bluetooth (Company car has sophisticated handsfree Nokia thing built in).

Sorry if I am in the wrong bit but changing my mobile is part pof me wanting to be DF:T

oakdale_minx

I did this yesterday! I am with T-mobile and was spending £18 to £20 on a couple of calls a month with the monthly rental just being wasted money.

When I asked T-mobile to cancel my contract, they agreed to move me to PAYG and keep the same number because I am a very low user. They said they only offer this to low users. The £10 tht has been loaded on with last me months.

Means I have around £20 extra a month on my budget from next month - happy days!

inthegreen

unfortunately Orange won't do this for me so it means breaking the contract.

painted_lady

I had an orange contract, luckily was able to get out of it. I managed to keep the same number and go onto Virgin PAYG - I have managed to half my phone bill but still use it the same.
I bought a bluetooth enabled picture phone nokia on ebay for £70, although same model is now a lot cheaper (this was 18 months ago).
You can take your number to another network, but have to ring orange for a code, which you then give your new phone co. I only lost service for about half an hour.

ashden

I'm doing this at the mo. I'm waiting for the Carphone Warehouse to text me my PAC which has so far taken them a week to do.

I've bought a Tesco Value PAYG SIM (£1.73) which is good for making cheap calls and texts, but you can't get picture messages etc. I checked with Tesco and when I've got my PAC I can just call them up and get the number ported - I will also get £5 credit for doing so!

sparrer

Like painted lady, I switched from an Orange contract to Virgin payg, it took a couple of weeks but if you phone Orange for the PAC code first it speeds things up. Orange did try to persuade me to stay (been with them 7 years) but when I told them what Virgin ws offering they couldn't match it. Might be worth a try though.

itsarichmansworld

Sorry I used to work for Carphonewarehouse using the contract breaker in your insurance means you cannot keep your number as Cpw basically buy out your contract so its there number.

Best thing to do is either see out the contract but reduce the Line rental or take a new number,

Virgin has some great easy to remember numbers on PAYG

raq

oakdale_minx wrote:

I did this yesterday! I am with T-mobile and was spending £18 to £20 on a couple of calls a month with the monthly rental just being wasted money.

When I asked T-mobile to cancel my contract, they agreed to move me to PAYG and keep the same number because I am a very low user. They said they only offer this to low users. The £10 tht has been loaded on with last me months.

Means I have around £20 extra a month on my budget from next month - happy days!

I'm with Vodafone and my bills are only £20.00 - £22.00 per month with hardly any calls. We have had the phone for £10.00 and want to keep the same number. I am definately having PAYG in May when my contract finishes. When I have had problems in the past they have been no help at all , they just want your money.

fingers crossed I will then be able to through the extra towards my debts.

inthegreen

thank you all for your help, can someone suggest how I can find out which PAYG is the best deal?