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Is Sainsbury's Free Sim At 8P A Minute Calls And 4P Per Text Good Value
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It's quite a decent deal and rather less complicated than the way that some other supermarket mobile phone deals work. For example, Tesco charges 25p per minute, which initially looks far more expensive. However if you buy £10 worth of credit, they give you a further £20 worth free, which means that you (theoretical
01:19 Tue 12th Aug 2014
It's quite a decent deal and rather less complicated than the way that some other supermarket mobile phone deals work. For example, Tesco charges 25p per minute, which initially looks far more expensive. However if you buy £10 worth of credit, they give you a further £20 worth free, which means that you (theoretically) only pay one third of the advertised price per minute, making it about the same as Sainsbury's tariff.
However there's a catch with Tesco's system because, while the £10 credit you actually bought doesn't expire, the £20 that you're given for free only lasts 30 days (on a 'use it or lose it' basis). So, if you don't use your phone a lot, you might never get to use the free credit and simply pay 25p per minute anyway.
To complicate matters further though, there's a 'Tesco PAYG Lite' tariff buried deep on their website and it appears that users can swap to that instead of using the regular PAYG tariff and getting free credit. Guess what? The 'Lite' tariff is just the same as Sainsbury's anyway!
Asda has a complex system of 'bundles' (again with a 30-day expiry period) that you can buy using credit already on your phone but you're not compelled to use them. If you simply buy credit as normal (and don't then go on to buy bundles) you'll pay exactly the same as you do with Sainsbury's for calls and texts:
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(The standard tariff is at the foot of the page).
In general, you get a better rate through supermarkets than you do by going directly to the providers which actually run the phone networks. (Asda used Vodafone to run their mobile phone service up until recently; they now use EE. Tesco mobile is actually O2 rebranded. Sainsbury's use Vodafone). But the rates charged by the supermarkets are basically the same as each other (although Tesco requires users to switch to the 'Lite' tariff to get those rates).
If you live in (or regularly visit) a poor reception area for one, or more, mobile operators, then you need to think about that when deciding which service to use. For example, if there's no EE signal at your location, avoid Asda Mobile. If Vodafone won't work where you are, avoid Sainsbury's Mobile.
However there's a catch with Tesco's system because, while the £10 credit you actually bought doesn't expire, the £20 that you're given for free only lasts 30 days (on a 'use it or lose it' basis). So, if you don't use your phone a lot, you might never get to use the free credit and simply pay 25p per minute anyway.
To complicate matters further though, there's a 'Tesco PAYG Lite' tariff buried deep on their website and it appears that users can swap to that instead of using the regular PAYG tariff and getting free credit. Guess what? The 'Lite' tariff is just the same as Sainsbury's anyway!
Asda has a complex system of 'bundles' (again with a 30-day expiry period) that you can buy using credit already on your phone but you're not compelled to use them. If you simply buy credit as normal (and don't then go on to buy bundles) you'll pay exactly the same as you do with Sainsbury's for calls and texts:
https:/
(The standard tariff is at the foot of the page).
In general, you get a better rate through supermarkets than you do by going directly to the providers which actually run the phone networks. (Asda used Vodafone to run their mobile phone service up until recently; they now use EE. Tesco mobile is actually O2 rebranded. Sainsbury's use Vodafone). But the rates charged by the supermarkets are basically the same as each other (although Tesco requires users to switch to the 'Lite' tariff to get those rates).
If you live in (or regularly visit) a poor reception area for one, or more, mobile operators, then you need to think about that when deciding which service to use. For example, if there's no EE signal at your location, avoid Asda Mobile. If Vodafone won't work where you are, avoid Sainsbury's Mobile.
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