Carol - I'm with T-Mobile on pay as you talk, and I have found it the best for non-contract. The website is easy to use for topping up and checking your useage. There are 3 pay as you talk tarifs to choose from, determined by how you use your phone; one is for mostly anytime calls, another is for mostly texting, and a third for those who's contacts are also T-Mobile users. For example, I am on the 'everyone' tarif, and pay 15P per minute to any network at any time, and I pay 10p per text; this works for me, as I call more than I text, but for those that mostly text, there is a tarif offering cheap texts but more expensive calls. Also at the moment [but of course this could change] T-Mobile on the tarif I'm on, are offering 20 percent bonus when I top up £50 within a 90 day period, which in effect, brings the cost of the calls per minute down to 12p. HTH - Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carol Pearson" <carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 6:56 AM Subject: [access-uk] Re: LOOKING TO CHANGE MY MOBILE PHONE PROVIDER | Thanks, Jackie. | | I am not too keen on going something like "Pay as you Talk" because of | having to keep topping up. (Don't want to run out at vital points.) Do you | find this to be a problem, or is monitoring and topping up just a breeze? | | -- | Carol | carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx | | | | | ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Jackie Cairns" <cairnsplace@xxxxxxx> | To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> | Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 9:56 PM | Subject: [access-uk] Re: LOOKING TO CHANGE MY MOBILE PHONE PROVIDER | | | > Hi Carol | > | > I'm sure you'll get a lot of input from users on this one. I can only | > speak for the Pay-As-You-Talk setup I have with Vodafone, which suits me | > well. I used to be with O2, but don't find their Customer Services team | > particularly obliging, and certainly not the store in our area. Vodafone, | > on the other hand, have always been helpful, even if they do claim to know | > a lot more about TALKS than is actually the case. (smile). | > | > I do know from my son's use of O2 that they charge from £25 per month for | > a SIM-only contract which you can opt out of after giving 30 days notice. | > But you may recall that young Ian didn't like this because he found it | > difficult to monitor the amount of texts and airtime he was using without | > speaking to them directly instead of calling an automated service. | > | > If you shop around, do one operator at a time because if you go from one | > to another, they will completely throw you it's that much of a minefield. | > It's a case of swings and roundabouts I'm afraid. What one offers you as | > a good deal, another will try to better it and maybe leave out something | > you liked from the first network. | > | > Oh happy hunting (smiles). | > | > Jackie | > | > Email: cairnsplace@xxxxxxx | > Skype Name: Cairnsplace | > ----- Original Message ----- | > From: "Carol Pearson" <carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> | > To: "Access UK Mailing List" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> | > Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 9:40 PM | > Subject: [access-uk] LOOKING TO CHANGE MY MOBILE PHONE PROVIDER | > | > | >> Hi all, | >> I'm not very happy with Orange right now and won't bore everyone with the | >> details... I'm wondering whether to return to 02 with which I was happy | >> for some years and only moved because we got a better deal for two of us. | >> I'm only looking for a low use tariff, with some occasional texts. 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