Anyone who pays more than £20 per month for a contract is nuts!

jenniewb

Can't get my head around my sister who "upgraded" to an iPhone 6 (from a 5). She was haggling with 3 mobile after seeing a deal on Orange's website (or could have been EE) for £45 a month and 10gb internet with whatever calls/messages..etc. 3 offered her £43 for 8gb and unlimited texts and so many minutes...and what's worse is that she seemed genuinely really pleased with the new "deal"!
I'm just sitting down listening to the call she made (she put it on loud-speaker) and feeling bad about myself for raising my own bill from £10 to £15 because I needed a bit more data that month...

diamonds

bigfreddiel wrote: »

I don't know what Martin Lewis has, but I use a Nokia 1100, and I get through about £20/year.

Cheers fj

Martin has enough cash to set up a cooperative mobile and utilities as tax avoidance, I'm sure his mobile nor bill is in spirit of the forum mantra.

1100, not seen one of them for years

Peter333

bigfreddiel wrote: »

I've always thought that paying more than £20/month is madness.

Now Martin Lewis on his program on ITV tonight agrees.

So don't get sucked in by all the hype or what your mates say, just get a better deal, you can save money by buying your own phone and a payg sim, you just need to do a little bit of research.

Cheers fj

This is too much of a sweeping generalisation. You can't say that it's 'madness' if anyone pays more than £20 a month for a phone contract. It depends what you're getting for it, and how much you use your phone (and what for.) Paying any more than £20 a month would be crazy for me because I don't make more than £5 worth of texts on my mobile phone in a month, and only about two pounds worth of calls on it. SO PAYG is better for me, (and a cheap £10 phone!)

However, my daughter (who is at university,) pays £35 a month, and has a brand new iphone6 plus, which retails at around £500. In addition, she has unlimited texts, unlimited calls to landlines, unlimited calls to other mobiles, (no matter what provider,) unlimited internet (no crappy 4G limit!) and very cheap talk time from overseas, (I *think* it's 5p a minute,) with 200 free overseas texts a month. She has been abroad 5 times in 1.5 years, so this has come in very handy.

When she is at university, she calls us twice a week, (for 45 minutes to an hour,) and she calls her boyfriend as often as this too.

Also, most weeks she sends around 80-100 texts (to various people,) but some weeks, she sends 200 plus! And she makes lots of calls too some weeks.

In addition, she facetimes people, (or skypes them,) and uses the internet every day on her phone; sometimes for half hour a day, sometimes for 2-3 hours a day. AND she sometimes does a shedload of downloading! And she only ever pays that £35 a month.

There is no way any PAYG phone would provide all that for £35 a month - AND you would have to pay £500+ for the phone too!

We only get 100 free minutes to a mobile phone from our landline, and then it reverts to 15p a minute, so we're glad she has this package. Before she did, we were getting landline phone bills of £60-70 a month because of talking to her! Now she rings us.

Ian011

If that is a 24 month contract, your daughter is effectively paying £20 per month for the handset and £15 per month for calls, text and internet.

littlej0hn

So many people feel the need to upgrade or get a new phone simply because their contract has finished....I moved over to GiffGaff 2 and a half years ago after a 2 year contract finished. My 4 and a half year old iPhone 4s is still going strong! Goes to show you don't need replacing that often!

Currently paying £10...1Gb data, 500 Mins, unlimited text. Love the fact if you do run out it wont let you go over and you can start your next goodybag early.:j

diamonds

Tech has become so cheap you can get a great handset for £50-100, the networks prefer sim only because the subsidy on a handset is huge then the subsidy on your unlimited minutes or data. Contract is expensive as cheap as it has become.


iphone, rather My phone

I've started buying a good handset circa £250 max interest free over 12 months these days.

simax

As we're all willy-waving...

iPhone 6 Plus 64GB - £49 phone cost

Unlimited minutes
Unlimited texts
Unlimited EU Roaming
50GB data
1000 MMS
1000 084/087 minutes
1000 IDD minutes

£17.50/month. Total cost over 2 years = £469.

Not too shabby and miles cheaper than buying outright

Jiva

Where did you get that deal?

HappyMJ

Jiva wrote: »

Where did you get that deal?

It looks like a retention deal to me. Just a guess. Some retention deals are unbelievably cheap.

Cycrow

It depends on what you are actually getting for your money.

I paid £40/month for a previous contract. But i wouldn't call it madness. Especially as at the time the phone was only available on contract. And i needed that phone for a job. If i waited a few months for it to be available on sim only it would be to late for the job