ASDA Mobile Ditches Vodafone for EE

cashbag

I just checked my phone settings - a Nokia 1208.

All my contacts are stored on the SIM - it seems to add them this way as the default setting - but I have an option to COPY them to/from the phone either one by one or en-masse. I also have the option to keep the originals or delete them. So I assume if I copy them to the phone before putting in a new SIM I can then copy them back down to the new SIM (if I want to). Just had a play & opted to keep the originals, so now they are all listed twice. As this is a very basic phone some 4 years old then am sure most should do the same.

brivw

cashbag wrote: »

Yay!! People Power wins a victory. The following has now been added to the ASDA website when you click through from the news about EE on the "Existing Customer" link.

Thank you to Moneybox!

Unfortunately this is not such a victory. We are in the process of transferring my mothers service over to the new network and have been told that the only way to get a refund of remaining credit is to let her existing number expire at the end of April, then they will refund her credit but her existing number will be lost. If you port the existing number anytime before expiry of the existing service then you will loose any existing credit.

Steve059

Use up your credit before 30 April, then switch networks and "port" your number.

cashbag

I use my phone so rarely that keeping my number is not an issue as only perhaps a dozen people at most actually know it. I realise that it is important for many people to retain their number, but am just giving personal circumstances. After all I have had to change landline numbers every time I have moved house & email addresses several times due to mergers/change of ISP etc.

So I am going to continue using my remaining PAYG credit (now down to £19 since this thread started) until mid April & then donate anything left to charity - rather than give it gratis to Wal-Mart! I will either decide whether to lose the number, retain it by porting it over to ASDA EE or possibly to a new provider (currently looking at Three as coverage where I am is slightly better). Or I will stay with ASDA with whatever the number is on the EE SIM card they sent me.

Farway

cashbag wrote: »

So I am going to continue using my remaining PAYG credit (now down to £19 since this thread started) until mid April & then donate anything left to charity - rather than give it gratis to Wal-Mart! .

Your choice about gifting to charity of course, but Asda have said they will issue credit note to spend in store for unused credit on SIM

This was only after a lot of bad publicity & flak going their way, not from goodness of their cold money grabbing heart

PS, I am in much same position as cashbag, number is not important to me, and also looking at 3 for cost

cashbag

If I wanted to keep my number (rather than lose it as brivw in post ~103 indicates) I would give any balance to charity & port the number before it expired, rather than let Wal-Mart profit. Or I might just let the number expire & claim my credit & start over with a new number. I have a couple of charities whose collecting boxes I donate to so donating by text just means I keep that cash in my purse.

Downside with Three is you have to have a 3G phone, which mine is not - so I have to consider buying a new phone. Which means I end up spending a lot more than if I stuck with the new ASDA service, either with my old number or with a new one. Grr!


Wow! I spent nearly £3 on calls/texts since October - a bit extravagent! Dont suppose any phone provider wants a customer like me!

Farway

cashbag wrote: »

If I wanted to keep my number (rather than lose it as brivw in post ~103 indicates) I would give any balance to charity & port the number before it expired, rather than let Wal-Mart profit. Or I might just let the number expire & claim my credit & start over with a new number. I have a couple of charities whose collecting boxes I donate to so donating by text just means I keep that cash in my purse.

Downside with Three is you have to have a 3G phone, which mine is not - so I have to consider buying a new phone. Which means I end up spending a lot more than if I stuck with the new ASDA service, either with my old number or with a new one. Grr!


Wow! I spent nearly £3 on calls/texts since October - a bit extravagent! Dont suppose any phone provider wants a customer like me!

I may corrected, but you do not need a 3G phone, a 2G will do if you do not want data, which I do not

Silk

Farway wrote: »

I may corrected, but you do not need a 3G phone, a 2G will do if you do not want data, which I do not

I thought a lot of Three's 2G got turned off leaving the 2G service a lot more restricted ...as in http://kenstechtips.com/index.php/three-begins-2g-coverage-switch-off-have-you-been-affected-your-rights#Who_is_affected_by_the_2G_switch-off

cashbag

I asked in a Three shop & they said their SIM will be no good in my old phone. There is a Nokia which is the cheapest model that will work - costs £29.99 + £10 credit to buy over counter. If I stick with ASDA I will have to put some credit on old phone when it becomes EE, but will not be spending the £29.99 which, in terms of my phone usage pattern in past 14 years, represents maybe 6 years worth of calls!


Still have until end of April to research all the options.

cashbag

Woo! Hoo! My car broke down the other day, so managed to use up some surplus ASDA credit sorting it out. Every cloud as they say . . . This is just what I (& many others) keep a mobile for. The thought that I might have been in the middle of moving over to EE with ASDA & been without service, as others have been reporting, has convinced me to go elswhere - probably to Three - especially as I have now acquired a compatible 3G phone that a friend was disposing of.