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Cheapest Pay as you Go networks
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Steven L Hunter
02-01-2005
Leave your cheapest PAYG networks in order from the cheapest first.
Mines would be:

CHEAPEST
1.ThreePay
2.Fresh
3.Virgin Mobile
4.Orange
5.Tesco Mobile
6.T-Mobile
7.O2
8.vodafone
EXPENSIVE

What are yours?
nodnol
02-01-2005
Why on earth would you want 8 payg mobiles/sims?

Surely that works out very expensive?
Steven L Hunter
02-01-2005
Originally Posted by nodnol:
“Why on earth would you want 8 payg mobiles/sims?

Surely that works out very expensive?”

I was meaning what are the cheapest pay as you go networks in your opinion.
lee18xx
02-01-2005
The cheapest i've been on is Vodafone PAYT

The most expensive i've been on is T-Mobile PAYT

Simple as that...not had any other pre-pay networks - I was with vodafone for a very long time!
mattworld
02-01-2005
Cheapest First....

1. O2
2. Virgin
3. Vodafone
4. T-Mobile
nodnol
02-01-2005
Originally Posted by StevenGray16:
“I was meaning what are the cheapest pay as you go networks in your opinion.”

[list=1][*]3[*]Vodafone payg original for a long long time![*]Orange...contract a while ago now.....[/list]
Redcoat
02-01-2005
Really just depends who you call and what networks they are on and when you call them.

Virgin would suit some people here, but not me - I know no-one on Virgin and T-Mobile reception around here is ropey at best.

OTOH 80% of my contacts are on O2 so I'm on O2 PAYG Online and quite happy with it, although it isn't perfect.

A couple of years ago Ifelt Orange was perfect with it's £50 top-up tarrif - until it pulled it
Cookie
02-01-2005
Originally Posted by Redcoat:
“ A couple of years ago I
felt Orange was perfect with it's £50 top-up tarrif - until it pulled it ”

I thought the £50 Orange top up tarrif was the best. It really annoyed me that orange just stopped it with little warning and didn't honour that which had already been paid! I had just bought a £50 topup and still had nearly £40 left on my phone and my call charges suddenly doubled! The half price calls if you got a £50 top up was really great especially the 5p a minute off peak with no high charge for the first 3 minutes.
As most of my calls are weekend and evening I have just changed to Vodaphone as their offpeak is only 5p a minute on all topup amounts.
nodnol
03-01-2005
Originally Posted by Cookie:
“As most of my calls are weekend and evening I have just changed to Vodaphone as their offpeak is only 5p a minute on all topup amounts.”

On my Voda payg original, it's only 2p min eves/weekends, free voicemail. But then I am paying through the nose at peak, which I hardly use now, and also having to pay for service credit aswell.
Donnalisa
03-01-2005
£10 per month & U get 300 Txts FOC!!!! Gotta B the cheapest by far!!!! I also have an Orange sim card 4 the days when I am too poor 2 credit my phone with £10 - £5 top ups are still available on Orange!!!
Donkey
04-01-2005
As has been said already, it all depends on when you use your phone and how much you use it.

Me and the missus are both on Orange PAYG choose your own offpeak. We both tend to make our calls during the daytime, but still only pay 10p a minute to do so.

Even better when we are both out together, as we then double the amount of off peak time between us.

Yes, it was a bit of a bummer when they pulled the £50 voucher incentive, but from our point of view it is still the cheapest, and it has been said that orange offers the best reception down this part of the country (southwest).

Best reception of all is from my work place, but then it would be with a great big orange transmitter on the roof.
sean2003
04-01-2005
Originally Posted by Donkey:
“As has been said already, it all depends on when you use your phone and how much you use it.

Me and the missus are both on Orange PAYG choose your own offpeak. We both tend to make our calls during the daytime, but still only pay 10p a minute to do so.

Even better when we are both out together, as we then double the amount of off peak time between us.

Yes, it was a bit of a bummer when they pulled the £50 voucher incentive, but from our point of view it is still the cheapest, and it has been said that orange offers the best reception down this part of the country (southwest).

Best reception of all is from my work place, but then it would be with a great big orange transmitter on the roof.”

They give you £55 credit if you top up £50
Steven L Hunter
04-01-2005
Originally Posted by Donkey:
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Best reception of all is from my work place, but then it would be with a great big orange transmitter on the roof.”

Is it actually painted orange?
poppasmurf
04-01-2005
Surely there is no such thing as a 'cheap' pay as you go mobile tariff, just as there is no such thing as a 'cheap' mobile tariff. You must mean the least expensive. All their calls are horrendously expensive compared with my home phone charge of 5p for an hour via BT after 6pm and at weekends. And why do kids these days use text messages? My teenage daughter has just sent a text message (cost 12p) asking to be picked up at 7pm and expects me to text her back (another 12p) to say yes. Nuts to that, she can ring me and nuts to paying expensive call charges.
sean2003
04-01-2005
Originally Posted by poppasmurf:
“Surely there is no such thing as a 'cheap' pay as you go mobile tariff, just as there is no such thing as a 'cheap' mobile tariff. You must mean the least expensive. All their calls are horrendously expensive compared with my home phone charge of 5p for an hour via BT after 6pm and at weekends. And why do kids these days use text messages? My teenage daughter has just sent a text message (cost 12p) asking to be picked up at 7pm and expects me to text her back (another 12p) to say yes. Nuts to that, she can ring me and nuts to paying expensive call charges. ”

You should not be paying 12p!

There only 5p on www.freshmobile.co.uk
Steven L Hunter
04-01-2005
Originally Posted by sean2003:
“You should not be paying 12p!

There only 5p on www.freshmobile.co.uk”

I cannot get Fresh Mobile as they don't accept Visa Electron otherwise i would.
poppasmurf
04-01-2005
That's just it! I'm not paying anything as I refuse to use text. My nutty daughter can use her phone and ring me.
Steven L Hunter
04-01-2005
Originally Posted by poppasmurf:
“That's just it! I'm not paying anything as I refuse to use text. My nutty daughter can use her phone and ring me.”

What's wrong with texting?
sean2003
04-01-2005
Originally Posted by StevenGray16:
“I cannot get Fresh Mobile as they don't accept Visa Electron otherwise i would.”

You should change your bank
Donkey
04-01-2005
Originally Posted by StevenGray16:
“Is it actually painted orange?”

No, but I think I will end up glowing orange, er I mean green from all the radiation the thing probably puts out
Donkey
04-01-2005
Originally Posted by sean2003:
“They give you £55 credit if you top up £50”

Yeah, I did notice that. Also automatic 10% extra if you pay regularly by direct debit. Still nowhere as good as the old offer though
Steven L Hunter
04-01-2005
Originally Posted by Donkey:
“Yeah, I did notice that. Also automatic 10% extra if you pay regularly by direct debit. Still nowhere as good as the old offer though”

But virgin give you 10% back anyway so thats better.
Steven L Hunter
04-01-2005
Originally Posted by sean2003:
“You should change your bank ”

I don't want the hassle as its only CPW who don't accept.
sean2003
04-01-2005
Originally Posted by StevenGray16:
“But virgin give you 10% back anyway so thats better.”

Only if you sepend more than £30. On Orange DD you get it no matter how much you have spent
Steven L Hunter
04-01-2005
Originally Posted by sean2003:
“Only if you sepend more than £30. On Orange DD you get it no matter how much you have spent”

But you need to be 18 and I spend more than £30 on airtime anyway
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