mobile phones

BenL

I rent a place without a landline so I am the opposite.

A landline is not required, I am out of the house between 8am and 6pm so no need then.

At night I might be out somewhere so again no use.

I don't live with my g/f so the inclusive minutes to her on a mobile out and about is good.

No need to remember phone numbers, its all there. Emergency camera as well.

Free txt messages ona contract as well.

Instead of buying a phone on payg being smart with a contract is the easiest way I have found over the years.

New phone for free, free minutes, free txt, free gifts, cashback.

I spend a lot less on my phone than people will do on payg.

Looking at a some SOAs on here £15 a month for payg.

The last deal I got was a free phone, free 600 mins, couple hundred txt messages, free xbox 360, and 4 lots of cashback.

After the contract runs out and after all the calculating has been done the phone costs about £4 a month.

The xbox 360 was sold on ebay within a few days of it arriving.

PS3's can be had as part of the deal and sold on for just short of £300 within days so they subsidise the contract cost.

I got mine from dialaphone who were excellent.

A landline may have a use for Sky broadband in the future now I have a sky connection but if not a standalone cable broadband from Virgin would have been better than a BT service.

iolanthe07

I refuse to own a mobile 'phone and I refuse to make a call to them from my land line because it costs too much. Not a problem.

kel123_2

Yes I gave the same reasons for not giving up my mobile phone!!!!

The work need to contact me - if it was that important theyed supply one?

It's there for an emergancy - Havn't had one in 3 years probably never will?

yes but it's conveniant - Time proved me wrong

Yes I agree there are situations like not being able to have a land line or it's part of your business although you can only claim about 30% against Tax, more if you can proove no personal phone calls, but! are you looking at them objectively or by what the sales person as told you? What would you rather have?

£35 per month =

3.5 take aways
84 Asda best bitters
7 fish and chips or 6 Cabab and chips
2 or 3 meals out (£10 for 2 + a drink)
£420 towards a Holiday
3.5 x £10 joints of meat cut up frozen = 175 Sunday dinners (yorkshires not included)
7 bottles of red wine (cianti or Merlot)
£420 to stop a CCJ
etc
etc
etc

Sorry but I don't understand it when some one says the bank will not help me and they are still using a mobile phone and what's more they tell them????

End of RANT

Kel

kel123_2

Just realised my list's all about food and drink! Whats that say about me??

Kel

mymatebob

Took a call on my mobile while I was out shopping.

That's me got some work lined up which I would have otherwise missed.

1 call has netted me in excess of 3 years worth of line rental (calls and texts included)
Which is fine for a weekends work

Snaggles

I like my phone...I'm not giving it up.

It costs me £15 a month - I don't go out drinking or smoke, and I can afford it. I am easily contactable if anyone I care about needs me. And if I don't want to be contacted, I don't answer, or I send a quick text saying 'can't talk at the moment, but will be home this evening'.

I could cope without it, but I don't want to. I like taking advantage of technology to make my life easier.

We DID used to manage without the internet too you know.... :D

kel123_2

Snaggles said

and I can afford it... I'm not knocking that

and

We DID used to manage without the internet too you know....and I can afford it

But what i'm saying is what is more important?

TangledMemories_2

Fair enough point...

However, I can say honestly that me and the OH definitely need ours for two reasons...
1) Because apart from working full time shifts, I'm his carer so if he's ill he needs to reach me whether I'm in the office, out or at the airport.

2)My job

Snaggles

Do you mean what's more important between a mobile phone and the internet? Or between a mobile phone and....something else?

(not being funny, I'm just having a blonde moment, but want to answer your question...lol)

Personally, I wouldn't want to give up either my phone OR my computer/internet connection, HOWEVER, if it was a choice between those and feeding/clothing my children for example, I would give them up quicker than you could blink.

Toomuchdebt

Well I'll be different here-my BF works away from Monday morning 5am to Friday evening 8pm...if we didn't have mobiles we wouldn't be able to talk very much to each other-we both have O2 contracts where we get free calls to O2 numbers.So for me it's an essential item as it would be very hard to keep a relationship going with only seeing each other at weekends.