MSE Lebara Deal, is a Spend Cap in place automatically, and any Auto Top up already off?

HaroldWhistler

There are some excellent MSE Lebara deals on the comparison page. 

If one chooses a plan that has a data limit (e.g. Unlimited mins, unlimited texts and 100GB plan), then will the maximum you spend per month purely be the offer monthly price (in this case £1.10) for the offer period (in this case 7 months)?

Is a spend cap/data limit put in place automatically for you, or do you need to tweak anything? So that in the event you get anywhere near the data limit, you are not charged beyond that per month.

I get that "Auto renew" will be on by default for as long as you choose to renew, and you could PAC code out and then PAC code back to a new MSE deal with Lebara later on. I'm just trying to clarify that Lebara could not start charging more if you somehow hit the plan's data limit that month and instead the mobile data element would simply stop working until the next month. 

Many thanks

Peter999_2

If you go over your limit with Lebara you will get charged 9p per MB used on a pay as you go basis.

However, you can turn this off in the Lebara app.    There is a option called "Auto Top-Up" and you just make sure that is disabled and then you cannot get charged but obviously your mobile data will stop when you go over the allowance.

On my Lebara contract, it was already disabled for me so presumably it is by default.
 
I have previously done the "PAC dance" with my mobile phone number and it worked fine with a new contract.

HaroldWhistler

Peter999_2 said:

If you go over your limit with Lebara you will get charged 9p per MB used on a pay as you go basis.

However, you can turn this off in the Lebara app.    There is a option called "Auto Top-Up" and you just make sure that is disabled and then you cannot get charged but obviously your mobile data will stop when you go over the allowance.

On my Lebara contract, it was already disabled for me so presumably it is by default.
 
I have previously done the "PAC dance" with my mobile phone number and it worked fine with a new contract.

That's what I meant yes. I've used an Unlimited Lebara SIM before so never really had to use it. I know with some networks/MNVOs, a Spend Cap is on by default when it comes to data. 

Hopefully it's off by Default for Lebara. I'll check for that on the App then. I couldn't recall if there was anything on the web interface Account settings last time I was with them. So long as "Auto Renew" stays on and the "Auto Top-up" is off, that should be fine for the 7 month deal. 

That's great to hear. I was going to say also, when you PAC out of Lebara, do you have to manually go in and turn "Auto Renew" off or does that happen automatically when you leave?

Many thanks