Trapped in a mobile contract for another year that can't give me what I need :(

Alybea

Would it be any cheaper to buy a cheap laptop? Google Chrome books are £200 and get a landline and broadband? or a 3g dongle?
In the interests of saving money a satnav with the sound switched off might save you a bucketload of data?
Have you spoken to your phone provider to ask how much data they can give you on a contract?

Just throwing ideas out there...

dealer_wins

Why not get an AA road map for about £5. We all managed with one 10 years ago?

DUTR

dealer_wins wrote: »

Why not get an AA road map for about £5. We all managed with one 10 years ago?

In post #7 the Op included "I cannot stand sat navs, I use a paper map for the majority and my phone for what isn't on the map."

I agree we managed without maps, nowadays though, looking at a map whilst driving may attract the wrong sort of attention, and we don't really want to be distracted away from looking at the roads.

Bingolingo

Download Onavo from the App Store. It installs a profile on your iphone which compresses the data your phone receives. You could also use Opera instead of Safari as your browser because it compresses data too.

gjchester

jodilye wrote: »

I don't have a home pc, my phone is my computer.

What are you doing with the phone, why can't you get a phone line, I guess you were in the Wi-Fi at your prior home, but if we know what you were using it for it might give us an idea of usage.

Even the "unlimited" plans have a fair usage caps on them, and if your using 2GB of data most plans have a fair use cap of around 5GB. Changing providers may not be the answer.

jodilye wrote: »

Really I was hoping there were companies that would sell me a new contract with cashback to help pay off this contract, as I have had friends do similar things. I think I'm most likely just being damned awkward and I'll have to suck it up and either pay more or browse less!

There are but the cashback needs to come from somewhere, any plan with a gift or cashback generally isn't great value.

For example BuyMobilePhones.net will do a £330 cash back on a Galaxy Ace, on Three with unlimited data and 500 or 1000 minutes, at £38 a month. However that same plan is £16 direct from Three on sim only, the phone is certainly not worth £530, (Expansys list it at £150 sim free) so your really just getting your own cash back.

Bingolingo

gjchester wrote: »

Even the "unlimited" plans have a fair usage caps on them, and if your using 2GB of data most plans have a fair use cap of around 5GB. Changing providers may not be the answer.

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Which unlimited plans are you talking about? The ones that I can think of (full minty and 3) don't have 5gb limits.

gjchester

Bingolingo wrote: »

Which unlimited plans are you talking about? The ones that I can think of (full minty and 3) don't have 5gb limits.

That's why I said most....

Bingolingo

gjchester wrote: »

That's why I said most....

? Like????

gjchester

Bingolingo wrote: »

? Like????

Misremembered it was 3.5GB on Virgins "unlimited" Big Data tariff which download over 3 1/2 GB and then your throttled. It also excludes tethering

http://www.virginmobile.com/vm/genericContent.do?contentId=our.service.footer.sm068#Virgin%20Media%20Mobile%20Acceptable%20Use%20Policy%20%20Pay%20As%20You%20Go


For customers on the Big Data & Texts tariff excessive use over 3.5GB of data per calendar month will result in their maximum bandwidth being restricted to 3G speeds (384kbit/s downstream, 200kbit/s upstream) on our network between midday and midnight

time2save

DUTR wrote: »

I think it's time you spent to save then, you can get mapping apps that don't use data.

Sorry to hijack thread OP, how do you get apps which don't use data?