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Posted: 21:54 - 29 May 2019 Post subject: Phone contracts. |
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My head hurts.
I have come to the end of my contract with EE.
I have a contract with 2 phones (mine and wifies) and a tablet with unlimited text and minutes & 4 GB shared data which is perfectly ample for us. Total cost£48 a month.
I went to get an upgrade and keep the contract going but was informed that they were not doing shared contracts any more but what they would do is give me a bit of discount off the new contracts.
OK, so costs.....
A new S10 for your wife Sir, £52 a month with 20GB data
For you Sir, how about a Pixel 3 for £44 a month and I'll discount the up front cost.
So from £48 a month to £96 a month, take a hike pal.
What can I do? SIM only contracts are about the same as I am paying now but no new phone and I don't want to fork out £700 for a phone for wifey when it isn't her birthday and she hasn't promised me a B... you know what.
I could just keep my old contract but I was paying for a Galaxy S7 for her on that so I begrudge carrying on paying it now the the phone is paid for.
Is there another company do a contract where I can have everything on one bill? I can't seem to find what I want.
Is it worth trying Carphone warehouse? Are they truly independent?
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Posted: 22:23 - 29 May 2019 Post subject: Re: Phone contracts. |
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Polarbear wrote: | What can I do? SIM only contracts are about the same as I am paying now but no new phone and I don't want to fork out £700 for a phone for wifey when it isn't her birthday and she hasn't promised me a B... you know what. |
Chuffin' eck.
I bought (edit) my own phone, and pay £7.50 PCM to "Smarty" (piggybacking off Three) for 4GB/month plus unlimited texts and calls, monthly payment only, if I find a better deal I tell them bye bye and switch at the end of the month. If I don't use the 4GB of data, I get a refund on unused data, and as most of my data goes via my router, it costs me about £4/month for data when I need it plus unlimited calls/texts after the "unused data refund".
Even their unlimited everything data/txt/calls is only £25/pcm.
If your existing 'phone is yours and still does what you want it to do (I only use mine for browsing t' net/calls/texts), then anything like what you are being asked to pay is absolutely robbery with violence.
Edit: When you switch service provider, you can keep your old telephone number. As you have set up your 'phone yourself I assume and it has "evolved" to meet your requirements and what you are comfortable with, not needing to change that is also a huge boon.
Edit again after edits, my last SMS from Smarty (Thursday): "Hi Riejufixing, this is a quick note to confirm your payment for the Medium plan. You saved 3.7GB last month and that's £4.64 discounted from this month's bill!". So my unlimited txts/mins/bit of data cost me £7.5-£4.64. You can work it out, I have been at the cider. EDIT yet again, i think that's less than £3/month.
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The wife and I both have £11 a month SIM only contracts with EE, we each get unlimited minutes and texts, and 11GB of data each. ____________________ Chances are quite high you are not in my Monkeysphere, and I don't care about you. Don't take it personally.
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Giff Gaff, £10 a month (each), unlimited calls/texts 3GB data but after you have reached month 3 they will give you an extra 1GB data free as well.
So to recap, 6GB data between the 2 of you, unlimited calls and texts and £10 each a month. Runs on the 02 network, no contract, free to port numbers, no contract so you can leave when you like. It's basically PAYG. Data speeds are fab now, they used to be a bit slow but that issue has been resolved.
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I'm still using an old iPhone 6 plus on a sim only deal with O2 for £12 a month for 5GB data and 5,000 minutes, unlimited texts. Sod upgrading - phones are so expensive now, people forget that you need to build in around £40 a month on top of call and data charges to pay for the latest iPhone over 2 years.
I do however have 2 geographical landlines with O2 on constant divert, so they get another £25 a month out of me for those, which is still cheaper than BT. At some stage, I'll end up moving those two numbers over to my VOIP platform, I just can't be arsed at the moment.
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owl wrote: | The Shaggy D.A. wrote: | The wife and I both have £11 a month SIM only contracts with EE, we each get unlimited minutes and texts, and 11GB of data each. |
It’s always amusing hearing prices, according to their website the most £13 can get you is 250mb of data
https://shop.ee.co.uk/sim-only/pay-monthly-phones
So how did you end up getting that price?
I do believe you btw, just curious. |
Every time they write to say the prices are going up, we call and ask for cancellations. They try to offer more...
EE : How about 20GB data?
Me : How much did I use this month?
EE : 500Mb
Me : No thanks, but you can make it cheaper
There'll be a deal that they might have run as a one-off promotion on the system they can choose from. The deal might have expired, but someone high enough in retentions will have the ability to put you on it, or match it. Just be prepared to walk, and let them blink first. ____________________ Chances are quite high you are not in my Monkeysphere, and I don't care about you. Don't take it personally.
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The missus is still with them, they’re roaming access is atrocious and costs a small fortune depending where you go. |
Times have changed, your info is wrong for pay monthly customers.
They are owned by Telefonica, so I've always found coverage spot on in Spanish countries and Europe data roaming is included in most tariffs for free.
Quote: | You'll be able to make and receive calls and send and receive texts within our Europe Zone, and use your data like you'd normally do in the UK. You don’t need to opt in – it’ll be added to your account automatically, as long as you’re on an eligible tariff. |
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Cool story, but we were in the states (there's places outside of Europe believe it or not) a month ago and whilst my phone worked perfectly fine and free of charge, her data was slow AF obviously capped, and she got charged £5 a day for the privilege (well her company did).
She's on the top tier contract.
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And the vast majority of Brits on O2 will be using them in the States will they Cpt. Junior Champagne Socialist? Did it ever cross your mind that US networks are not always fully compatible with UK phones? If the phone only supports the 1700Mhz band, they'll only get US Mobile LTE coverage for data. For 4G/HSPA+ coverage, they need to support the 1900Mhz frequency.
You used a cross border comment about O2 as if it applied to everyone, which is complete bollocks for the majority of UK users. Roaming across Europe is free on O2 and data access as good as any. The word doesn't centre around you, no matter what they taught you at school. If you were specifically on about the US, it would have made sense to say so, because this below is bollocks in the vast majority of cases for UK users abroad.
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they’re roaming access is atrocious and costs a small fortune depending where you go. |
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