How much is your teens monthly mobile bill

[DoorstoManual]

For context it is a sim only contract.

This month it was £23.50, turns out he purchased extra data £7 without asking in the middle of June. >

He is still asleep, so will talk to him when he wakes up, but before we do, just wanted to see how much on average people are paying ?

TIA

I don't understand how he'd be using so much data during lockdown, surely he is prodominently at home, if he's meeting with mates then it would seem odd to use so much data even if out. I would be a bit about what he is accessing with the need to use so much data indoors. My teen has accrued so much data.

We are with sky, there are some brilliant deals for sims, can buy a phone with them or just get one outright. It's worth having a look. We also all have our phones on the same account, we have 1 phone with 10gb and then the others on around 1gb and can transfer accrued data to each other, we have about 100gb of data banked so if anyone is low I just transfer a GB.

£5 a month sim only, unlimited calls and texts. Very limited data - 1 GB I think. They cannot use more data.

Before lockdown one teen nearly always ran out of data after about two days by 'accidentally' watching an essential You Tube video on the walk to school. Tough!

Sim only are awful for this. He probably didn't even realise he'd gone over.

Get him a contract.

plusnet seem to do 10GB, plus unlimited jabber and thumb for £10 a month. Only suckers pay loads extra for out of the house data. Time he learnt not to be a sucker.

SIM only with Giffgaff £10 a month. She bought her own phone.

Thank you everyone, very helpful.

His friendship bubble is very rural so I guess they are YouTube ing when sitting in the middle of nowhere without wifi.

We have changed the password on the account.

He is not best pleased but too bloody bad.

Thankfully, we are at a stage in our life where the £7 is not an issue and to be honest if he had just asked I probably would have said thanks for asking , don't worry about paying for it, you can have it.

But he is presenting as irritated that I questioned it, so password change it is then.

Bloody teens.

The sense of entitlement would make me angry to OP.

Maybe ask him if he would just take money out of your purse without asking.
I think when you are just clicking a button it doesn't feel like real money.

we use virgin sim only mobile £15 a month 20g data and unlimited talk and texts.

I suppose in a rural area, you might need to check what signals are good before signing up to anything, especially for a 12 month contract.

I've settled on Lebara now, which uses the Vodafone signal, after trying Smarty (3 - zero signal where I am on the outskirts of a large city) and Giff Gaff (O2, signal quite bad most of the time). But for all these, you pay month to month by credit or debit card and can cancel at any time and they just stop charging your card, so it's fairly easy to move between providers - you can get your PAC online with no bother.

But I think if he's going to spend £££s to sit in a field watching videos on a tiny screen, he should probably contribute to this out of his allowance money.

@justforthecake

Exactly that, the entitlement.

Lots of change coming.

Huawei p20 lite £15 contract, capped.

Mine have contract phones. Capped. I pay £15 per month each for them. 1G of data, with unlimited texts and phone minutes.