they have gone from being the cheapest and really good to now the worst and most expensive here are there new deals.also there bundle deals arnt good compare to 3,giffgaff,02,vodafone

All calls per minute 10p
All texts 6p
Voicemail 10p
SMS 6p
GPRS/Data per MB 50p
Calls to Overseas from UK per Min 30p
Texts to Overseas from UK per SMS 30p

www.familymobile.co.uk offers a tariff similar to the old Asda one

yea they and giffgaff are very good for the people with not much money i am amazed asda mobile is still going or has many people.

Which network do Family Mobile use?

T-Mobile - it's a JV between Ikea and Mobile Partners Group

Asda have more than doubled the cost of data! Oh dear....

So it's more gone up from below £250 per GB up to £500 per GB.


Or is it capped?

My ASDA phone is used as a spare so, although the data costs are high if you use it a lot, for the odd football score, its fine. I didnt want the "30p a day for 25mb" offer from other providers as that would cost the full 25p to check that one football score! (I use Opera Mini)

But, really, doubling it?! Still, if im just checking something like a football score, I should still be ok if im careful.

Tesco mobile lite is still charging 8ppm at the moment.

For how long I don't know, because it is effectively a 'tesco price match' copy of the Asda tariff.......

talk mobile are doing a pay as you go called essentials
8p per min
4p per message
25p mobile internet
half price calls and text to talkmobile

There is also www.icardmobile.co.uk

UK landlines 2p/min
UK mobiles 6p/min
Texts 5p/each

although, last month they were 1p/min to landlines and 5p/min to mobiles and 4p texts, so they might go up again next month.

Let's not forget Asda don't actually put their rates up until the end of this month. They brought them down first in 2009, and Tesco Lite, TalkMobile Essentials, Family Mobile and Giffgaff all effectively followed Asda's lead of making 8p/calls and 4p/texts the "value base line" . Expect most of these to become 10p/6p as the new base line.

It seems Vectone Mobile give 5p a minute/5p a text and the first 10mb of data a day are free. They use the T-Mobile network. Bye, bye Asda.

don't join vectone they are a con company they lie and don't ever pick up there phones they took there facebook page down because every one was complaining about them.

http://www.freeindex.co.uk/profile%2...%29_245597.htm

http://www.reviewcentre.com/reviews250975.html

Hmm.....

I think any of the smaller mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) should be treated with a huge amount of caution. They often have seemingly great deals, which do in fact turn out to be too good to be true.

Nomi Mobile seems to have just gone bust just last week. That means customers have lost their number and their credit.
http://www.prepaidmvno.com/2011/05/0...-receivership/

If you're happy to chance a special offer, the smaller MVNOs may work for you for a while. Not worth trusting with a business-critical phone number or a large amount of prepay credit.

The MVNOs with a brand or parent owner to protect (Tesco, Asda, Talkmobile, FamilyMobile, Giffgaff, PhoneCo-op) are always going to be more reliable than the likes of Vectone, Nomi, Simfiniti, icardmobile, Lyca, Lebera, NowMobile etc etc. These companies are springing up all over the place.

I don't think Lebara are too bad and they are part of a large group. I've not heard good things about Lyca or Vectone and even less good about I-card.

GiffGaff seem to be fine if you are happy doing everything online and they are ultimately owned by O2 so pretty much no chance of losing number or credit- worse case if the GiffGaff group got into difficulties they would just merge customers on to O2 from where you could port your number elsewhere.

Tesco are fine, but their data is not very flexible- you have to have a weekly pass rather than paying by the day. Otherwise they are fine and are backed by O2 as well- so again your number and credit are safe- but not sure if they will follow Asda upwards in price

Had me jumping for my debit card after seeing £0.3p advertised for calling home from Spain then luckily realised its £0.03p.

Catch a monkey comes to mind.

Good try guys almost had me but then 30p a minute not bad but after reading this post I will be giving this lot a wide berth.

ASDA still have one thing going for them - being on vodafone means that customers who want vodafone coverage, have a cheap option.

I think Talkmobile use Vodfone too.

Right you are. I was sure they were another T-Mobile mvno a few years ago. They may be worth moving to.

It's a shame that IKEA use T-Mobile, I like the fact they have call divert on payg, but the coverage for voice is poor. Maybe the MBNL will improve that.

Thank you.