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30-Day Rolling SIM only deal .. How do I leave ?

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  • nottsphil
    nottsphil Posts: 682 Forumite
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    edited 22 October 2022 at 7:18PM
    OK well let me give a real-life example to help me understand. I'm in the second year of a 12-month contract with ID of unlimited calls/texts and 100GB per month, which is now not enough. I was going to wait until Black Friday (25 November) but won't make it to the end of this month (27th) as I only have a handful of GBs left. If I take ID's offer of 200GB/1 month contract as an interim measure, maybe tomorrow, are you saying that I could then leave ID on Black Friday weekend without notice or penalty? If so, would this still apply if the one month deal I get is with a different provider?
  • tinker411
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    edited 23 October 2022 at 1:34AM
    nottsphil said:
    OK well let me give a real-life example to help me understand. I'm in the second year of a 12-month contract with ID of unlimited calls/texts and 100GB per month, which is now not enough. I was going to wait until Black Friday (25 November) but won't make it to the end of this month (27th) as I only have a handful of GBs left. If I take ID's offer of 200GB/1 month contract as an interim measure, maybe tomorrow, are you saying that I could then leave ID on Black Friday weekend without notice or penalty? If so, would this still apply if the one month deal I get is with a different provider?

    Hmm, well, putting aside the fact you're apparently not interested in doing a price plan change on your existing iD sim (which may be the easiest option as Royal Mail are on strike again this Tuesday as things stand so a new sim would likely be delayed) in direct answer to your question:
    Yes, if you signed up to iD (or whoever) tomorrow on a 1 month deal then got a better deal next month on Black Friday weekend, you could leave the new iD (or whoever) sim and go elsewhere without additional notice or penalty (as your minimum term will have just about passed by then) - as long as you request and use a PAC (to keep the number) or STAC (to get a new number) by giving it to the new provider giving you the new deal.
    Much easier to actually do than it is to explain.
  • nottsphil
    nottsphil Posts: 682 Forumite
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    edited 23 October 2022 at 8:54PM
    tinker411 said:
    nottsphil said:
    OK well let me give a real-life example to help me understand. I'm in the second year of a 12-month contract with ID of unlimited calls/texts and 100GB per month, which is now not enough. I was going to wait until Black Friday (25 November) but won't make it to the end of this month (27th) as I only have a handful of GBs left. If I take ID's offer of 200GB/1 month contract as an interim measure, maybe tomorrow, are you saying that I could then leave ID on Black Friday weekend without notice or penalty? If so, would this still apply if the one month deal I get is with a different provider?

    Hmm, well, putting aside the fact you're apparently not interested in doing a price plan change on your existing iD sim (which may be the easiest option as Royal Mail are on strike again this Tuesday as things stand so a new sim would likely be delayed) 
    Baffled by this bit - I never suggested the interim deal might be with anyone other than ID! In fact I'm planning to do that upgrade this evening, so was wondering if it's all automatic and I get the new allowance within minutes of losing the old one. I will have exceeded 99GB by then, so will they take this into account when calculating my refund?
    I do wish they would put basic information like this on their website instead of just presuming that everybody knows!
  • tinker411
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    edited 24 October 2022 at 12:55AM
    nottsphil said:
    tinker411 said:
    nottsphil said:
    OK well let me give a real-life example to help me understand. I'm in the second year of a 12-month contract with ID of unlimited calls/texts and 100GB per month, which is now not enough. I was going to wait until Black Friday (25 November) but won't make it to the end of this month (27th) as I only have a handful of GBs left. If I take ID's offer of 200GB/1 month contract as an interim measure, maybe tomorrow, are you saying that I could then leave ID on Black Friday weekend without notice or penalty? If so, would this still apply if the one month deal I get is with a different provider?

    Hmm, well, putting aside the fact you're apparently not interested in doing a price plan change on your existing iD sim (which may be the easiest option as Royal Mail are on strike again this Tuesday as things stand so a new sim would likely be delayed) 
    Baffled by this bit - I never suggested the interim deal might be with anyone other than ID! In fact I'm planning to do that upgrade this evening, so was wondering if it's all automatic and I get the new allowance within minutes of losing the old one. I will have exceeded 99GB by then, so will they take this into account when calculating my refund?
    I do wish they would put basic information like this on their website instead of just presuming that everybody knows!

    Oh - the way your post was written it was like you were planning on taking out a new iD sim to run alongside your existing one, when doing a price plan change instead would be simpler and easier for the situation you describe.
    The answer to the rest of your queries is yes. It's automatic (done within 30 minutes) and you'll get a pro-rata allowance of the higher data allowance until your upcoming bill date when you'll get the full amount. Any unused data won't rollover until the following bill though.
    This link here should be quite informative: https://www.idmobile.co.uk/help-and-advice/plan-changes

  • nottsphil
    nottsphil Posts: 682 Forumite
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    edited 24 October 2022 at 3:32AM
    tinker411 said:
    nottsphil said:
    tinker411 said:
    nottsphil said:
    OK well let me give a real-life example to help me understand. I'm in the second year of a 12-month contract with ID of unlimited calls/texts and 100GB per month, which is now not enough. I was going to wait until Black Friday (25 November) but won't make it to the end of this month (27th) as I only have a handful of GBs left. If I take ID's offer of 200GB/1 month contract as an interim measure, maybe tomorrow, are you saying that I could then leave ID on Black Friday weekend without notice or penalty? If so, would this still apply if the one month deal I get is with a different provider?

    Hmm, well, putting aside the fact you're apparently not interested in doing a price plan change on your existing iD sim (which may be the easiest option as Royal Mail are on strike again this Tuesday as things stand so a new sim would likely be delayed) 
    Baffled by this bit - I never suggested the interim deal might be with anyone other than ID! In fact I'm planning to do that upgrade this evening, so was wondering if it's all automatic and I get the new allowance within minutes of losing the old one. I will have exceeded 99GB by then, so will they take this into account when calculating my refund?
    I do wish they would put basic information like this on their website instead of just presuming that everybody knows!

    Oh - the way your post was written it was like you were planning on taking out a new iD sim to run alongside your existing one, when doing a price plan change instead would be simpler and easier for the situation you describe.
    The answer to the rest of your queries is yes. It's automatic (done within 30 minutes) and you'll get a pro-rata allowance of the higher data allowance until your upcoming bill date when you'll get the full amount. Any unused data won't rollover until the following bill though.
    This link here should be quite informative: https://www.idmobile.co.uk/help-and-advice/plan-changes

    Thanks for that link. I was expecting my current month to be terminated prematurely and the unused bit of it to be deducted from the price of the new one, which I expected to start today with 200GB and last 30 days. I now see this is not the case but I should get at least 26GB for the last 4 days of this month.
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