Cheapest Mobile Article Discussion

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3 are offering 500 anytime minutes for £13.50 pm plus free phone if you sign up to their Mix and Match 500 on an 18 month contract - additionally if you question on their messaging board you can get an extra £20 online voucher.

DKLS

After having a payg phone for years and topping up around £10 every 3 months, my business requirements need me to get a contract phone, I am after the HTC Hero or similarly specced smartphone, preferably on Orange, any ideas where to go for the best deal?, Ideally dont want to spend more than £35 a month.

gittel

Eearlier this year I lost my Nokia 6300 (bought in 2007) and the technology has moved on very significantly with Blackberry's, Iphones N95, N96 and goodness knows what else.

The insurers have assessed the replacement value of the phone as c £100 - excess + accessories etc so basically got c. £100+ to spend on a phone. I'm on a TMobile solo contract of £15 with 350 minutes and unlimited texts

I'd be willing to consider phones which cost more than my budget if its facilities are worth going for.

I'd welcome recommendations on what I should consider buying. Although I think my SOLO contract is a good deal, I am open to suggestions of other network providers save for 3 Mobile which has to be the worst of the worst.

gittel

3employee wrote: »

If your phone is 3G and unlocked then for £10 per month you can get Unlimited Text, Unlimited 3to3 calls, unlimited Skype and Windows live messenger (If it is a "3" handset where these services are available) plus 100minutes to landlines or x-network on a 30day contract.

If you don't have a handset thats compatible with 3 then you can get a Sony Ericsson G502, K660i or LG KF310 Free with Unlimited Text Messages and 75 minutes of calls per month for just £10 per month on an 18 month contract (this is the £15 Texter tariff reduced to £10 with these handsets)

Hope this helps and doesn't sound too much like a sales pitch ;-) ha ha ha

3 Mobile provides the worst customer sevice ever. Pre-sales lied, customer services lied, retentions lied and when I complained to the CEOs office, his staff in Glasgow also lied. I could write screeds about the hell they put me through and even a basic internet trawl will show that I'm not alone. From a quick skim of this forum, I think I even found a thread about 3 Mobile's abysmal customer service.

E_Razor

How do you get the virgin mobile contract?

stars_bright

I am currently with 3 but have had terrible customer servcies experiences with them and my contract is ending on 10th August. I have phoned them today and found out that I need to give them 30 days notice of leaving but as et I have not decided which is the best deal to go to. Can I give three the 30 days notice and then change my mind later if I don't find a better deal? I am thinking of the Virgin Liberty contract which is only £10 per month with a free phone and 200 mins and 200 txts per month on a monthly contract, this looks pretty good - has anyone got any experiences to report?

nicsonian

Personally I rate the pay as you go deals these days! They're often just as good as most contract deals. I use orange and text all the time. So for £30 per month on Dolphin I get unlimited texts and £30 worth of calls. I also get free internet access. Well recommended!

reallyjustme

I'm a high user. 1600 mins and 600 texts (no land line). Found me a great cashback offer - 60 quid more a year if I forget to claim (which I won't) compared to old deal but 60 quid cheaper than next best and if I do remember to claim (which I will - reminders in every diary (including my mum's and my phone) will slash bill by half!.
This was by far the best of the comparison sites
Thanks

salthegal

are these cashback deals worth going with? as theres some good deals on simple mobiles which I want, I dont get how they make there money or whether they are legit?

this site apparently compares the entire market

http://www.comparemobiledeals.com/show.asp?gift=12mfree&mins=50&showdeals=50

it shows good deals at buymobilephones anybody any experience on cashback with them as I've only used the main retailers before and dont want to get stung.

thanks

Sal:beer:

Manx_Cat

salthegal wrote: »

are these cashback deals worth going with? as theres some good deals on simple mobiles which I want, I dont get how they make there money or whether they are legit?

Yeah, there seem to be lots of complaints about cashback. I have five(yes four) contracts with O2 (two for my daughters, one for my son, one for my wife and one for me) and resent the amount I'm paying. 3mobile coverage seems c**p. Orange seems OK, but all the best deals seem to involve cashbacks.

There also seem to be lots of complaints about e2sure. Any views?

My elder daughter wants a Blackberry but wants to make sure internet doesn't cost her as fortune (she's a medical student so in hospitals all over the place so can't get home to log in), my younger daughter doesn't use much and I vary - when moving home, I was on 7 hours talk a month, now down to under two hours and around 150 texts.

Any advice