Advice for elderly relative please

tonygold

My 91 year old MiL cannot get on with the Moto mobile we got her last year (that has a Smarty SIM in it), and wants to go back to her old Doro 621 phone that was locked to 02 PAYG.

As it was a while ago that sim is deactivated. I understand as well as 02 that Tesco and Giff Gaff sims should work in this handset? What is the best value PAYG SIM pls that would work in this handset? She doesn't need data so the lowest price one will do and we can ensure that a call or text is made every so often to keep the SIM active.

Many thanks for advice.

Neil_Jones

Well if the phone is locked to o2 either research on whether its possible to unlock (not all phones can be unlocked) or obtain a o2 SIM.  They do still do PAYG, albeit not at the dirt cheap rate it used to be, so that may be the easiest solution (or any other SIM from a network that piggybacks onto o2 should work as well)

tonygold

Neil_Jones said:

Well if the phone is locked to o2 either research on whether its possible to unlock (not all phones can be unlocked) or obtain a o2 SIM.  They do still do PAYG, albeit not at the dirt cheap rate it used to be, so that may be the easiest solution (or any other SIM from a network that piggybacks onto o2 should work as well)

Thanks Neil. Have found that giffgaff should work in an o2 phone so have ordered a free payg sim from them. Only needs a £10 topup and a use every 6 months to keep sim active I believe. 

getmore4less

O2 classic SIM off eBay, still some around for 20p. 
It's a 321 tariff
I got 2 for 20p delivered not tried them yet. 

Threads on HUKD  and here.

Farway

getmore4less said:

O2 classic SIM off eBay, still some around for 20p. 
It's a 321 tariff
I got 2 for 20p delivered not tried them yet. 

Threads on HUKD  and here.

Agree, I bought the old 123 O2 Classic PAYG for 20p a fortnight ago, on eBay free P & P, which came !st class post, no idea how they make any money but that's what happened

You have to top up by a voucher form local corner shop, the online O2 has problems for some

Qew

Farway said:

getmore4less said:

O2 classic SIM off eBay, still some around for 20p. 
It's a 321 tariff
I got 2 for 20p delivered not tried them yet. 

Threads on HUKD  and here.

Agree, I bought the old 123 O2 Classic PAYG for 20p a fortnight ago, on eBay free P & P, which came !st class post, no idea how they make any money but that's what happened

You have to top up by a voucher form local corner shop, the online O2 has problems for some

They make money because they get a cut of the top-up you add to the account. I'm not sure how long that lasts, but it seems enough for them to sell the SIMs at an apparent initial loss.

Didn't have a problem with my wife's O2 321 SIM topping up online. It'd be worth trying online first to see if that's the case, then pop down the shops if it doesn't work out.

Farway

Qew said:

Farway said:

getmore4less said:

O2 classic SIM off eBay, still some around for 20p. 
It's a 321 tariff
I got 2 for 20p delivered not tried them yet. 

Threads on HUKD  and here.

Agree, I bought the old 123 O2 Classic PAYG for 20p a fortnight ago, on eBay free P & P, which came !st class post, no idea how they make any money but that's what happened

You have to top up by a voucher form local corner shop, the online O2 has problems for some

They make money because they get a cut of the top-up you add to the account. I'm not sure how long that lasts, but it seems enough for them to sell the SIMs at an apparent initial loss.

Ahh, thanks for the explanation, must be a nice cut then taking into account the first class post as well, good luck to them

macman

Why not just unlock the Doro? Plenty of unlock codes going on ebay from 99p upwards.

ivinsp

Apologies if this has been mentioned and I've missed it but don't forget to get a PAC from Smarty to keep her number, text PAC to 65075 

tonygold

ivinsp said:

Apologies if this has been mentioned and I've missed it but don't forget to get a PAC from Smarty to keep her number, text PAC to 65075 

thanks. we didn't get a PAC. tbh she has very few phone contacts so we just got a new random number.