Family of 4 Vodafone deal ended - Please Help!!

nicholasgary278

Hi, any advice on this would be greatly appreciated.

I took out a 4 phone contract with Vodafone 2 years ago, myself, wife and 2 kids.

We each had 600 minutes & Unlimited texts with new phones for £13 per month (£26 per month contract less 50% discount each) as I was a new customer taking out 4 x contracts.

Last year I bought the kids Blackberry phones and added the Blackberry pack to each of their phones for an extra £10 month each including 500mb usage.

I am now out of contract and paying the full £26 per month x 4 plus the £10 per month x 2 for Blackberry.

I am struggling to pay £124 per month now compared to £72 per month I was paying - haven't rang Vodafone yet, will wait for reply to see if there are any packages out there for similar.

Any advice much appreciated - thanks in advance

steveE2

Call Vodafone and get them changed to sim only,if you need the 600 minutes & Unlimited texts +500MB its £20.50 for each phone on a 12 month sim only contract including BB.

If any of you could manage with 300 mins +Unlimited texts +500MB it's £15.50 (on offer at £13.00 for orders before 31/03)
http://www.vodafone.co.uk/personal/price-plans/pay-monthly/sim-only-plans/index.htm#sml

spiro

another thing to remember with VF is if lots of the calls are between yourselves one of you can pay £5pm which allows you to set up 4 numbers (in total) which can all call each other for free.

Stuart_W

Switch over to Tesco Mobile SIM only?

500 mins, 5000 texts, 1GB data and Blackberry BBM service £12.50/month
500 mins, 5000 texts, 500MB data £10.00/month
250 mins, 5000 texts, no data, £7.50/month

http://phone-shop.tesco.com/tesco-mobile/sims/

Save a fortune each month, and only buy a new handset when required with the savings.
Try quoting these prices to Vodafone and see if they'll haggle down.

nicholasgary278

Thank you for your fantastic advice, gives me a bit of insight on wot to do next.
Would like to stick with Vodafone but that Tesco deal looks great value, if I knew the signal would hold up I'd seriously consider switching if Vodafone can't match - does anyone know a way to check signal quality for network coverage in area, maybe a site perhaps?

Thanks again

spiro

nicholasgary278 wrote: »

does anyone know a way to check signal quality for network coverage in area, maybe a site perhaps?

Find someone who has a phone on that network and try it at your house, forget sites as they only give an 'indication' so I would not base buying a SIM on that.

sdduk

nicholasgary278 wrote: »

Thank you for your fantastic advice, gives me a bit of insight on wot to do next.
Would like to stick with Vodafone but that Tesco deal looks great value, if I knew the signal would hold up I'd seriously consider switching if Vodafone can't match - does anyone know a way to check signal quality for network coverage in area, maybe a site perhaps?

Thanks again

Best bet is to ask someone that lives close to you what there signal is like

if you have an unlocked phone then go to link and order a free O2 sim card which Tesco and GiffGaff run off.
http://freesim.o2.co.uk/unlimited/clean

reclusive46

nicholasgary278 wrote: »

Thank you for your fantastic advice, gives me a bit of insight on wot to do next.
Would like to stick with Vodafone but that Tesco deal looks great value, if I knew the signal would hold up I'd seriously consider switching if Vodafone can't match - does anyone know a way to check signal quality for network coverage in area, maybe a site perhaps?

Thanks again

Have a look at http://www.o2.co.uk/coveragechecker for an indication and have a look at http://www.sitefinder.ofcom.org.uk/ to see where the O2 masts are. You can compare them to how far the Vodafone ones and it should give you a good idea of coverage.

nicholasgary278

hi guys,

thanks for all your help/info
rang vodafone and asked for pac codes, which they gave me
Told them i was going over to Tesco, a couple of hours later vodafone rang me and said:
"We don't want to lose one contract, never mind four - what do you want?"
I told them I was going to leave as there was a good deal with Tesco and ended up getting the following for each of our four contracts:-
600 minutes
Unlimited texts
500mb internet
1 gb bt openzone
Free vodafone friends and family (unlimited calls between 4 numbers)
Blackberry Messenger pack
4 x new blackberry phones

Had them all for £15.50 a month each - £60 total
Happy with that result, had to take it out over 2 years but cant complain

Thanks again - would be interested in your views on this deal

robbies_gal

i think that sounds great not really up with what voda are doing lately for new customers but 15 pounds for a new phone aswell sounds like a great deal