Which UK Pay As You Go Mobile Providers Let You Keep Your £10 Top Up?

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Guys_Dad wrote: »

Check their call tariff. The rate is over 3 times their Tesco Lite per minute cost, so no wonder they triple your credit!

Yep. 25p a minute to UK Landlines and Mobiles /10p a text . So at that rate your probaly soon have to top up again.

You get 125 minutes on Tesco Lite for £10 and you can use them when you like.

You only get 120 on triple your credit for £10 and 80 of these must be used in one month.

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The "keep your credit" thing can be a fallacy.

Consider this:

Orange gives you 400 texts and 100MB data and you "keep your £10 credit" for calls. Calls are 25p/minute, so your £10 gets you:

*40 minutes
*400 texts
*100MB data

A SIM Only from Three would cost you £6.90, and give you:

*200 minutes (5 times as much)
*5000 texts (12 times as much)
*500MB data (5 times as much)

for £3.10 a month less.

With deals like that, what's the point in "keeping your credit"?

(Tesco Mobile's "triple your credit" is a similar fallacy - top up £10, get £30 credit, but at 25p a minute, your £10 is still only buying you 120 minutes.)