cheap PAYG

Kernel_Sanders

macman wrote: »

OP intends to use the phone for incoming emergency calls only, so the very expensive EE per minute PAYG rates will not be a factor.

But why restrict yourself when it costs nothing to install Delight, meaning you could still call other Delight SIMS for free if ever needed.

eDicky wrote: »

Delight Mobile.... order a free SIM each, put them in your old handsets, and you can even call and text each other for free without even topping up.

For how long can you sustain that? Does there have to be a chargeable event before 6 months have passed?

macman

Agree with you in principle, but the OP appears to have ignored all the advice given above about more suitable alternatives.

Ypaymore

macman wrote: »

OP intends to use the phone for incoming emergency calls only, so the very expensive EE per minute PAYG rates will not be a factor.

If they miss an incoming call. The £5 could soon get used up.

Voicemail on EE Payg 30p a minute.

http://ee.co.uk/content/dam/ee-help/...AYG_030914.pdf

Delight Mobile. Just 5p.

eDicky

Kernel_Sanders wrote: »

For how long can you sustain that? Does there have to be a chargeable event before 6 months have passed?

I can't be sure but I suspect that if you never top up, it will never expire. With Lebara it's like that, I have their SIM in an old phone that I've never topped up, keep it in my car for spare and places where there's only Vodafone signal. They give a few free megabytes per day, enough for checking email etc, it's been going for two or three years already.

I think that an un-topped up Delight can receive calls from other networks, because it must be active in order to receive calls from other Delight SIMs. But I can't be sure, I didn't try mine before topping up, maybe I should order another and try these things.

Although Delight runs on EE, it may not work in a locked EE handset because of network code mismatch. Another thing I can't try because I never have locked handsets.

Anyway OP ordered a standard(?) EE SIM and disappeared.