Vodafone Stop The Clock

mig25_foxbat2003

Hi all,

I love the adverts, but is this service all it's cracked up to be?

For those who haven't seen it, Vodafone are offering 60 minutes for the price of 3 on all their 18 month contracts.

At present, I am on Orange, and for £25 p/m I get 1000 off peak minutes to any network. I rang disconnections about an upgrade, and I was offered 500 anytime anyone minutes and 100 texts for £30, plus a K750i for £14.99

I wasn't happy with this, so I checked out the Vodafone offers. For £25 per month I can get 200 minutes, 250 texts, a K750i free (I definitely want that phone, the camera is superb) and a free HP photo printer. In addition, the first 6 months are half price. 200 minutes doesn't sound like much, but with Stop The Clock, that turns into 4000 off peak minutes - or 2800 off peak minutes and 60 on peak minutes, if (like me) you make few calls on peak every month.

Is there anything to stop me getting my PAC code and moving right now? Have I missed anything stupid here? It seems a little too good to be true.

Cheers all,
Russell

sumcca07

Hi Russell,

I am just wondering the same thing! I've been on the web all afternoon & can't seem to find anything to beat the Vodafone stop the clock deal...

Has anyone actually signed up for this yet?

Intruigued....

Sue

kai666

My g/f uses stop the clock all the time for making cheap calls to Russia. She routes the call through onetell, then pays 15p (for 3 mins) to vodafone, and 1p a min to onetel, so she gets an hours call to russia for 75p on her mobile.

her calls are much longer than they used to be!

suncika

Hi,
could you tell me how your g/f is making international calls using Onetel-Vodaphone combination.I'm also on the same package with Vodaphone and all my landline calls are going through Onetel.

Thank you for your reply.

andy88_2

Alternatively you can get a Vodafone contract with 1000 minutes off-peak for 18 months with full rental cashback for £1.16 total.

(edit - SIM only)

seaniboy

my second phone is a voda payg I get 200 mins for £25 and Stop clock without the 18 month contract!


http://www.vodafone.co.uk/cgi-bin/COUK/portal/ep/browse.do?channelPath=/Vodafone%20Portal/Get%20more%20from%20your%20mobile/Coverage%20and%20price%20plans/Pay%20as%20you%20talk&BV_SessionID=@@@@0269455291.1122856631@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccckaddffhfdhdjcflgcegjdgnfdffk.0

andy88_2

£1.16 works out to about 6.4p per month, slightly cheaper than £25

pin

One thing you should watch out for with these Vodafone offers is that you are required to take a brand new number, i.e. you can't port:

"Prices subject to connection to a Vodafone Limited airtime contract and requires a UK bank account. Price is only available to customers taking a new mobile number and not available to customers who are transferring an existing mobile number from another service provider or network or upgrading an existing mobile number. Prices are subject to change without prior notice. All prices include VAT."

pricefighter

pin wrote:

One thing you should watch out for with these Vodafone offers is that you are required to take a brand new number, i.e. you can't port.

Pin raises an excellent point here. Dont commit yourself and lose a valued no!!! Check the t&c, other companies will follow suit.See my posting on this at
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=73346

kai666

suncika wrote:

Hi,
could you tell me how your g/f is making international calls using Onetel-Vodaphone combination.I'm also on the same package with Vodaphone and all my landline calls are going through Onetel.

Thank you for your reply.

She does it like this....

1. Register the phone with onetel's mobile override
2. Dial their 0207 or 0800 number depending whether you are on orange or another network
3. Onetel's foreign numbers are still expensive so then dial through to something like telediscount, dialwise etc (for Russia onetel is 20p, telediscount is 1p)
4. Finally dial the international number

You have to dial in about 30 numbers, but nokia's at least can be programmed to dial the number all at once using the pause function. There is instructions on how to do this somewhere on this site if you don't know how to do it. Or I will go through it later, when I get back from work if you're not sure

andy88_2

In a lot of cases it would be easier to use one step and a different provider like 1899, but their rate for Russia is 2p of course. However, kai666, I see that you imply that Onetel will only charge you 1p per minute for 0844 numbers. This is interesting - and how about 0871 numbers; another method of calling these for 1p/min has been discontinued.