iPhone UK: The Alternative Monthly Contracts

[bigandy]

its not contract its pay and go. but you can get a decent stretch tariff that works better than a contract to some point - ur getting more mins and texts than normal pay n go from other netowkrs but without a contract to sign.

its like 12p flat rate cross network and to landlines and texts are like 10p, you get free skype calls and free voicemail too.

various different plans starting from £12 a month which gives you 100 units which u can split between mins and txts - mix & match its called, the most you can get is £21 for 700 units - you also get 300 3-to-3 minutes aswell


http://three.co.uk/personal/price_plans_/pay_as_you_go_/what_it_costs.omp

and a 2gb internet addon for £5. bargainous.

that sounds sweet.

i'm tempted by pay&go if the 3sim does work then, and the allowance is 2gb.

you've definately got it fine on your iphone then? i'm confused as to why the pay and go card works but the contract one doesn't

 

[shurmin]

yeh im goin with the

15pound sim only o2 deal,
200mins 400txts
with web bolt on 7.50
22.50/month

200mb a month fair usage, so 6.5 mb a day, not good, but will use wifi most of the time, so will have to gage how much i use gprs/edge when ive used it 4 a couple of months.

no minimum contract on the deal either, so if a new iphone comes out end of next year will get it and no worries bout a contract.

just hoping everything goes alright when i unlock it and it accepts the o2 sim, am i right in assuming you jailbreak/unlock with the o2 sim that comes with the iphone, then when all is done pop in the sim u want and hey presto?

 

[sweetice2007]

that sounds sweet.

i'm tempted by pay&go if the 3sim does work then, and the allowance is 2gb.

you've definately got it fine on your iphone then? i'm confused as to why the pay and go card works but the contract one doesn't

they are different sim types, the pay n go sim cards work 2g as well as 3g dependent on the handset type - double check with the purple packed sims though since they might differ - try get the white pack simcards from either a 3store - online - or from superdrug since they sell them too.

yep wrks just fine havent had any probs since i got it which was back in september ;-)

 

[bigandy]

they are different sim types, the pay n go sim cards work 2g as well as 3g dependent on the handset type - double check with the purple packed sims though since they might differ - try get the white pack simcards from either a 3store - online - or from superdrug since they sell them too.

yep wrks just fine havent had any probs since i got it which was back in september ;-)

nice

i'm going to pick one o'them up methinks

what are speeds like on it? I know 3 hooks on to Orange and O2 for pre-3G services, so should pick up EDGE quite a bit...?

 

[XIII]

That's a pretty good deal with 3. But are you saying if I signed up for a contract with them, so I could sell the phone to contribute to my iPhone cost, the sim wouldn't work anymore? Shame. It's just, on PAYG with 3, I will have to pay about £30 a month anyway including the internet access to have enough minutes and texts - so I'm not gaining a lot over using the official contracts really.

 

[sweetice2007]

nice

i'm going to pick one o'them up methinks

what are speeds like on it? I know 3 hooks on to Orange and O2 for pre-3G services, so should pick up EDGE quite a bit...?

yeah it uses orange's edge network - it works as fast as it can - picks it up well too! - but then again ive been on a 3g network for over a yr and starte dgetting hsdpa speeds recently on my contract so anything less is gonna be a pain in the ass for me lol...depends on what your on now if your on 2g anyway youll be fine adapting to that speed cos its better then gsm.. faster by around 40-60. ..ive signed up to the cloud this month for wifi but havent accessed any spots yet grr but yeah...

 

[sweetice2007]

That's a pretty good deal with 3. But are you saying if I signed up for a contract with them, so I could sell the phone to contribute to my iPhone cost, the sim wouldn't work anymore? Shame. It's just, on PAYG with 3, I will have to pay about £30 a month anyway including the internet access to have enough minutes and texts - so I'm not gaining a lot over using the official contracts really.

yep its pretty crap how the contract sims wont work in the iphone since ihave 2 cntracts with them but ah well im getting better rates even running it off a pay n go sim so im not overly fussed to be honest. id rather have it on pay n go as opposed to paying o2 £35 a month since im getting 750 minutes and 150 txts from 3 for £22.50 and the other one for £17.50 even when i had the £5 add on it was less than £35 and i was gettin alot more ... jus depends on the individual - o2 give crap retentions too - or they did with my sis anyway a few week ago! she cancelled with them