Best Sim-only Deals guide Discussion

Donegal_Paul

JDE-UK said:

I don't know if anyone's seen, but the £10 Voxi deal has gone from 8GB of data to 12GB, so looking like a better offer now. Runs until 25th June.

Yes I was looking at doing this via the referrer link for the amazon vouchers, problem is Im on vodaphone so they wont do it :-(

brookhouse

Donegal_Paul said:

JDE-UK said:

I don't know if anyone's seen, but the £10 Voxi deal has gone from 8GB of data to 12GB, so looking like a better offer now. Runs until 25th June.

Yes I was looking at doing this via the referrer link for the amazon vouchers, problem is Im on vodaphone so they wont do it :-(

I think it's probably one of the best offers around £10 at the moment.
Do you have a referral from a friend? Do they spot you are porting your number from Vodafone withhold the voucher then?
You could port to Lebara for a month and then to Voxi!

BML

I am not very technical. In fact it took me half an hour to discover how to ask this question so please bear with me.
I bought my first Smart Phone a year or so ago with a free giff gaff sim card and I paid £8 a month for this. I built up £40 and could not discover how I got it back. In fact I found giff gaff impossible to contact so I stopped payment of the £8 a month until the £40 ran out.
MY phone is now dead and I am now looking for a replacement free sim card deal.
I am hard of hearing so avoid  making phone calls apart than to my children. I mostly keep my surfing the net to my computer or the smart phone when in contact with my home computer WI Fi so not a very passionate smart phone arrangement. 
Would anyone care to make a suggestion as to which sim card deal would suit me?
Many thanks  

brookhouse

BML said:

I am not very technical. In fact it took me half an hour to discover how to ask this question so please bear with me.
I bought my first Smart Phone a year or so ago with a free giff gaff sim card and I paid £8 a month for this. I built up £40 and could not discover how I got it back. In fact I found giff gaff impossible to contact so I stopped payment of the £8 a month until the £40 ran out.
MY phone is now dead and I am now looking for a replacement free sim card deal.
I am hard of hearing so avoid  making phone calls apart than to my children. I mostly keep my surfing the net to my computer or the smart phone when in contact with my home computer WI Fi so not a very passionate smart phone arrangement. 
Would anyone care to make a suggestion as to which sim card deal would suit me?
Many thanks  

Maybe get a Lebara SIM for £4 a month or TalkMobile for £5 a month. Both will give you "data" that you can use when you are out and about (away from WiFi). (Both user Vodafone network so check the signal coverage works for you.) You can use GiffGaff on a different basis - don't buy the GoodyBag, just load some money for credit.It's more expensive per call and amount of data used, but cheaper in the long run.

BML

Many many thanks for that it looks like its worth a try. 

PixelPound

Fat_Lilz said:

I wanted to draw to your attention a flaw in the Smarty SIM-only deal that was recommended by MSE. It was the £10/month for 30GB data option. I bought this, and then found out that the 'no frills' approach means that you cannot send or receive 'premium rate' text messages. This would be fine, expect that also includes verification texts sent from your bank, which are very important. It doesn't make this clear anywhere, so just be wary. I am going to switch network providers after less than a month with Smarty. Thank goodness it is only a one-month contract.

Well I'm on Smarty and receive verification texts from my bank and credit cards fine. For premium messages you would obviously need to put some credit on your account - smarty is a PAYG so you need credit for those. I don't have any credit on, which is a bonus because I don't receive spam premium texts that cost me, but as stated I do receive bank texts like one-time pass codes without hitch.

PixelPound

smithac said:

I recently moved my mobile number to Smarty, which was an MSE best sim-only deal, and after going through that pain, found that Smarty mobiles can't receive security verification codes from my bank, the Nationwide, which are used to authorise payments, etc. via sms message. Anyone heard of this before? I need to switch to a provider that does support them - how can I tell which providers do?

I'm on Smarty and bank with Nationwide. I get one-time security verification codes from them fine, as well as other texts they have (like balance etc). So it sounds like a setting problem - have you checked you have given Nationwide the right mobile number?

Curls2208

https://www.fonehouse.co.uk/best-sim-only-deals

The vodafone deal on here is pretty incredible. I wonder why MSE hasn't it listed, they have the EE but the vodafone is better

brookhouse

Curls2208 said:

https://www.fonehouse.co.uk/best-sim-only-deals

The vodafone deal on here is pretty incredible. I wonder why MSE hasn't it listed, they have the EE but the vodafone is better

Wondering why you think that? EE and Vodafone always seem way more pricey than Three, Smarty etc. unless there is something about the premium brand that you want?

Curls2208

£8 a month (obviously having to sort cashback) for 100gb of tetherable data, and a network that works. I recently joined 3 and it was god awful, useless useless no signal anywhere. 

I had an unlimited data deal for £8 a month, so admittedly, slightly better, but 100gb is pretty much unlimited in my eyes anyway.  I was dual simming it with my Vodafone sim, and in places on Vodafone where I could get 4G, on 3 I was getting E or H.