Some sick new deals from Tmobile UK. what you guys think bout it? I have already changed my tariff and I have kept my £10 loyalty discount till the end of my contract in June. For some reason though they wouldnt give me the Flext Refresh 35 so I opted for the next one up Flext Refresh 40. Its only 3 months to the end of my contract and I,ll twist their arms a likkle then.
http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/services/uk/flext-refresh/
example
Flext 35, now £180 of allowance.
Voicemail 20p p/m
International Calling to landlines 40p p/m
International calling to mobiles £1 p/m
International texts / mms 20p p/m
Certain 08 and 05 numbers will be charged at 40p per minute.
WnW 1GB
No calls to 0871
Only half of allowance can be used to make calls to 08 and international numbers
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I've got a few associates that will be traveling throughout Europe for a month. One has an SMT5600, which will only do 850/1800/1900. The other has no GSM phone yet, but could take a spare SMT5600.
How well will they be covered with just the 1800 band?
What's the most economical and sensible way for Americans to get Euro SIM cards? Do they need one for each country/area? Or for regions? Or one for all of Europe?
I cannot speak for all European countries, but in Holland, Belgium, France, Germany and Switzerland GSM 1800 is very reliable. Almost all new European telco's use the 1800 band, every country should have one or more providers that give good coverage in the 1800 band, like Telfort, Orange and T-Mobile in Holland. It is certainly the cheapest to buy a pre-paid sim for every country, since roaming charges are absurdly high. The down-side to so many sims is that you have to change them with every border you cross and you have a different number in each country...
Thanks, that's very useful info.
What's a typical cost on pre-paid SIM cards out there? In the US, the per-minute charges for pre-paid are pretty high. And what's the cost like for calls to the US? Astronimical? Reasonable?
As far as I can tell the T-Mobile German website has prepaid sims starting at 20 EUR. It looks like each minute of T-Mobile to T-Mobile calling or T-Mobile to German landline will cost about 0.50 EUR. I couldn't find the prices for inter-network or international calls.
As for the prices and calling costs for prepaid SIM's I can only speak for Holland. Typically, a Sim card with 15 euro worth of calling costs about 20 euro's, sometimes when on sale they cost only the amount you get with it, e.g. 15 euro's for a 15 euro credit. At the moment T-Mobile Netherlands (GSM 1800) sells pre-paid SIMs with 15 euro's credit for 9,95!
Calling costs about 35 cents per minute in Holland with a pre-paid SIM. There are three choices: Always the same costs. Whenever and whoever you call in Holland, you pay 35 cents per minute.
- Different costs: In peak hours 40 cents to anyone, in off-peak hours 20 cents to mobile, 10 cents to landlines.
- After three: peak hours 45 cents, after 15.00 you pay 20 cents to anyone, either mobile or landline.
Calling to the USA ( incl Hawaii and Alaska) is terribly expensive, with pre-paid you pay 75 cts per minute to either mobile or landline, with a start tarif of 7 cents.
Calling with a Dutch T-Mobile Pre-paid SIM in Western Europe and the USA costs between 0.95 and 1.10 euro's, depending on your roaming network. Calling in the rest of Europe costs 1.95 per minute.
As you see, roaming charges and itnernational calls are very expensive, therefor I woudl recommend to buy a different SIM for each country.
Hi All,
What is the best Pay as you go sim card deal in the UK? I just need a UK sim card for three weeks. I'm looking for the lowest upfront fee and then cheapest minutes. If it had some data capabilities that'd be good.
Cheers!
Asda mobile is cheap for calls 8p per min and 20p per meg for data the sim card cost 50p in asda stores.But if you use alot of data virgin have unlimited data (well 25mb) for 30p a day but the calls cos 15p per min.
If you know someone under 25, get them to get you a blyk simcard. They give you £15 credit a month without you ever even topping up, and all they do is send you a couple of advertising texts a month.
Only disadvantage is its not 3g
T-Mobile had one of the best PAYG data rates, think it was £2.50 for 5 days and sort of unlimited. Been contract for a while now so not sure if it's still current.
i was bored and was looking aroudn t-mobile uk and vodafone uk.
i found out that pretty much all their phones are free on contract (awesome)
and wireless plans are cheap as heck 60usd gets you 800 min, unlimited texts and internet 60 gets you half that here, if even (heck, it would cost you 35 bucks just to addon unlimited internet and texts)
but now heres where im perplexed, in the us we have unlimited nights and weekends on pretty much all plans and all networks, as well as in-network calling for free.
does that also exist in the uk and europe?
t-mobile used to have those evenings and weekends plans but they don't offer those anymore. Not too sure about Vodafone though.
Free evenings/weekend calls aren't as common on contracts as they used to be, partly due I guess to the increasing headline figure. It is however a releatively common perk on the pay-as-you-go circuit. Top up £x per month, and get free evening and weekend calls.
I can see the logic to it if you assume business users are predominantly on contracts and consumers on PAYG. The business user won't need his work phone out of hours (much), so no point offering unlimited off-peak when you don't have to, and will have their own phone for personal use anyway (part of why there are more mobiles than adults!). The home user is (hopefully!) engaged with work/school during the day, so makes few calls during this period, and if they're a heavy user off-peak, get that as a perk each month when they top up £x.
Also worth bearing in mind with any cross-ocean comparisons is "caller and recipient pay" there vs "caller only" pays here, so assuming an even split of incoming/outgoing calls, 100 minutes in the UK will get you as far as 200 minutes would in the US.
I get unlimited land-line calls on my orange contract - which means that my 800 minutes a month goes very far because only mobile phones come out of that pot.
I am currently looking for a prepaid cell phone option.
This phone is to just receive couple of forwarded phone calls a month.
I have a Motorola Razr from Sprint that I have sitting around. I would like nothing more than to use it as a prepaid phone instead of paying money for those bulky and ugly phones.
Is that a possibility?
Thank you all.
If your only gonna get limited calls tmobiles your best solution. You can pay $100 for 1150 minutes that last for 1 year. All other phones offer crap for prepay. You can also buy $10 for 30 minutes, $25 for 140 minutes, $50 for 400 minutes, or $100 for 1000 minutes but if you spend $100 you get 15% more minutes. The 10 25 and 50 dollar refills activate for 3 months, the 100 dollar card activates for 1 year. If you interested I know a great guy on ebay that owns a shop that can sell you a prepaid activation kit with sim card for like $8. You email him your ime number, plan, and area code and he activates it for you. Then you can just get the sim card and buy a nice GSM razr or GSM phone and then buy the $100 refill card. and BAM! your set till 7/1/2011.
If you need data and all that crap from a real carrier Tmo still has their flex pay which is $29.99 for 500 anytime minutes and unlimited nights and weekends. But then your paying monthly.
maxpower097 said:
If your only gonna get limited calls tmobiles your best solution. You can pay $100 for 1150 minutes that last for 1 year. All other phones offer crap for prepay. You can also buy $10 for 30 minutes, $25 for 140 minutes, $50 for 400 minutes, or $100 for 1000 minutes but if you spend $100 you get 15% more minutes. The 10 25 and 50 dollar refills activate for 3 months, the 100 dollar card activates for 1 year. If you interested I know a great guy on ebay that owns a shop that can sell you a prepaid activation kit with sim card for like $8. You email him your ime number, plan, and area code and he activates it for you. Then you can just get the sim card and buy a nice GSM razr or GSM phone and then buy the $100 refill card. and BAM! your set till 7/1/2011.
If you need data and all that crap from a real carrier Tmo still has their flex pay which is $29.99 for 500 anytime minutes and unlimited nights and weekends. But then your paying monthly.
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Thanks for the info. But I have a Sprint RAZR. Would it be possible for me to use this phone???
No sprints a CMDA phone, your limited to sprint, verizon, or metropcs. Figuring you can get a new GSM unlock RAZR3 for about $25 on craigslist its still your best option.
How much do you pay for your monthly plan?
Please list your carrier, country, price, and included features
Simply put.... A lot.
Florida USA
Tmobile
Flexpay (prepay)
500 anytime minutes
Free nights and weekends
Unlimited TXT
Unlimited Data(10GB)
59.99
8.50 tax
TOTAL
$68.xx
Sprint unlimited with 450 minutes to any phone that isn't a mobile phone - $69.99
Evo tax - $10
Spending limit program - $4.99
Best Buy insurance - $9.99
Total - $94.97
Plus tax. Sigh......
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T-Mobile
U.S.A.
Even More for Families
2 lines (1 hd2 and 1 bb curve)
unlimited talk, messages and data
$179.99
~$200 after taxes and fees
I have the sprint simply everything data plan with two lines.
I run a CDMA hero and my girlfriend has a blackberry.
My monthly total is $150 on average.
I'm pretty sure its 450 minutes to landline phones. Everything else is unlimited.
Also I'm in the US.
Country: Slovakia
Operator: Orange
Talk : 100 minutes (across all in-country networks)
Data : 2 GB
Costs : 26 Euro
UK
T-Mobile
HTC Desire
£35 p/m
Unlimited texts
1200 minutes
unlimited internet
3GB fair usage
Country: Netherlands
Carrier: Vodafone
Plan: Bel+SMS+Web 200 (Call+SMS+Web 200)
Price: First 6 months = €17,25; Last 6 months = €34,50
Features:
- 200 minutes or 400 texts.
- First minute fully billed, after that billed per second.
- Any minutes left over are kept for 2 months.
- Unlimited 3.6MB internet. (+FUP, but I've already gone above 1GB, don't know exact number)
[california, us]
family plan 750 min [2 lines]
Unlimited Data x 2
+ tax
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141.97
Country: Hong Kong
Carrier: Smartone-Vodafone
Monthly charge: HK$250 (ie, US$32, €25, or £21)
Includes 1600 minutes and unlimited data.
Sprint Family Plan
1500 Min (rarely use these because of below)
Unlimited Mobile to Any Mobile (Love this about sprint)
Unlimited Data
Unlimited Text
129.99-20 bucks then a 27% discount put on top of that. bringing it to about 85 a month for 2 heroes
UK Orange
Motorola Dext (Cliq)
£30 a month
600 minutes
Unlimited texts
500mb internet
Cali USA
Tmobile
Prepay
500 anytime minutes
Free nights and weekends
Unlimited TXT
Unlimited Data(10GB)
59.99
8.50 tax
TOTAL
$68.xx
Chicago, IL USA
Verizon Wireless:
700 Anytime Minutes
Unlimited Text, Pic, Video messaging
3 unlimited data plans (2 Droid Incredibles, 1 Eris)
$280/month
Covers 3 smartphones and 1 feature phone
California, USA
Sprint
(Talk 450) 450 anytime minutes
+ unlimited nights/weekends - 6pm nights
+ unlimited calling to any 3 numbers
+ unlimited data
+ 500 SMS + unlimited MMS/video messaging
+ handset insurance and repair
- corporate discount
- $10/month retentions credit
= $28.xx/month
Tmobile USA
500 anytime minutes
Free nights and weekends and tmob to tmob
400 TXT
Unlimited Data
TOTAL $55
cheap, cheap, cheap!
HTC Wildfire brown. Handset was FREE
UK Orange 'Dolphin 25 internet'
• 16 months FREE line rental saving £400.00
• Cash back paid at months 6, 9, 12, 15, 18
• 300 minutes to any network and unlimited texts.
• Internet and email included 500MB per month.
£25 pcm, BUT with cash-back included, actual amount paid is
£8.33 pcm, (that's right E I G H T).
See www.freecontractdeals.co.uk
T-Mobile UK.
Free HTC Desire
£25 Per Month ($39).
600 Minutes
Unlimited Texts
3GB Internet.
Just to add we don't pay for receiving calls or texts in the UK.
-10€ a month for data (200MB HSDPA, anything after that isn't billed but limited to 80kbps), includes 50 SMS per month
-5€ a month for 50 minutes of talk-time per month
Not exactly expensive, and since I'm rarely out of WiFi range, I hardly ever crack 100MB of traffic over HSDPA... the Desire wasn't included though