1P Mobile??

[bainbrig]

Looking round for a cheaper PAYG SIM provider, having had bother with both Vodafone and EE/T Mobile, and came across 1pmobile, who want ten quid every 120 days, with phone charges of 1p per minute for texts, to mobiles, to landlines.

Sounds a good deal for a low-usage user like us - thirty quid a year. We spend far more with Vodafone and T Mobile (0.30 and 0.40p per minute respectively).

Any negatives?

Ta.

BB

[Mamyalynne]

https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.1pmobile.com

Some reviews.

[bainbrig]

Thanks mamya, the reviews look good. I'll leave it a few days to see if anyone else has opinions, then, what the heck, to be out of the clutches of Vodafone/EE will be a great relief...

Bill

[Mamyalynne]

I'm sure someone will have first hand knowledge, always the best way to find out.

[Buenchico]

I know nothing about that company but I can definitely recommend the one that I'm with: Asda Mobile.

They use the EE network, so you'd get the same coverage with Asda Mobile as you would with EE.

Their customer service is superb, with their phone lines answered instantly by friendly, knowledgeable staff (in the UK).

If you don't sign up to their 'bundles', you pay 8p per minute for calls and 4p for texts. (Non-bundle credit doesn't expire unless you don't make any chargeable calls for 180 days) .

If you only use your phone for emergencies, you could pay £5 per month for a 'bundle' providing 125 minutes of calls (plus 2000 texts and 250MB of data).

£7 per month would get you 300 minutes of calls (plus unlimited texts and 1GB of data). So that's an average of around 10 minutes per day of call charges included.

£10 per month, which is what you're considering paying anyway, would get you 600 minutes of calls (so that's around 20 minutes per day on average), together with unlimited texts and 3GB of data.

[There are also 'bundles' at £12, £15, £20 and £25 per month but I can't see that they'd be relevant to your needs. Although you don't currently use your smartphones for internet access, Asda's bundles would allow you to do so, with no extra costs, if you ever chose to do so. They even double up those data allowances if you set up regular payments from your bank].

https://mobile.asda.com/

[bainbrig]

Thanks Chris. As it happens, I set my partner on to the problem, and she's come up with 02, who charge about 3p per minute for a PAYG sim, but with NO contracted top-up fees at all, so if you use the phone as little as us, it'd work out to pence per week (at most!)

The Asda deal seems good, but not as good in comparison - I like the idea of talking English to people, though.


BillB

[bainbrig]

PS It wasn't ten quid a MONTH, but ten quid every 120 days!

[Giggsie]

I am with o2 I get unlimited texts , 1000 minutes call time and 1gb data for £7 a month.

[bainbrig]

Giggsie. So you have topay £7 a month whether you use it or not?

I was looking for a contract-free payg, where if you spend £0.03 a month, say, then that’s it!

[bainbrig]

Here's an interesting link providing details of different payg providers:

https://kenstechtips.com/index.php/compare-pay-as-you-go-networks

BB

[Giggsie]

Tesco or Asda just a pay and go sim just pay for what you use.

[TwisterUK]

We use a few 1P SIMs at work for development and testing purposes, so sometimes we go weeks without any usage being put on the SIMs and then we absolutely hammer them with test calls and data transfers. Never had any problems with them, other than the usual problem common to all PAYG SIMs where we sometimes forget to check the credit before the start of a test and run out halfway through... But reliability wise they're on a par with any other provider we've used, and the low cost/consistent pricing scheme makes it ideal for our needs