Recommend me a cheap pay monthly tariff with free phone?

Can you help me?

I don't want a contract for more than 12 months and looking to pay under £15
per month.

Thanks

"Steven" <skint4sure@skint4sure.adsl24.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Can you help me?
> I don't want a contract for more than 12 months and looking to pay under
> £15 per month.
> Thanks
3 have some £12 and £15 pm tariffs,
and the 3 network is now what it should have been

IMHO 3 are the new Orange
i.e. "Innovative"

Now if 3 could only be persuaded to offer Line2,
and at a reduced rate ;-)

The Futures Bright the Futures 3

Steve Terry

Steve Terry <gFOURwwk@tesco.net> wrote:

> "Steven" <skint4sure@skint4sure.adsl24.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:fo0aci$13vo$1@energise.enta.net...
> > Can you help me?
> > I don't want a contract for more than 12 months and looking to pay under
> > £15 per month.
> > Thanks
> 3 have some £12 and £15 pm tariffs,
> and the 3 network is now what it should have been
>
> IMHO 3 are the new Orange
> i.e. "Innovative"
>
> Now if 3 could only be persuaded to offer Line2,
> and at a reduced rate ;-)
>
> The Futures Bright the Futures 3

Just been looking at the Three site....

You'd probably know the answer to this.

If you're out of range of a Three cell and roaming on Orange, do you
still get data access?


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"SteveH" <steve@italiancar.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Steve Terry <gFOURwwk@tesco.net> wrote:
>> "Steven" <skint4sure@skint4sure.adsl24.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:fo0aci$13vo$1@energise.enta.net...
<snip>
> Just been looking at the Three site....
> You'd probably know the answer to this.
> If you're out of range of a Three cell and roaming on Orange,
> do you still get data access?
>
Yes, but at much slower 2G rate of maybe 40kbs which is about 10 times
slower,
and maybe 50 times slower than a 3 cell with new 3.5G HSDPA added.

Steve Terry

"SteveH" <steve@italiancar.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1ibnq4h.uj5xdt1jnqf92N%steve@italiancar.co.uk ...
> Steve Terry <gFOURwwk@tesco.net> wrote:
>
>> "Steven" <skint4sure@skint4sure.adsl24.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:fo0aci$13vo$1@energise.enta.net...
>> > Can you help me?
>> > I don't want a contract for more than 12 months and looking to pay
>> > under
>> > £15 per month.
>> > Thanks
>> 3 have some £12 and £15 pm tariffs,
>> and the 3 network is now what it should have been
>>
>> IMHO 3 are the new Orange
>> i.e. "Innovative"
>>
>> Now if 3 could only be persuaded to offer Line2,
>> and at a reduced rate ;-)
>>
>> The Futures Bright the Futures 3
>
> Just been looking at the Three site....
>
> You'd probably know the answer to this.
>
> If you're out of range of a Three cell and roaming on Orange, do you
> still get data access?
>
>
>

If you press the "Planet 3" button (ie. Threes mobile homepage) you get a
message saying "You are outside the video service area", and get reduced
options. however if you point your phones browser to a normal www. website,
it works...

Steve Terry <gFOURwwk@tesco.net> wrote:

> "SteveH" <steve@italiancar.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:1ibnq4h.uj5xdt1jnqf92N%steve@italiancar.co.uk ...
> > Steve Terry <gFOURwwk@tesco.net> wrote:
> >> "Steven" <skint4sure@skint4sure.adsl24.co.uk> wrote in message
> >> news:fo0aci$13vo$1@energise.enta.net...
> <snip>
> > Just been looking at the Three site....
> > You'd probably know the answer to this.
> > If you're out of range of a Three cell and roaming on Orange,
> > do you still get data access?
> >
> Yes, but at much slower 2G rate of maybe 40kbs which is about 10 times
> slower,
> and maybe 50 times slower than a 3 cell with new 3.5G HSDPA added.

Hmmm, so you don't get to roam on the Orange 3G network, then?

That doesn't sound a lot better than Web & Walk Plus to me.


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"SteveH" <steve@italiancar.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Steve Terry <gFOURwwk@tesco.net> wrote:
>
>> "SteveH" <steve@italiancar.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:1ibnq4h.uj5xdt1jnqf92N%steve@italiancar.co.uk ...
>> > Steve Terry <gFOURwwk@tesco.net> wrote:
>> >> "Steven" <skint4sure@skint4sure.adsl24.co.uk> wrote in message
>> >> news:fo0aci$13vo$1@energise.enta.net...
>> <snip>
>> > Just been looking at the Three site....
>> > You'd probably know the answer to this.
>> > If you're out of range of a Three cell and roaming on Orange,
>> > do you still get data access?
>> >
>> Yes, but at much slower 2G rate of maybe 40kbs which is about 10 times
>> slower,
>> and maybe 50 times slower than a 3 cell with new 3.5G HSDPA added.
>
> Hmmm, so you don't get to roam on the Orange 3G network, then?
>
Nope but 3 have done a deal with T Mobile to roam each others 3G
>
> That doesn't sound a lot better than Web & Walk Plus to me.
>
T Mobile web and walk is a better deal for those who want big downloads

3's deal is cheaper for moderate data users
i.e emails and web browsing

Steve Terry

In article <fo0aci$13vo$1@energise.enta.net>,
skint4sure@skint4sure.adsl24.co.uk says...
> Can you help me?
>
> I don't want a contract for more than 12 months and looking to pay under £15
> per month.

Good luck.
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Regards
Jon

In article <fo0due$ump$1@aioe.org>, gFOURwwk@tesco.net says...
> "SteveH" <steve@italiancar.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:1ibnq4h.uj5xdt1jnqf92N%steve@italiancar.co.uk ...
> > Steve Terry <gFOURwwk@tesco.net> wrote:
> >> "Steven" <skint4sure@skint4sure.adsl24.co.uk> wrote in message
> >> news:fo0aci$13vo$1@energise.enta.net...
> <snip>
> > Just been looking at the Three site....
> > You'd probably know the answer to this.
> > If you're out of range of a Three cell and roaming on Orange,
> > do you still get data access?
> >
> Yes, but at much slower 2G rate of maybe 40kbs which is about 10 times
> slower,
> and maybe 50 times slower than a 3 cell with new 3.5G HSDPA added.

Orange only provide the 3G backup coverage, not 2G. The 2G backup is
still provided by O2 AFAIK.
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Regards
Jon

On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 07:23:59 -0000, Jon <spam@jonparker.plus.com>
wrote:

>> > Just been looking at the Three site....
>> > You'd probably know the answer to this.
>> > If you're out of range of a Three cell and roaming on Orange,
>> > do you still get data access?
>> >
>> Yes, but at much slower 2G rate of maybe 40kbs which is about 10 times
>> slower,
>> and maybe 50 times slower than a 3 cell with new 3.5G HSDPA added.
>
>Orange only provide the 3G backup coverage, not 2G. The 2G backup is
>still provided by O2 AFAIK.

At home I've got no 3G coverage and no o2 coverage so it used to be a
real pain but since they swapped to roaming with Orange I have
excellent 2G.
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On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 23:35:01 -0000, "Steven"
<skint4sure@skint4sure.adsl24.co.uk> wrote:

>Can you help me?
>
>I don't want a contract for more than 12 months and looking to pay under £15
>per month.

"I want the moon on a stick"

Having a rummage around the networks on www.mobileshop.com might be
helpful.

www.e2save.com or www.carphonewarehouse.com also list similar stuff.

Have fun.
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Steven <skint4sure@skint4sure.adsl24.co.uk> wrote:
> Can you help me?
>
> I don't want a contract for more than 12 months and looking to pay under
> ?15 per month.

Don't know if they're still doing it, but if you already have another
service from Virgin Media (landline, broadband or TV) you could add a mobile
contract for a tenner a month. It's occasionally 300mins/300texts per
month, but often drops back down to 100/100. Don't know the term, but I
think it just goes with the timing of your existing VM service contract.

Otherwise you could try looking at one of the pseudo-contracts on PAYG. This
is where you topup more than XX pounds per month and get cheaper
calls/inclusive texts/etc etc. You usually don't get any free mins, but
your XX pounds can be used to pay for the calls/texts etc. This might work
out better than a XX pound a month contract, especially if you call
non-inclusive numbers (0845 etc). I haven't been paying attention to what
all the networks offer, but I think Tesco Extra is one.

Theo

"Jon" <spam@jonparker.plus.com> wrote in message
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> In article <fo0due$ump$1@aioe.org>, gFOURwwk@tesco.net says...
>> "SteveH" <steve@italiancar.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:1ibnq4h.uj5xdt1jnqf92N%steve@italiancar.co.uk ...
>> > Steve Terry <gFOURwwk@tesco.net> wrote:
>> >> "Steven" <skint4sure@skint4sure.adsl24.co.uk> wrote in message
>> >> news:fo0aci$13vo$1@energise.enta.net...
>> <snip>
>> > Just been looking at the Three site....
>> > You'd probably know the answer to this.
>> > If you're out of range of a Three cell and roaming on Orange,
>> > do you still get data access?
>> >
>> Yes, but at much slower 2G rate of maybe 40kbs which is about 10 times
>> slower,
>> and maybe 50 times slower than a 3 cell with new 3.5G HSDPA added.
>
> Orange only provide the 3G backup coverage, not 2G. The 2G backup is
> still provided by O2 AFAIK.
> Regards
> Jon
>
O2 used to provide 2G roaming for 3, but 3 moved new customers
over to Orange and have now moved all the old ones as well.
(except for a handful of exceptions which can't get Orange 2G)

3 have just done a deal with T Mobile to roam 3G
on each others networks.
So has Orange and Vodafone, leaving O2 out in the cold

Steve Terry

"boulder" <newsgroups@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Surely, the only answer is one of the new O2 simplicity tarrffs...eg one
> month contract, £15, 200min/200 text. Nothing better out there
Of course there is, 3 will give a choice of phones like a 6120 with
mix&match 300 mins/text, and 300 on net mins + free Skype,
and free voicemail, for £15 a month

Personally I would go for the Nokia 6120 as it is 3 Skype
compatible, and has HSDPA data which I would use connected to my laptop

Check out any 3 shop or a CPW, I would go for the 3 deal at a CPW
as there's chance CPW might supply the phone as GSM stock and unlocked

Steve Terry

> Of course there is, 3 will give a choice of phones like a 6120 with
> mix&match 300 mins/text, and 300 on net mins + free Skype,
> and free voicemail, for £15 a month
>

The OP specifically asks for 12 months duration, not 18