Cheapest SIM only contract??
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What are the cheapest SIM Only contracts available, and who are the providers.
(Not PAYG) - quite happy to be tied into a 12/24 month contract if the price is right!
Thanks
(Not PAYG) - quite happy to be tied into a 12/24 month contract if the price is right!
Thanks
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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjKnq7RtRv_sdDEyTkdIN1FCZ1RZUjdJTUdUV294bFE&usp=sharing#gid=0
I made it.
Havent updated it in a couple of weeks though. Will probably get around to it this weekend.
Info in the spreadsheet should be 99% accurate though.
EE's 30 day plans are a lot more than Tesco, Virgin etc. Why?
Short answer-
EE are a premium operator
Long answer-
EE is a mobile network operator. They build their network, they maintain their network, they have huge costs to do this and thus they need to price their plans in a area that will allow them to turn a profit.
Tesco don't have their own mobile network, they don't have costs to build a network, they don't have costs to maintain a network etc... As they rent the network they can afford to price their plans cheaper to turn a profit.
fair point, thanks. They're more than O2 though - are they that much better? I'm London based
Do you mean are tesco that much better than o2?
Signal wise they're the same as O2 as they run on that network. If not please ignore the following!
Customer service wise they're a world apart from O2. In the years I was with O2 if ever there was a problem you could guarantee you would be at least an hour on hold to get through to some incompetent idiot who acted like them sorting out your issue was too much like hard work. Would fob you off with some excuse so you'd have to call at least three times, each time spending an age on hole (my longest was 1 hour 50 minutes on hold) before you got the issue sorted. When I left they asked why, I told them tesco had a sim only that was better than theirs. In an attempt to keep my custom they offered a 'similar' (the CS's exact words) sim only deal which consisted of 700 less minutes. The same sms and 700mb less of data for £4 more. And the rep was shocked when I said no thanks.
The few occasions I've had to call tesco I've gotten through in a few minutes and a pleasant CS rep has sorted the problem out within a few minutes. Once I had a general enquiry which he was sorted immediately and £10 taken off my next bill because the information should have been explained to be when I took the contract out.
O2 could learn a lot about customer service from tesco.
You'll need to elaborate on that
How much allowances are you wanting? I.E Unlimited Texts/Minutes/Data?
Here's a spreadsheet via someone at HotUKDeals that explains most mobile operator tariffs;-
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjKnq7RtRv_sdDEyTkdIN1FCZ1RZUjdJTUdUV294bFE&usp=sharing#gid=0
*3.5gb of data, no 4G.
I'm fully aware of the fair use policy thanks, even though i'm told by various virgin employees there isn't one.
VM will slow your connection down to a crawl if you dare go over the limited "unlimited" 3.5GB.
When I was canceling my 30day contract, VM bod tried to convince me there was no throttling, or 3.5GB limit, until he slipped up later in the call admitting there is, in fact, a 3.5GB fair usage and the speed will be ahem..."traffic managed".
If you want streaming or YouTube etc, VM is most definitely not the provider to be with.
Glad to see the back of them.
Why don't they just say it's 3.5GB? It's so dishonest.
It's like ISPs used to be 10 years ago...
Again, i'm fully aware of the situation and have been since I joined Virgin Mobile over two years ago. I've been told by more staff that there isn't a FUP than I have been that there is.
I'm not making any statements either way, just simply relaying what i've been told.
http://store.virginmedia.com/the-legal-stuff/our-service.html#12
Tesco have been adding quite a lot of new customers and are probably the UK's second biggest MVNO now behind Virgin Mobile.