Help please re SIM only deals

littlewren

I've been with EE on contract for my mobile for 4 years in a week's time and for financial reasons I need to change to a SIM only deal and keep my current phone.

I would like to either be with EE, Virgin Mobile or O2. Looking at EE's website just now, their 2GB SIM only deal is £16.19, yet the 2GB SIM deal with Virgin Mobile is £9. I haven't checked O2 yet as I believe they will be expensive. EE offers unlimited minutes but I don't need this.

Am I missing something? Why is Virgin Mobile's deal so much cheaper? I should say that I don't know anything about SIM only deals :eek:

Also, what are the negatives of having a SIM only monthly deal?

Could someone possibly help please?

TIA

As a P.S. I need to cancel my contract with EE but I can't ring them at the moment as I have bad laryngitis and therefore can't speak on the phone, which is a nuisance.

DCFC79

Go with Virgin mobile, for £9 it's not bad, if the EE is the best in your area then go for it.

As far as I know there are no negatives of a SIM only deal.

You could try the chat option or send your cancellation in writing.

AndyPK

SIM only are great.

EE are a main provider and charge more.

If your phone is locked it won't work with 02.

What I would do before you sign up, is ring EE and ask for your PAC (to be able to take your number with you) and tell them they are too expensive (and need to cut costs) and that virgin can do X for £x.

I'm sure they will offer you a good deal to stay.

P.S I've been with virgin sim only for 4 years.

daindian

Ee r doing 16gb for 16 pounds for existing customers so no idea where you were looking!

d123

littlewren wrote: »

I've been with EE on contract for my mobile for 4 years in a week's time and for financial reasons I need to change to a SIM only deal and keep my current phone.

I would like to either be with EE, Virgin Mobile or O2. Looking at EE's website just now, their 2GB SIM only deal is £16.19, yet the 2GB SIM deal with Virgin Mobile is £9. I haven't checked O2 yet as I believe they will be expensive. EE offers unlimited minutes but I don't need this.

Ring up to get your PAC (when you can speak again) and tell them you intend moving to the Virgin deal unless they'll match it, they will either do so or offer something else, depending on your customer worth.

If they don't offer something you're happy with, end the call and wait for their outbound retentions to call you (usually within a week), they'll normally offer the best retention deal.

littlewren wrote: »

Also, what are the negatives of having a SIM only monthly deal?

You don't get a new phone

mije1983

daindian wrote: »

Ee r doing 16gb for 16 pounds for existing customers so no idea where you were looking!

Maybe you could actually help the OP out and link them to the deal you mention? Clearly the OP hasn't seen that deal so it would have actually made your post helpful instead of what it actually was.....

However, given they appear to be looking at 2GB deals, then 16GB would be overkill and a waste of money.

littlewren

DCFC79 wrote: »

Go with Virgin mobile, for £9 it's not bad, if the EE is the best in your area then go for it.

As far as I know there are no negatives of a SIM only deal.

You could try the chat option or send your cancellation in writing.

Thank you for your reply. The EE price was just found by looking at their website, I don't know if I could get a better deal by phoning, but of course I can't at the moment. I didn't know that I could cancel in writing, so that's very helpful.

littlewren

AndyPK wrote: »

SIM only are great.

EE are a main provider and charge more.

If your phone is locked it won't work with 02.

What I would do before you sign up, is ring EE and ask for your PAC (to be able to take your number with you) and tell them they are too expensive (and need to cut costs) and that virgin can do X for £x.

I'm sure they will offer you a good deal to stay.

P.S I've been with virgin sim only for 4 years.

Ah I see, I didn't know that was why they charged more, thank you.

The only trouble with ringing EE is that I've got to wait until this laryngitis goes. At the moment I sound like a cross between Darth Vader & a dirty old man when I try to speak! :rotfl:

littlewren

daindian wrote: »

Ee r doing 16gb for 16 pounds for existing customers so no idea where you were looking!

I've just found £16.89 for 12gb but not the one you mention, but that's way too much for me. Not that I would turn down 16gb but I might as well try and get a better deal for 2gb, which is ample as I use wifi most of the time on my phone.

littlewren

d123 wrote: »

Ring up to get your PAC (when you can speak again) and tell them you intend moving to the Virgin deal unless they'll match it, they will either do so or offer something else, depending on your customer worth.

If they don't offer something you're happy with, end the call and wait for their outbound retentions to call you (usually within a week), they'll normally offer the best retention deal.



You don't get a new phone

I will definitely do that, thank you, once I can speak properly again lol

Yes, I was looking forward to getting a new phone but touch wood, this one's still working ok (hope I haven't jinxed it now lol) so I might as well get a SIM only deal if there are no negatives.

DCFC79

If the phone is working fine then get a sim only deal, whatever you do get whatever sim is suitable for you.

Yes writing to EE is an alternative if your not fit for talking on a phone.

Ask for your PAC code.