1p Mobile

dfk41

I have just moved my wife over to this bunch. Her phone is just there for emergency use and only has 2 numbers in it. I was paying £6 pm with GiffGaff who I am also with and am very happy using. With 1p, you add £10 which lasts 120 days before needing re-charged. Costs are 1p a minute, 1p a text, 1p per MB of data.

They also do another plan @ £36 per annum which gives free calls and texts plus 250 MB of data per month and if you exceed that, then you have guessed it, 1p a minute.

I switched my better half’s sim over yesterday, following the instructions on their website. Easy peasy! I then started the PAC process which again was automated and easy. With Xmas, it gave me a date of January 4th for the swap.

Now my question, is does anyone have good or bad experience of them. On Trustpilot on 15,000 odd reviews, 5% are 1% and seem to mainly revolve around customer service in the run up to and over Xmas. I am not going to learn much from my wife’s account as she has never made a call yet. The website is clear and works well! I still make a few calls and plenty of texts and Whatsaps but the prospect of reducing my mobile down from £72 to £36 is tempting!

Gagaryn

Really depends on usage habits. For light users or those mainly connected to wifi and making few calls or texts that sounds ideal. For those using mobile data regularly 250MB is nothing and 1p per MB above that allowance will get expensive very quickly - stating the obvious but that’s £10 a GB.

If your usage is even moderate you’re probably better off on a cheap contract. I’m with EE on a retention deal - £6 a month for unlimited calls and texts and 20GB of data. That would be £200 a month at 1p per MB!

dfk41

Gagaryn I did say that in all the time my wife has had her phone she has not made a call. It is just there for emergencies and if an emergency happens, the cost of the call will not be important

With regards to myself, I am retired and in the house on wifi most of the time. I hate all phones and now I am not in business only use it for calls and texts. I can live without data access when out and always have the emergency 250 mb’s to dig in to

Gagaryn

dfk41 I did say that in all the time my wife has had her phone she has not made a call. It is just there for emergencies and if an emergency happens,

I did say that for such uses cases this sounds ideal. :-)

dfk41

Gagaryn We agree Giphy - Penguin Yes GIF by Pudgy Penguins

RickO88

I’ve been using 1p mobile for at least 4 months. £7.50 per month, which includes unlimited calls and texts, 4GB data & WiFi calling. Absolutely no problems at all.

DavecUK

RickO88 I’ve been using 1p mobile for at least 4 months. £7.50 per month, which includes unlimited calls and texts, 4GB data & WiFi calling. Absolutely no problems at all.

I use Smarty and pay £5 per month for 4GB data, unlimited calls and texts, plus free EU roaming, as if I am in the UK for calls and data.

e.g. in Italy I can just use my phone normally and unbelievably call Italian and UK numbers within the plan. I think being able to call the UK is a new thing as a few years ago, I could call a UK number in Italy, but not one ion the UK.

dfk41

DavecUK The roaming thing is not a consideration for me (I do not have a passport!). I spend 99% of my time within my wifi range so 250mb data per month should cover my needs. If I am at the doctors surgery and really have to check BBC sports then if I have no data it is 1p per mb. On the plus side though, if I pay in advance it is £36 pa compared to £72 pa with Giffgaff……whats not to like?

Gagaryn

dfk41 The roaming thing is not a consideration for me (I do not have a passport!).

For others contemplating, 1p mobile include roaming within their plans in exactly the same way as Smarty do. 1p mobile looks to be the best value of the low cost MVNO’s.

steve_07

I use 1p mobile. £10 a month for unlimited mins and texts, 25GB data i think which renews monthly.

Really happy with the signal and the 5g is comparable to my partners EE business plan. I have used the roaming in Finland with no issues.

Was with Lebara before but for my area 1p is better. No regrets.

RickO88

Should have added: 1p mobile uses ee network so same coverage and roaming included.

MediumRoastSteam

Im currently on Three pay as you go, and I pay £10 for 10GB data, and unlimited texts and calls. It used to be 4GB but they have upgraded since. I’m not a big data user when out anyway, so it’s pretty pointless these days.

The reason why I’m still with them was mainly because of roaming in and outside of the EU. I used to travel to the US and EU quite often so that made sense. Not so much these days, Maybe I should look elsewhere, so thanks for the recommendations chaps!

DavecUK

MediumRoastSteam The reason why I’m still with them was mainly because of roaming in and outside of the EU. I used to travel to the US and EU quite often so that made sense. Not so much these days, Maybe I should look elsewhere, so thanks for the recommendations chaps!

My smarty deal is £5 monthly, unlimited texTs and calls, EU Roaming, I can even call Italy and UK mobile/fixed line numbers (wherever they are) when roaming within my plan! it comes with 4GGB data (which also roams)

dfk41

Well, I have just ordered the £36 per annum sim. It seems that those who responded seemed positive. I have been perfectly happy with GiffGaff although they do not do wifi calling and sometimes at my house the reception is iffy. So, the SIM will turn up and when it does, I will start the porting process. I have had the same number since 1998 and want to keep it

MediumRoastSteam

dfk41 it’s a good idea to keep the mobile number. Lots of security and identity checks rely on sending a text to the registered number.

Cuprajake

Me the Mrs and oldest have talkmobile. 30day rolling, 30gb free txt calls etc that is £7.95 pm. Cancel anytime

We did have Plusnet mobile but they got bought out by EE and then contracts prices tripled

dfk41

MediumRoastSteam Yep, that is what I am going to do. I switched my wife over to them on Xmas day and the procedure is very easy. GiffGaff give you a PAC code immediately and the 1p website is so easy to navigate. I have just hd an email from them saying my own personal sim is in todays post so after the New Year I will port mine across as well….I will report back once everything has completed!

dfk41

Just an update to this thread. I joined them on Wednesday of last week and yesterday told them to naff off! The basic deal is ok, for me that was £36 pa for unlimited texts and calls. This came with a measly 250 mb per month of mobile data. Despite thinking i had switched mobile data off (I had) after 5 days I only had 85mb left. Then I realised that in order to stay afloat I had to add data at £3 for 10 gigs which lasted 30 days then was lost. I tried to engage with them but after a solid day of trying their phone number and emailing with no reply, I said sod it! Automatically requested a port number. I will try to recover the £36 they have taken but it is not worth pulling my hair out! So, did some research. I was with Giffgaff and always found them a pleasure to deal with. My only complaint was they did not support wifi calling and the room in which I sit the phone signal tends to drop in and out. Also 1p piggybacked EE and too late I found that they had had an outage in my post code for 3 years and not resolved it! So, GiffGaff ruled out I checked out SKy Mobile. I even rang them as they had half price data plans so it said. I said I do not want a half price plan. The one I was looking at was only a smallish amount of data but nope, all their plans double in price after 6 months making them very expensive.

Chatting to our host, he suggested a firm called Smarty piggybacking Three. So, I applied to them using a referral code Dave shared. The system took me right to the end before pointing out my email addy had already been in use with them and refusing to let me go down the referral route. So, I gave them another email address, subscribed and thought I would sort out the details later. SO, Smarty have no contact other than a Live Chat (Bot) or email. I exchanged 17 emails in the next 45 minutes with an idiot who judging by his grammar had failed CSE English. I asked if I could change the registered email addy once the sim was live…….no was the one word answer (I have the correct answer as a screenshot). I then asked how to get around the referral issue . Several emails were exchanged after which I said rowlocks……I am not prepared to use a company when if I wanted a conversation at such a level, a zoo visit would be in order. So, I told him to terminate my application (I had already given a pac code to them) and received back an email containing a link to terminate……nothing else!

So, there we are…….if you are happy with the colour of your grass, stick with it!

MediumRoastSteam

DavecUK - for I needed roaming outside of the EU, eg: US. But not anymore. £5 looks like a great deal indeed.

Cuprajake

Need to change the title to 3600p

dfk41

Cuprajake You live and learn, then a bit more!