Find a phone provider for my MIL Please!

mchale

knightstyle wrote: »

So can i buy a PAYG sim and use it to receive calls without putting any money on it ?

Check virgin mob, I'm sure they will receive incoming calls without top-up/registration.

System

You can bar outgoing calls using the mobile network with many phones this can be done via phone menus but the instruction code (*33*barringcode*11# then press call) may work.

diamonds

program the buttons^ to the phone number of your MIL home, thats what they are being paid for.

macman

Assuming an old 'dumb' phone with physical keypad, remove all programmed numbers from Contacts and then paint over or glue up the numbers so she can't dial out. Just leave the 'incoming call accept' button functioning.
Or you could just stop accepting her incoming calls at work and other unsuitable times?

J_B

grumbler wrote: »

What chargeable 'incoming' events are there except premium texts?

Sorry
Doesn't an incoming call to a mobile get charged to the caller? And the caller's provider then passes some of that payment to the receiving network.

I know that you keep telling me that I'm lucky to have had a Three PAYG phone without any credit on it for a number of years now, but it still works so I assume (a s s-u-me) that the incoming calls that it gets are being logged by Three as a chargeable event.
:huh:

grumbler

J_B wrote: »

Sorry
Doesn't an incoming call to a mobile get charged to the caller?

It does, but it doesn't count for the recipient for keeping the SIM alive. Giffgaff was the only network when incoming calls did count, but even they changed this.

Chargeable means that you have to be charged.

I know that you keep telling me that I'm lucky to have had a Three PAYG phone without any credit on it for a number of years now, but it still works so I assume (a s s-u-me) that the incoming calls that it gets are being logged by Three as a chargeable event.
:huh:

My Tesco sim got disconnected after about ~2 years despite regular calls to it.

knightstyle

OK, thanks for all the ideas, have suggested getting the Doro phone and not programing the buttons. As to a sim, peopl keep suggesting Virgin but when I contacted them they said that with a free PAYG you have to put a minimum of £10 to choose the package.

Atasas

http://www.ownfone.com

grumbler

Atasas wrote: »

http://www.ownfone.com

Rip off tariffs like £7.50 p.m. for 50 minutes or £10 PAYG valid for 2 month for 100 minutes.

http://www.ownfone.com/airtime-prices

And, I think, the SIM is impossible to change or doesn't even exist as numbers are programmed not in the handset.

diamonds

knightstyle wrote: »

OK, thanks for all the ideas, have suggested getting the Doro phone and not programing the buttons. As to a sim, peopl keep suggesting Virgin but when I contacted them they said that with a free PAYG you have to put a minimum of £10 to choose the package.

Thats for free texts or mins...

15p a text to any UK mobile
40p a minute to any UK mobile or landline (including voicemail)
£1 per day for 100MB within the UK on days that you access the internet from your phone. Any use above 100MB will be charged at £1 per 100MB thereafter