virgin sim offer 300 text and 300 mins for £15

Freebyman

Did anyone see the advert for this?

Is it for real, I have a sim only rolling contract with Virgin for 200 mins and 200 texts for £15, do you think I could update to the 300 mins and 300 texts for the same money or would they just say no?

Buzby

I would expect this would be an either-or, why not call their Customer Services and ask?

Sid_Harper

they do the 300/300 for virgin media (cable tv) customers for £10 - so £15 for everyone else seems plausible to me!

pjvenner

I can't knock virgin for this one. I pay [negotiated] £15 a month for broadband only [£5 of that is a surcharge for not using direct debit]. I was incensed at the £5 surcharge, but as a virginmedia customer, this has to be the best PAYG deal going.

300 txts & 300 anytime any network minutes for £10 a month. I easily transferred my number from my old genie/o2 sim. Used to the max, the 300 mins of cross network or daytime calls would have cost up to £120..! That just about makes up for the surcharge.

The only drawback is I'm obliged to top up by a due date every month, but given the value, I don't have any problem with that.

Now if only they'd offer the latest handsets that are available for contract customers! even if they did it in arrears (eg: based on what you've spent in the last year or 2), I think that would make a near perfect PAYG service.

emeraldbugle

I have just phoned their CS, I have a pay as you go phone, paid on direct debit. They have changed me over, no problem. Just had to ask!

£15 for 300 mins and 300 texts, and no tie in!

Sid_Harper

pjvenner wrote: »

I can't knock virgin for this one. I pay [negotiated] £15 a month for broadband only [£5 of that is a surcharge for not using direct debit]. I was incensed at the £5 surcharge, but as a virginmedia customer, this has to be the best PAYG deal going.

300 txts & 300 anytime any network minutes for £10 a month. I easily transferred my number from my old genie/o2 sim. Used to the max, the 300 mins of cross network or daytime calls would have cost up to £120..! That just about makes up for the surcharge.

The only drawback is I'm obliged to top up by a due date every month, but given the value, I don't have any problem with that.

Now if only they'd offer the latest handsets that are available for contract customers! even if they did it in arrears (eg: based on what you've spent in the last year or 2), I think that would make a near perfect PAYG service.

wasn't aware of a PAYG equivalent - all the other posts are - as far as I know - talking about a £15 rolling contract

Half_Price_Sky

I've been on a similar deal of 200mins and 500texts for £15pm with Virgin Mobile for the past 18 months now.

I signed up to an introductiry offer when they first launched the tariff.

Back then they gave you a choice of 300mins+300texts or 200+500 though they now seem to have dropped the 200+500 deal.

Shortly after signing up they raised the price for new customers to £20 and while my contract stayed at £15 I was a bit annoyed that they wouldn't swap me over to the 300+300 tariff without me losing my discount even though both deals were the same price when I signed up.

Might give them a call now and swap over to the 300+300 deal.

Freebyman

Just looked on the website its called the Liberty sim, Im going to ring tomorrow.

utilitybroker

The £15 offer is not payg, it is a pay monthly contract without a long tie in ,and is subject to a credit check etc.


http://www.virginmobile.com/vm/paymonthlySimOnly.do

bobstheboy

A search of these forums will lead you to a thread where you can get 300 + 300 with a Virgin sim only deal for £10 a month. You just have to be recommended by a Virgin Media customer and a nice member of this site did this for me.

Just look.

Bob

emeraldbugle

utilitybroker wrote: »

The £15 offer is not payg, it is a pay monthly contract without a long tie in ,and is subject to a credit check etc.


http://www.virginmobile.com/vm/paymonthlySimOnly.do

You are only tied in for a month. Nothing more than that.