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Best PAYG (or cheap SIM only contract) with unlimited data package.
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| ChrisM 2008-02-20, 10:33 am |
| Can anyone suggest a good cheap contract deal (or PAYG) that includes a
decent (pref. unlimited) data package.
At the moment, I'm paying Virgin Media £10/month for a 300 minutes and 300
texts. Which is great, but I want to make more use of data services, and VM
data charges just take the pi**, I phoned them today, and they say there are
not current plans to introduce any sort of data plan in the immediate future
so I think I'm going to have to look elsewhere. I'll plan to be mainly using
the data for email, google maps and possibly the occasional download of
software/games etc, so don't need a massive monthy allowance, though I guess
Google Maps is fairly data intensive(...?)
I would prefer a fixed price for specific amount of minutes/texts deal, like
I have now, rather than paying for what I use, but if the total monthly bill
is roughly the same, not THAT bothered. Don't usually use all the
minutes/texts the Virgin give me, a deal with 150 of each would probably be
plenty...
3 seems to have the best/cheapest deals, but my (new)phone is not 3G, and
don't think I'll get a decent replacement phone without either paying or
choosing a higher tariff than I need.
So in a nutshell, your suggestions please, for the best (non-3G) SIM only
deal giving me approx 150 minutes and 150 texts per month for about 10 quid,
with the option of a decent(ie reasonably priced) data package.
TIA,
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Regards,
Chris.
(Remove Elvis's shoes to email me)
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| On 20 Feb 2008, ChrisM wrote
> Can anyone suggest a good cheap contract deal (or PAYG) that
> includes a decent (pref. unlimited) data package.
> At the moment, I'm paying Virgin Media £10/month for a 300
> minutes and 300 texts. Which is great, but I want to make more
> use of data services, and VM data charges just take the pi**, I
> phoned them today, and they say there are not current plans to
> introduce any sort of data plan in the immediate future so I
> think I'm going to have to look elsewhere. I'll plan to be
> mainly using the data for email, google maps and possibly the
> occasional download of software/games etc, so don't need a
> massive monthy allowance, though I guess Google Maps is fairly
> data intensive(...?)
>
> I would prefer a fixed price for specific amount of
> minutes/texts deal, like I have now, rather than paying for what
> I use, but if the total monthly bill is roughly the same, not
> THAT bothered. Don't usually use all the minutes/texts the
> Virgin give me, a deal with 150 of each would probably be
> plenty...
>
> 3 seems to have the best/cheapest deals, but my (new)phone is
> not 3G, and don't think I'll get a decent replacement phone
> without either paying or choosing a higher tariff than I need.
Depends on what you call "decent"; I'm on the lowest 3 tier (I think
-- £15 for 300 mins-or-texts), and that included a Nokia N73 that
seems really quite OK.
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Cheers,
Harvey
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| ChrisM 2008-02-20, 10:33 am |
| In message Xns9A4AA26C8F4Cwhhva
ns@news.albasani.net,
HVS < usenet@REMOVETHISwhh
vs.co.uk> Proclaimed from the tallest tower:
> On 20 Feb 2008, ChrisM wrote
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> Depends on what you call "decent"; I'm on the lowest 3 tier (I think
> -- £15 for 300 mins-or-texts), and that included a Nokia N73 that
> seems really quite OK.
Does that include any data though?
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Regards,
Chris.
(Remove Elvis's shoes to email me)
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| On 20 Feb 2008, ChrisM wrote
> In message Xns9A4AA26C8F4Cwhhva
ns@news.albasani.net,
> HVS < usenet@REMOVETHISwhh
vs.co.uk> Proclaimed from the tallest
> tower:
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> Does that include any data though?
No, it doesn't.
There's a range of add-ons -- £2.50/month for 10MB, or £5/month for
"all" you want (with fair use, conditions and terms apply, yada-yada,
etc); I've just started with them, though, and am waiting for a
month or so to get a handle on what I'm using before I decide which
add-on to add-on.
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Cheers,
Harvey
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| ChrisM 2008-02-20, 10:33 am |
| In message Xns9A4AA4F4C395Cwhhv
ans@news.albasani.net,
HVS < usenet@REMOVETHISwhh
vs.co.uk> Proclaimed from the tallest tower:
> On 20 Feb 2008, ChrisM wrote
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> No, it doesn't.
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> There's a range of add-ons -- £2.50/month for 10MB, or £5/month for
> "all" you want (with fair use, conditions and terms apply, yada-yada,
> etc); I've just started with them, though, and am waiting for a
> month or so to get a handle on what I'm using before I decide which
> add-on to add-on.
Thanks for the info, that sounds just about what I need, but it's with '3'
and the phone I just bought (W610i) is not a 3G phone. I suppose I could
sell the SE and get a new phone on '3', but I don't really NEED another new
phone... I like my new SE, it does everything I want, and is very compact
and light...
Anyone know any similarly decent deals on any of the other networks?
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Regards,
Chris.
(Remove Elvis's shoes to email me)
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"HVS" < usenet@REMOVETHISwhh
vs.co.uk> wrote in message
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Cwhhvans@news.albasani.net...
> On 20 Feb 2008, ChrisM wrote
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> No, it doesn't.
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> There's a range of add-ons -- £2.50/month for 10MB, or £5/month for
> "all" you want (with fair use, conditions and terms apply, yada-yada,
> etc);
I hope that was a typo and you mean 10GB.
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| On 20 Feb 2008, Andy wrote
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> "HVS" < usenet@REMOVETHISwhh
vs.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:Xns9A4AA4F4C395
Cwhhvans@news.albasani.net...
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> I hope that was a typo and you mean 10GB.
On a mobile *phone* network? For £2.50?
Not, as Eliza Doolittle said, bloody likely!
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"HVS" < usenet@REMOVETHISwhh
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> On 20 Feb 2008, Andy wrote
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> On a mobile *phone* network? For £2.50?
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> Not, as Eliza Doolittle said, bloody likely!
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What good is 10MB? that's about 2 webpages and a email a day.
For the same price on Three's PAYG I get one weeks surfing and 500MB of
data, the £5 option is one month and 2GB of data.
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