Last days of Giffgaff??

GRM

I run two giffgaff accounts for my kids. For £10/month each they usually use 300+ texts, 150+ minutes and around 750MB. I get the convenience of auto goodybag renewal and auto top-ups without the possibility of bill shock from a lost phone.

Do any of the other mentioned MVNOs offer the same convenience for their usage levels at a significantly lower price?

rwalton159

Well it works for my wife, daughter and me.

Herongull

GRM wrote: »

I run two giffgaff accounts for my kids. For £10/month each they usually use 300+ texts, 150+ minutes and around 750MB. I get the convenience of auto goodybag renewal and auto top-ups without the possibility of bill shock from a lost phone.

Do any of the other mentioned MVNOs offer the same convenience for their usage levels at a significantly lower price?

Given your kid's usage levels (Heavy) and the fact that you (very sensibly) want them on PAYG, Giffgaff does look your best bet.

However as you have set topups to auto, won't that mean that you will still get a very big bill shock if one of the kid's phones is lost or stolen and you/they don't notice immediately?

The thief will make lots of expensive calls and the phone be continually topping up (at your expense!):eek: I recommend you switch it off and do manual topups to give yourself the protection you expect from PAYG.

Otherwise it could be a far worse bill shock than with a contract phone. Also rather than making a call to the mobile company, when you do realise the phone is stolen, you will then have go online (which you may not be able to do if you are out and about) to switch autotopup off.

However it is true that for people who are a heavy users AND want to avoid the big financial risk of a lost or stolen contract sim (and other financial risks from contracts), Giffgaff still makes financial sense.

But only a proportion of GG users are heavy users, and most/many of these have set topup to auto, thereby giving themselves similar financial risk to sim-only contract.:eek:

GRM

Auto topups are limited to a maximum of 3 a month so my max exposure is £30 per phone.

LE3

I use the giffgaff £5 gigabag for my iPad and it's not let me down yet ... Not found anything comparable from any other provider

Herongull

LE3 wrote: »

I use the giffgaff £5 gigabag for my iPad and it's not let me down yet ... Not found anything comparable from any other provider

Ovivo is much cheaper for this.

Giffgaff 500mb Gigabag £5

Ovivo equivalent £0

sillygoose

Herongull wrote: »

However it is true that for people who are a heavy users AND want to avoid the big financial risk of a lost or stolen contract sim (and other financial risks from contracts), Giffgaff still makes financial sense.

But only a proportion of GG users are heavy users, and most/many of these have set topup to auto, thereby giving themselves similar financial risk to sim-only contract.:eek:

a fair assessment

I don't have auto topup on because if it ever needs topping up, something has gone badly wrong for me! :eek:

I still have some doubts that Giffgaff will last forever sadly, if nothing else the financial woes of O2 may eventually cause the plug to be pulled.

sillygoose

Herongull wrote: »

Ovivo is much cheaper for this.

Giffgaff 500mb Gigabag £5

Ovivo equivalent £0

For a tablet use (in which case the phone number doesn't really matter or other porting issues either) yes Ovivo is unbelievable, worth grabbing while it lasts. I would bet my dog that when the user base is big enough some charging starts to creep in, maybe a couple of quid to start with...

But whilst the sun is shining, make hay with it.

pepdavies

Giffgaff isn't perfect but I'm getting £86 payback next week. When O2 start offering that I'll switch

Emy1501

GRM wrote: »

I run two giffgaff accounts for my kids. For £10/month each they usually use 300+ texts, 150+ minutes and around 750MB. I get the convenience of auto goodybag renewal and auto top-ups without the possibility of bill shock from a lost phone.

Do any of the other mentioned MVNOs offer the same convenience for their usage levels at a significantly lower price?

Tescos do 500 mins 5k text and 1gb data for £10 and if you have two accounts you can increase mins by 150 mins each. 30 day contract.