Which is the best/ cheapest PAYG service provider?

Magenta

I have been so disillusioned by 3 that I am abandoning it. Which of the other PAYG service providers are the cheapest/ best. I have sim cards for Orange, Vodaphone, T-mobile, O2 and Virgin? I have bought a new handset which has the Virgin card in it already. Thanks all.

pigeonpie

Brief thoughts - Tesco if you call the same 3 nos a lot. Or their Uk only basic (Extra?) tariff. 10p a min and 5p a min texts. They have the best rates for calling and texting Europe - 40p a minute and 20p to send a text.

If you're calling T Mobile a lot, their Mates rates is 5p a min and 5p a text. Virgin's only cheap for calling or texting Virgin nos but horrendous for other networks.
O2 etc are all more expensive AFAIK.

richardjames73

Orange speakeasy tariff with free text trigger top up gives you 15p a minute any network calls, and up too 1000 free texts a month. T mobile gives unlimited free evening and weekend texts, and 12p a minute any network calls. These are the two best value for money currently in my oppinion at the moment.

links below

http://shop.orange.co.uk/shop/show/offer/payasyougo_plans?WT.mc_id=ConMayHoUp%20_1330&WT.hplink=BHg

and

http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/eshop/personal/phones/phone-available-plans.do?allOnOnePage=false&bundleTypeGroup=0&currentPageNumber=0&manufacturerId=1003&menuId=handset.prepaid&mpc=300003015&paymentTypeId=0&sortOrderId=handsetList.sort.label.default

Magenta

Thanks both.

Richardjames, thinking now as I said I have just bought a new handset with a Virgin sim card in it already. I have not put the battery in it or anything, do you think that it is locked into Virgin? It is a Nokia1112 handset.

I have decided to go with T-mbile, so do I just take the Virgin sim card out and put the T-mobile one in???!!!!! Confusion reigns.

richardjames73

Some virgin phones are locked to just virgin. Unfortunately I dont know whether the Nokia 1112 is so locked.

virgo17

Magenta wrote: »

I have decided to go with T-mbile, so do I just take the Virgin sim card out and put the T-mobile one in???!!!!! Confusion reigns.

If your phone came in a Virgin branded box then it is most likely locked to Virgin. Also, Virgin normally lock to their own network which is a sub-set of T-Mobile. This generally means that although you can use a T-Mobile or Virgin SIM card in a T-Mobile locked phone, you cannot use a T-Mobile SIM card in a Virgin locked phone, only a Virgin SIM.

YMMV.


V.

doobiesis_2

The Orange one is Minimum topup of £30 amonth

Magenta

Thanks for all your help Richardjames. I will ask the question on the Nokia unlocking thread.

richardjames73

doobiesis wrote: »

The Orange one is Minimum topup of £30 amonth

£30 for 1000 texts
£20 for 600 texts
£10 for 300 texts.

Full details are on the link in the post.

Magenta

Thanks Virgo 17. The handset came in a Nokia box.( It is just a basic phone. I have had my expensive phones stolen! and the one I bought after, a Motorola, fell to pieces under guarantee and they will not replace it!! Another story!!!)

doobiesis_2

What do you do most with your phone? Text Talk or Wap??