ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I'm now using giffgaff and am finding it very good. I used to be on Orange and struggled to get a good signal. The gg network piggybacks on O2 and there is a good signal for voice/texts here. (Data is useless but I use wifi for that and it might be okay for data when travelling.)
If you top up by £10 at least every 3 months then you get calls and texts free to other gg users. I got the 2 people I contact most to transfer to gg (both parties got £5 credit for signing up and I got 2 x £5 for recommending them) so I am hardly using my credit and it is mounting up. Eventually I will use it to buy data goodybags for holidays, but credit does dribble out slowly when I contact non-gg members.
You need to be okay taking an active interest in managing your account. I had a slight difficulty getting my friend's phone activated when somebody at the other end clearly mistyped her activation code. I gave up trying to get their agent to understand the problem and fixed it by typing in the wrong code myself. Then I had problems collecting my £5 because they checked against the original! Once everything is working, it seems as good as any other network.
Data usage ... for everything except music and video, I used 1.25 GB in the last week on my Galaxy Tab though most of my browsing is done on my laptop. Watching streaming HD video about 1GB an hour! I have used 14 GB watching the Giro in the past week or so.
TBH, if you are going for data, you might as well get unlimited for £12 a month unless the extra few £ really matters. If you go over your limit then it rapidly becomes very expensive so it is a false economy if there is any risk of you doing that!
As usual, 'unlimited' isn't! There is a fair usage limit which is about 1GB an hour, 3 GB a day, 30 GB a month, whichever you hit first. For normal use, that would be plenty.
When goodybag quotas are hit, you drop back to normal PAYG, which is cheap as far as that goes - 6p/text, 10p/min. When the month is up, you can buy another goodybag. I didn't cover the cost of my first goodybag because of my free falls/texts so I am currently using about £1.50 a month on PAYG and am up to £22 on my credit from the quarterly £10 payments plus bonuses.
Oh, and gg have a user forum where you can earn points for helping out. These can be exchanged for cash or credit a couple of times a year.
If you top up by £10 at least every 3 months then you get calls and texts free to other gg users. I got the 2 people I contact most to transfer to gg (both parties got £5 credit for signing up and I got 2 x £5 for recommending them) so I am hardly using my credit and it is mounting up. Eventually I will use it to buy data goodybags for holidays, but credit does dribble out slowly when I contact non-gg members.
You need to be okay taking an active interest in managing your account. I had a slight difficulty getting my friend's phone activated when somebody at the other end clearly mistyped her activation code. I gave up trying to get their agent to understand the problem and fixed it by typing in the wrong code myself. Then I had problems collecting my £5 because they checked against the original! Once everything is working, it seems as good as any other network.
Data usage ... for everything except music and video, I used 1.25 GB in the last week on my Galaxy Tab though most of my browsing is done on my laptop. Watching streaming HD video about 1GB an hour! I have used 14 GB watching the Giro in the past week or so.
TBH, if you are going for data, you might as well get unlimited for £12 a month unless the extra few £ really matters. If you go over your limit then it rapidly becomes very expensive so it is a false economy if there is any risk of you doing that!
As usual, 'unlimited' isn't! There is a fair usage limit which is about 1GB an hour, 3 GB a day, 30 GB a month, whichever you hit first. For normal use, that would be plenty.
When goodybag quotas are hit, you drop back to normal PAYG, which is cheap as far as that goes - 6p/text, 10p/min. When the month is up, you can buy another goodybag. I didn't cover the cost of my first goodybag because of my free falls/texts so I am currently using about £1.50 a month on PAYG and am up to £22 on my credit from the quarterly £10 payments plus bonuses.
Oh, and gg have a user forum where you can earn points for helping out. These can be exchanged for cash or credit a couple of times a year.
again. There so much choice I don't know what's what. I miss the days of post-brick mobile phones.
