best iphone 5s payg sim please

balletshoes

our household is about to be graced by an iphone 5s shortly, it will be bought outright from the Apple store, so now I'm looking around for the best SIM.

I see T-mobile (we have one phone on this network at the moment, it works well) has a rolling one-month contract for £13, which gives 1gb data, unlimited texts, and 500 minutes.

The iphone will be set to look for wifi and home wifi of course, not to automatically sync or update (and I'll make sure its both sim and phone locked).

Is there a better deal out there for a payg sim for the iphone?

I don't want a contract, but don't mind a 12-month payg deal (if thats the right terminology?)

POPCORN

3's 3 2 1 sim may be worth looking at.

neil40

Giffgaff.
£10 per month for 500 mins/unlimited texts/1gb of data.
£12 per month for 250 mins/unlimited texts/unlimited data
No contract payg bundles.Runs on o2 network

balletshoes

POPCORN wrote: »

3's 3 2 1 sim may be worth looking at.

i don't think that would work well - i think the phone will mostly be used for data, however the 3 plan at £12.90 looks good with all-you-can-eat-data - what does this mean in real life?

balletshoes

neil40 wrote: »

Giffgaff.
£10 per month for 500 mins/unlimited texts/1gb of data.
£12 per month for 250 mins/unlimited texts/unlimited data
No contract payg bundles.Runs on o2 network

thats really good, i'll have to look into that, thanks.

grumbler

balletshoes wrote: »

I see T-mobile (we have one phone on this network at the moment, it works well) has a rolling one-month contract for £13, which gives 1gb data, unlimited texts, and 500 minutes.
...
Is there a better deal out there for a payg sim for the iphone?...

Define 'better'.
If you insist on 1Gb, the same deal is 1x£11 or just 12x£8.80 at ChitterChatter or 1x£10 at Giffgaff.

Cheaper deals can be found for 500Mb that can be sufficient with correct settings, depending on the actual usage.

I don't want a contract, but don't mind a 12-month payg deal (if thats the right terminology?)

No, it isn't. PAYG can't be a 12-month deal. Only a contract can.

baby_frogmella

Currently t mobile are offering unlimited calls/texts/data for £16 pm on a 12 month contract...usual price £26 pm. You'll need to call them up to get this deal which they offered me a few days agohttp://www.t-mobile.co.uk/shop/sim-only/plans/

DUTR

balletshoes wrote: »

our household is about to be graced by an iphone 5s shortly, it will be bought outright from the Apple store, so now I'm looking around for the best SIM.

I see T-mobile (we have one phone on this network at the moment, it works well) has a rolling one-month contract for £13, which gives 1gb data, unlimited texts, and 500 minutes.

The iphone will be set to look for wifi and home wifi of course, not to automatically sync or update (and I'll make sure its both sim and phone locked).

Is there a better deal out there for a payg sim for the iphone?

I don't want a contract, but don't mind a 12-month payg deal (if thats the right terminology?)

Have you looked at tesco mobile sim only deals?

balletshoes

I don't think 500mb will be enough to be honest - I occasionally go over that on my android phone.

balletshoes

DUTR wrote: »

Have you looked at tesco mobile sim only deals?

i'm not finding it easy to find a nano-sim payg sim on the tesco mobile site at all?

grumbler

baby_frogmella wrote: »

Currently t mobile are offering unlimited calls/texts/data for £16 pm on a 12 month contract...usual price £26 pm.

IIRC, Virgin offer the same for 1x£15.