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Help please...
MisterNick
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Could somebody help us with sorting out our mobile phone contracts please, as the permutations and offers are totally confusing us.
Our current situation is
I have a company mobile. I have to return the phone and the number at the end of the August.
My wife has a contract with Flexphone, whereby she saved the NI and tax on the contract. This will come to an end in November. Her current phone is a Nokia 6260 and she is quite happy with it and wants to keep it. She currently pays £26.25 gross (£15.49 net) for 200 minutes anytime any network and 100 texts. She rarely gets anywhere near this level. She will be unable to renew at the net rate after 4/11 although Flexphone do seem to want to keep her as a customer.
My eldest son (15) has an 18 month contract with Orange that runs out in April next year. The contract is for £30 per month and includes our broadband. His phone is a Samsung D900 and he seems quite happy with the phone. Although he makes quite a few calls, he does not talk for long on each call and the text package is ok for him.
My youngest son (13) has PAYG. He will talk for ages on the phone if given the opportunity, but (luckily) he doesn’t receive many calls. I probably pay about £10 per month for top ups. It will come to a stage where he may start getting more calls. He has a Nokia 6280 (with a cracked screen) and would like a Nokia N95. He is quite gadgety.
I need a phone from the end of August. I am likely to be self employed and trying to estimate my usage is quite difficult as I think it will increase as time goes on. I do some texting although not a lot. Although I know nothing about how to do it, I may need to access to e-mails and the internet whilst away from the house, either from the phone or my laptop.
This is my current thinking;
We will reassess my wife’s package in November and try to reduce the package. If we can get a Nokia 95 and give it to my youngest then all well and good.
We will reassess my eldest sons package in April next year.
I will get a PAYG until my usage becomes clearer. I foresee that this will not resolve the internet access/email issue.
If I can get a cheap contract for my youngest I will do so, otherwise wait until November and see what can be done then. I have read the Nokia 95 thread in this forum, and although the cheapest deal on there may be OK, it doesn’t look as if it is available to everybody.
The help I require is;
Does my plan make sense, and who do I go to for the best deals.
Also, wuld be better packaging all the accounts up in some way?
I know it is not for this forum, but just in case it affects the above, our landline is with Pipex and we have the Everytime package. We pay £20-£30 per month in addition to the BT rental of £10.50 per quarter. We do seem to have quite a few 0870 numbers on the bills.
We are both Quidco members.
Our current situation is
I have a company mobile. I have to return the phone and the number at the end of the August.
My wife has a contract with Flexphone, whereby she saved the NI and tax on the contract. This will come to an end in November. Her current phone is a Nokia 6260 and she is quite happy with it and wants to keep it. She currently pays £26.25 gross (£15.49 net) for 200 minutes anytime any network and 100 texts. She rarely gets anywhere near this level. She will be unable to renew at the net rate after 4/11 although Flexphone do seem to want to keep her as a customer.
My eldest son (15) has an 18 month contract with Orange that runs out in April next year. The contract is for £30 per month and includes our broadband. His phone is a Samsung D900 and he seems quite happy with the phone. Although he makes quite a few calls, he does not talk for long on each call and the text package is ok for him.
My youngest son (13) has PAYG. He will talk for ages on the phone if given the opportunity, but (luckily) he doesn’t receive many calls. I probably pay about £10 per month for top ups. It will come to a stage where he may start getting more calls. He has a Nokia 6280 (with a cracked screen) and would like a Nokia N95. He is quite gadgety.
I need a phone from the end of August. I am likely to be self employed and trying to estimate my usage is quite difficult as I think it will increase as time goes on. I do some texting although not a lot. Although I know nothing about how to do it, I may need to access to e-mails and the internet whilst away from the house, either from the phone or my laptop.
This is my current thinking;
We will reassess my wife’s package in November and try to reduce the package. If we can get a Nokia 95 and give it to my youngest then all well and good.
We will reassess my eldest sons package in April next year.
I will get a PAYG until my usage becomes clearer. I foresee that this will not resolve the internet access/email issue.
If I can get a cheap contract for my youngest I will do so, otherwise wait until November and see what can be done then. I have read the Nokia 95 thread in this forum, and although the cheapest deal on there may be OK, it doesn’t look as if it is available to everybody.
The help I require is;
Does my plan make sense, and who do I go to for the best deals.
Also, wuld be better packaging all the accounts up in some way?
I know it is not for this forum, but just in case it affects the above, our landline is with Pipex and we have the Everytime package. We pay £20-£30 per month in addition to the BT rental of £10.50 per quarter. We do seem to have quite a few 0870 numbers on the bills.
We are both Quidco members.
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Comments
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Usually I am quite eloquent, but when reading a post like this I have to come down to the lowest common denominator and shout...
!!!!!!
Well life is harsh, hug me don't reject me.0 -
Hiya .. this is what I find we are up against as well, when we look at anything to do with phones - landlines as well as mobiles. It's easy to make a decision (sometimes!) when it's one person and one phone, but when I try to factor in more elements, then paralysis strikes, and I just throw up my hands in horror.
I'm not sure that any of the phone companies are interested in tailoring solutions - they just want to sell you what's on their 'sell it this week to make me most commission' list.
This is why so many people just plump for what they've already got - it's not really apathy, it's absolute 'rabbit caught in headlights' and brain just won't function
We've gone for individual solutions - there were no good offers for combining, but you could maybe keep a lookout?
My kids choose (and pay for) their own phones and contracts - one with high text usage picked a monthly Orange with hundreds of included texts, and the other with v low usage has an Orange payg.
Not sure that helps at all - but you're not alone, and if you find a great deal, please let us know!0
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