Nokia 5146 (n402 think it was called on Orange) on Orange PAYG with 10 free texts a day and calls that cost a fortune.

I was on Mercury One2One as it was called then and sold in Tandy Stores!


The Phone was a M200 Made by Siemens but a One2one branded device slimilar to a housebrick! Later I got an M300 and M600 which was a great phone. The M600 could do this new thing called SMS.

The Tarriff was called Personal Call and offered Free evening and weekend Local Calls (which is mostly what I used it for). This was all for £12.50 per month and the phone cost nearly £200. No free phones then!

The Local call thing was a disaster as the phone would pick up a cell outside the area where you were and you would be billed. Not sure how they managed to get round that. I only stopped that tariff after one2one decided to stop any upgrades for this tariff.

Mobiles then were a luxury and the one2one network only worked around the M25 and a few bigger towns and cities outside it at that time so coverage was not ideal.

Have an Iphone on O2 now and 3G coverage often feels about the same!

Mine was on Voda pay & go smartstep the phone was a sagem cant think of the model number now? kept the phone number it's been on three different networks, now on o2 simplicity contract

My first phone was a Dancall (part of Amstrad) in 1996. I remember it could receive a text but could not send them...lol
Had it less than 2 weeks as I moved down south for a new job and had no reception to got a full refund (can't remember the 'deal').
Few months later and Orange started sticking up a few masts so I got a Nokia 5.1 (Orange name, cannot remember what Nokia called it). It was the first Nokia that brought the phones to the masses.....

It was back in 1999, I had a brick of a phone (Nokia) and was on Pay as You Go with OneToOne. Minimum topup £20 a month. Damned expensive call charges they were too.

mine was the motorola mr20 on a vodafone contract aint got a clue how much tho as it was 15 years ago lol

It must have been about '94/'95 and it was a Peoples Phone PP800. I think it was about £30 per month.

No pay and go services on the old analogue systems so the Nokia RinGo couldn't have ever have been on pay as you go???

Wrong.

The first service was called "Vodafone Pre-Pay", and was solely on ETACS.

£29.38 voucher gave 28 days service and 25 mins calls.

Used a Nokia Ringo handset.

The only pre-pay service for about 10-12 months before Vodafone launched a GSM variant, along with the other networks...

I had a Hutchinson Telecom Pager costing £20/month then when Orange started I bought their first and only phone, costing £300 and then a rental of £20 a month and calls at around 30p a min.

Texting was not yet invented. This was around 1994, I think.

I have only just thrown away my original bills and they were many times more what I pay now.

my first was a motorola brick on orange. I paid £150 upfront for 12 month line rental with 30 (?) mins and no sms

My first phone i think was the Philips Savvy on orange pay as you talk. I really liked one of the ringtones on it, wish my iphone had it lol.

Edit: No wait, the first phone I had was a Motorola M3288e. I remember it being very cheap something like £40, and at the time it was very cheap for a mobile phone.

I got my first phone in 1998 or 1997.

Siemens C10

Vodafone Pay As You Talk

Peak Time (6am-6pm) - 35p per minute
Off-Peak and Weekends - 5p per minute

£5 - all credit
£15 - 3 months line rental and £7.50 credit

or something like that.

My first phone was the nokia 3410 which was good, and then the nokia 6230i which I've just come off, and just bought LG BL20 which is a big disappointment

My first phone was a Nokia brick - on Vodafone analogue, contract was with UniqueAir (Unipart group, later bought out by Vodafone).

Can't remember the costs and prices, but was in my final year at university, so was around 1995/6 ish.

My first GSM phone was the Nokia Orange 5.1, unsurprisingly on Orange contract. Didn't even have SMS at first, then I added the SMS option to my contract at something like £2 a month!

It was on BT cellnet and it was (i think), a motorolla a815?

Nearly right


Seems really odd talking about these old plans...takes me back to when I first started in the industry

Nokia 8146 on One2One on a £25 a month tariff that gave free local and national evening calls. I got this as I was staying in university halls of residence and it was costing me too much using the phone cards we had to use for the phones in our rooms to call home (I remember spending £80 on them in one week which prompted the switch to a mobile)

I now have an iPhone which does a little more than the nokia (though doesn't feature an active slide to answer calls which also housed the microphone and was more hassle than it was worth as the microphone kept breaking)

Nokia 3210 on one2one (now T-Mobile) pay as you go.

30p for the first two minutes, 5p after that.

My first phone was a Dancall, £20 a month on Cellnet with £5.00 worth of free calls. I got it in 1997 and the phone was free with no connection charge (remember that charge?), it was a good deal at the time! The number started 04101.

May 1999, I had just passed my test, was in a right old banger of a Fiesta and whilst out it broke down. And it was a pain going to a payphone and waiting for the AA to call back. So I bought myself a mobile.

It was a Nokia 5110, purchased from Dial-a-Phone. 12 month contract, £14.99 per month and that got me 50 off peak minutes. Daytime calls were 40p per minutes, texts 12p. This was on Vodafone

Despite changing network several times over the years I still have the same number!

The Nokia 5110 was traded in against my new phone, a Siemens SL45 on T-Mobile about 16 months later