what really grinds my gears

MediumRoastSteam No. I don’t think so.

The business name can be your name. Earlier, I had a proper business account under my company name. Not anymore. I switched from my company registered after moving home in 2015.

Please give sales a call and tell them you need xyz service. They will ask your details. Just give your name as the name of the business.

Also, check the retail site.

I feel for you, Cupra. I mean, years ago, who cared (except those, like me, whose business depended on it)? But these days it’s getting harder and harder to just run our normal lives without ’net access. For instance, reluctant though I am (and believe me, thats VERY reluctant) to do banking online, despite the convenience, it’s now bordering on impossible, and inconvenient as hell, to avoid. After all the branch closures, I think my nearest actual bank branh is on a tiny outer planet round a minor star in a far distant galaxy, behind a giant midden heap, in the 3rd floor sub-basement behind the door marked “beware carnivorous plants, and the dragon” (nod to blatant rip-off of HHGTTG).

Which is why the last couple of times I’ve changed, I’ve ordered the new service and only AFTER it’s up and running do I give notice to the old.

And yes, obviously, that means at least one month, maybe more, paying for both. Which puts a large portion of sand down the front of my swimming trunks, but overall was worth it. The money I mean, not the sand. But it does ensure not ending up without service entirely if, for any reason, they don’t install when they promise. It’s worth it (to me, YMMV) to do that.

MediumRoastSteam If gig BB is £60 inc VAT on the retail, it is worth it should there be a need.

DavecUK that’s not a data plan, that’s making it look as if you have a data plan 🤣

My mobile plan is to plan on not using mobile data … unless I really have to. Like when I set up to fly the drone. Come to think about it, that’s about the only time, ’cos I need location services turned on for auto-return. Everything else gets done via wifi.

But then, my plan for the mobile is it’s for little more than emergency contact, in or out, on an almost cost-less PAYG plan …. or Don’t-PAYG, in my case. Maybe Barely-PAYG.

Tight git? Wot, me? 😄

Cuprajake This pay deal reminds of the rough treatment our government has given to the Jr Doctors. These Jr doctors have been excluded from the recent pay deal of 5% to all medical professionals They just got 2% before Covid. One stays as junior doctor unless become a consultant. It’s not only joke and an insult to these tens of thousands of junior doctors who work tirelessly day and night to save our lives. Add the selfless service these guys since Covid, it is really rubbing salt in the wound.

It gets better.

• Another profession that gets insulted. Their pay was literally frozen since Mr Cameron became the PM and since then are being given 1% pay hike in between.
• A few years ago, the government allowed the universities to double the graduate medicine intake from 20 to 40 - since 2020 I think. The common sense would be to open up / create additional jobs in the NHS. No, why would we? We keep the job vacancies constant and make the extra (newly qualified) doctors sit at home, deny critical foundational trainings and leave them high and dry searching for a locum jobs.
• Why wouldn’t the NHS and the teaching profession be in a mess that we have created on our own?

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The current mess we are all in is going to require a divine intervention, if there is one. We need to save a few pounds here and there so that we can surrender them to the energy companies at a stratosphere rate!

PortafilterProcrastinator Don’t you have Virgin? Not necessarily cheaper but steady and stable.

If this is possible, you can rod of the Land line.

DavecUK i.smarty.co.uk/pP891J

Who are these guys? Never heard them before. I think it is powered by 3. The £18 tariff is a good deal.

My wife is with 3, who gets about 20GB for a tenner. Myself and my daughter are with o2. We pay £16.86 for 25G and £21.86 for 120G respectively. Super stable and excellent coverage even in remote places. I would hesitate to change, especially my daughter’s as her mobile is business critical in her daily doctors’ job. The last thing we need is a lack of coverage when she is at the hospital. :-)

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Their coverage in the UK

LMSC Smarty uses the 3 Network, I have the right old git plan….£6 per month with 1 GB data, but £1 back if you don’t use any data. So for me £5 per month, as many calls and texts as I want and free roaming across Europe.. I can even text people in UK when roaming. You could change and notice no difference.