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But I recently got a Three SIM with unlimited minutes/texts and 4GB data for £9 a month (on a 12-month contract). Using Quidco for £30 cashback, it's effectively £6.50 a month for the first year.
So people are effectively "losing" their old telephone numbers by joining Plusnet. You can read all about it on the public forums at Plusnet (google: 'plunet mobile number port').
It was definitely available the week before the article was published -- that's when I ordered.
The equivalent plan has gone from £9 to £17 a month! But now you get three months free, so effectively £12.75 a month. With the current £50 Quidco cashback, that becomes an effective £8.58 a month.
So it would still be cheaper. And with unlimited minutes.
I have been waiting 4 days, so no-one who has my old number can call me. I was told yesterday that it would complete by midnight last night, today I am told they can't tell me when it will complete.
Whatever time of day or night I call customer services I get "we are experiencing a high number of calls at the moment".
Beginning to regret leaving Tesco Mobile.
Google "plusnet, mobile, porting" and you see a link to the plusnet community forum.... where there are a lot of very angry people.
They only launched this month and clearly can't cope.
I did complain on Facebook, and Customer Services said they would compensate me when it was complete, but not what that compensation would be. We shall see.
They've just been over subscribed I think due to the very good offers, in fact you can probably blame MSE in part for recommending it so heavily.
I had an idea in my head that they can only port so many numbers a day but I can't find anything to confirm or deny that so perhaps I imagined it.
As for the previous poster claiming that it's a 'con' I'm afraid that just comes across as childish, I have this picture in my head of him screaming and screaming until he's sick.
Oh, it's on 3UK.