Lately Tmobile's signal quality has dropped through the floor not just for me, but friends and work mobile. So looking for options.

I'm excluding Giffgaff due to their regular issues and lack of a real person support infrastructure.

Currently pay £15/month for a 30 day plan including 300 mins and 500mb of data. I think unlimited texts too - not that I send stacks.

Looking around no one else seems to offer anything decent for this price?

I use Tesco Mobile and couldn't recommend them more highly especially as they run on O2's network.

http://shop.tescomobile.com/sim-only

£12.50/month gives

500 x-net anytime minutes

5000 sms

500mb data

1 month contract

You can also cap this so it wont allow you to go over without getting a paygo top up (useful for kids).

Customer service is good as well, unlike three.

You can get similar with Three - http://store.three.c...ice_Pay_Monthly - on a one month contract - SIM 300 gives 300 minutes, 3000 texts & 1Gb internet for £12 or £15 for the same but with 'all you can eat data'. I'm on the SIM 300 12 month which is just a tenner.

If I had been on a 30 day contract I might have switched at the weekend - bought SWMBO a TalkMobile 2 year contract with an HTC Wildfire S (she doesn't want a big or expensive phone) for £7.50 a month all in for 250 minutes, 5000 texts and 500Mb data.

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Oh, and Virgin do some similar 30 day £10 & £15 SIM only deals - http://www.virginmobile.com/vm/paymonthlySimOnly.do If you're a VM customer you can get a slightly better deal, but they couldn't touch the TalkMobile deal I got.

Edited 10 July, 201213 yr by dbg400

Used to be on o2 simplicity, but just had a Look and its way expensive now! Or you have to get a 12 month contract! When I was on it simplicity was just a 1 month rolling contract

Sent from my Galaxy S2 not a Crapple!

gullyg - been looking at Tesco Mobile. Just comparing out of plan costs now.

dbg400 - Who do Three now use for their 2g fall back? Is it still Orange? Is their coverage and penetration any better than it used to be?

dbg400 - Who do Three now use for their 2g fall back? Is it still Orange? Is their coverage and penetration any better than it used to be?

Doesn't Orange and T-Mobile use each other's masts now?

http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/share/?WT.mc_id=ON_QM_A_BuyAT_skimbit&WT.tsrc=Affiliate

If you're making a call on the T-Mobile network and you move into an area with no T-Mobile signal, your phone seamlessly switches to the Orange network (if it's available) so that means you should experience fewer dropped calls and more importantly - you'll keep talking!

Coverage is variable - we tend to go to the more rural places for holidays and reception hasn't been good indoors, though usually okay outside. SWMBOs old Nokia brickphone on O2 always gets reception, and our daughter (on VM) and I do get places where it drops out altogether. Worst was in Wales last year going to http://www.pistyllrhaeadr.co.uk/ where I lost the signal not long after leaving Llangollen and it didn't come back until we got close to the border again!

Doesn't Orange and T-Mobile use each other's masts now?

http://www.t-mobile.....tsrc=Affiliate

Yup they do, which is why they pulled the Tmobile mast nearby and left us with an Orange one that doesnt work in the house - which is why we moved to them for starters.

Tempted by Three's packages, but the poor coverage I keep hearing about puts me off.

http://www.three.co.uk/Support/Coverage does seem to be reasonably accurate, at least as far as the places I've been. Obviously not much good to you if you're in, or often visit, areas with poor coverage.

Three and tesco/O2 have a huge void in our area.

Looks like we're staying put with tmobile. :/

How about thinking outside of the box?

Ovivomobile well let you have a sim for a one off five quid that, if careful, will never need topping up. It really does work as well.

Ovivomobile well let you have a sim for a one off five quid that, if careful, will never need topping up. It really does work as well.

How's that work then ?

How's that work then ?

according to the FAQ's, with bad English and LOTS of ads whilst browsing :wonder:

Have been using GiffGaff for about 2 years now and have found it great, just double check where you live to make sure you will get 3G coverage.

GiffGaff

For £10 a month you get:

• 250 mins
  
• Ultd web
  
• Ultd texts
  
• Free to gg
  

For £15 a month you get:

• 400 UK minutes
  
• Unlimited UK texts
  
• Unlimited Internet
  
• Free to giffgaff
  

Edited 11 July, 201213 yr by joelk2010

I was going to suggest Tesco and you might even be better off with their PAYG option.

At the moment if I put in £10 they give me £30 credit. The 'free' £20 lasts for the month then drops off but essentially I get a months free credit.

If you put in £15 they'll give you £45 credit and 5Gb of data. The 'free' £30 and data will drop away at after a month again.

Edit- just read - "Three and tesco/O2 have a huge void in our area."

Sounds like you might be stuffed whomever you go with.

Edited 11 July, 201213 yr by Aspman

Vodafone had some reasonable SIM-only offers a while back - I got 150 minutes + 100Mb a month for £8 a month not long ago, which is enough for me.

How's that work then ?

It's not as bad as ljp makes out but you supposedly need a smart phone to view the ads that they start sending after every 2mb(?) of downloads. I've got one of their Sims in a spare phone and haven't seen any yet.

Can you really argue about 2400 minutes over a year for a fiver?

O2's fault again. O2 giving problems to Tesco, giffgaff et al.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/11/o2_giffgaff_network_issues/

I was fine till about 4pm but I'm offline at the moment.

Vodafone had some reasonable SIM-only offers a while back - I got 150 minutes + 100Mb a month for £8 a month not long ago, which is enough for me.

I used to eat over 2gb, now manage to cope with 500mb. 100mb would be gone in days.

I used to eat over 2gb, now manage to cope with 500mb. 100mb would be gone in days.

Fair enough - I don't us much data so it suits me and was the cheapest they did - they did have other offers though - that was just the one I remembered (for obvious reasons! )

How about a Sim Only 12 month (yes, i know the OP asked for 1 month) Orange Sim Only 7 plan.

£7 / month, sees you with 500 txt, 150 mins and 250 data - BUT, QuidCo are currently offering £30 cashback.

So, £84 is the total for a year - but with £30 cashback, comes in at £54.00, meaning it's equivilent to £4.50 / month. - You could have two or three SIM's and have more txts that you would ever need! ha!

Al.

ps. o2 / Tesco - Wouldn't have liked to have been a user of them for the past 24 hours....

I ditched Virgin some time ago, for both home phone & BB. My BB comes via a T mobile dongle, and I've found that Lycamobile do a free PAYG SIM with cals to landlines at 5p a min & most mobiles at 10p /min .Texts are 10p/text. That's a lot of minutes for 12 a month. Family, on Vody ,comes via PAYG family , up to 4 on list=£5 a month . Calls are only alowed for 60 mins ,before charges come in .

Edited 26 July, 201213 yr by VWD

Calls are only alowed for 60 mins ,before charges come in .

Hang up and start again I know a few people that have timers on their phones and re-dial at 59 minutes

Hang up and start again I know a few people that have timers on their phones and re-dial at 59 minutes

TBH- Last time I made calls that length, I wasn't footing the bill.

This http://m.hotukdeals.com/deals/new-tariff-virgin-30day-sim-only-1200-min-1gb-unltd-txts-12-1278232