Best network for Pay as you go or monthly

aayush

Hi
Can anyone advise re the above as need to get a sim only for my son

Need some data not many mins text as will only be used for emergency calls

Await your response

Inner_Zone

aayush wrote: »

Hi
Can anyone advise re the above as need to get a sim only for my son

Need some data not many mins text as will only be used for emergency calls

Await your response

There is a echo here.


https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6087592/horstmann-electric-7

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6038795/looking-for-spy-item-which-record-convsations-with-out-wifi


Why don't you ever search for yourself.


You are always asking others to do it for you.



Question comes up regularly anyway.

JJ_Egan

Depends upon what networks have poor signal in areas phone required .

wakeupalarm

aayush wrote: »

Hi
Best network for Pay as you go or monthly

That's rather a broad question your basically asking which is the best network full stop.

EE

Cisco001

Voxi or Smarty.

I don't recommend SIMO as there is possibility of large bill if user ignore warning text on data usage.

Browntoa

Totally dependent on personal circumstances

Best coverage where you live and work

Best price for the amount of data and calls you want.

Depends if you want 4g or 5g

Depends on if you want a bundled mobile phone.

And so on.

It's an open ended "how long is a piece of string" question without answer.

mobilejunkie

Cisco001 wrote: »

Voxi or Smarty.

I don't recommend SIMO as there is possibility of large bill if user ignore warning text on data usage.

My contracts either make a profit or cost about £3.50 a month (though actually a lot less than that for other reasons). They come with a phone which I always sell and often get cashback for ordering via a cashback site. They have unlimted minutes and texts. The last one came with a phone I sold for £180 (sale costs free), TCB of £42.50, 4GB (in addition to the unlimed minutes/texs), monthly net cost after cashback ignoring the TCB cashback) of £3.50 per month and other savings. That was an exceptional phone, but not an exceptional deal and even with a much lesser phone it should practically break even.

Why would anyone pay for either a sim free or PAYG? Of course, these are cashback contracts so the upfront cost is £20 per month, but I've been feeding off them for years for limited effort (you do have to know what you're doing and if the dealer goes bust you'll lose outstanding claims, but that is relatively rare and made up for by the normal outcome). There's nearly always a small RPI increase after a year too - but I can swallow that under the circumstances.

Never made sense to me why people do anything different.

Cisco001

mobilejunkie wrote: »

My contracts either make a profit or cost about £3.50 a month (though actually a lot less than that for other reasons). They come with a phone which I always sell and often get cashback for ordering via a cashback site. They have unlimted minutes and texts. The last one came with a phone I sold for £180 (sale costs free), TCB of £42.50, 4GB (in addition to the unlimed minutes/texs), monthly net cost after cashback ignoring the TCB cashback) of £3.50 per month and other savings. That was an exceptional phone, but not an exceptional deal and even with a much lesser phone it should practically break even.

Why would anyone pay for either a sim free or PAYG? Of course, these are cashback contracts so the upfront cost is £20 per month, but I've been feeding off them for years for limited effort (you do have to know what you're doing and if the dealer goes bust you'll lose outstanding claims, but that is relatively rare and made up for by the normal outcome). There's nearly always a small RPI increase after a year too - but I can swallow that under the circumstances.

Never made sense to me why people do anything different.

Every so often, you will see a thread saying mobile company charging for hundreds or thousands because his/ her teenage son/ daughter ignore warning text from mobile company.

You could budget £10 a month for Smarty/ Voxi/ Giffgaff to avoid that.

So, the question is would you take the risk of saving £6.50 per month and trust your son/ daughter not using over the limit and end up landing with a bill of hundreds.

ballyblack

Tesco Mobile has a Safety Buffer you can set easily in the App. Starts at £2.50

plan starts at £7.50 for 2GB

https://www.tescomobile.com/shop/sim-only-deals/sim-only-contracts


so if you go over? the most you spend is £10 with the buffer ON




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Farway

Cisco001 wrote: »

Every so often, you will see a thread saying mobile company charging for hundreds or thousands because his/ her teenage son/ daughter ignore warning text from mobile company.

You could budget £10 a month for Smarty/ Voxi/ Giffgaff to avoid that.

So, the question is would you take the risk of saving £6.50 per month and trust your son/ daughter not using over the limit and end up landing with a bill of hundreds.

Given it's presumably a teenager, go for Voxi, tenner a month, with added plus of social media stuff like FB or whatever does not count towards the data usage

mobilejunkie

Cisco001 wrote: »

Every so often, you will see a thread saying mobile company charging for hundreds or thousands because his/ her teenage son/ daughter ignore warning text from mobile company.

You could budget £10 a month for Smarty/ Voxi/ Giffgaff to avoid that.

So, the question is would you take the risk of saving £6.50 per month and trust your son/ daughter not using over the limit and end up landing with a bill of hundreds.

No risk. As soon as the package arrives I put a lock on the sim, sell the phone and place a zero out of bundle limit on my contract. That's even though in almost a decade and a half of doing these deals I've never had out of bundle costs and when cashback contracts were at their peak had up to 11 running simultaneously (as well as watching over as many for several other people).

I haven't just "saved" £6 a month; I've made a LOT on my contracts i.e. they pay me, not the other way round. That's ignoring having to use a land line in the good old days, which would have run up additional costs (cashback contracts used to have only about 250 minutes each in those days).