To ask how much your phone contract is?

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And what phone that's for?

I got an amazing deal on black Friday 2 years ago. I got 100GB data, Unlimited calls and texts and the Note 9 for £36 a month.

I'm looking to upgrade now for a similar plan and I'm being quoted around the £55 mark.

So I'm curious what you have and what you pay?

£55 :s iPhone with unlimited data ect

I bought my phone, £200ish really good samsung. On voxi £10pm 8GB data, unlimited calls and texts, roaming, unlimited social media data. Saved a tonne. Did the same when DHs phone came up for renewal (he would have kept the same phone but he lost it in the woods)

Also on giffgaff here. At the moment, I'm paying £8 a month for 2gb data (working from home & not going out much), but I usually get 6gb for £10 - plus an additional 1gb if I run out. I currently have a Samsung S10e which I bought last year, before that I had an iPhone SE 1st gen. I haven't had a 'proper' contract in years and don't regret it - DH, SIL and my mum are all on giffgaff as well!

Tesco mobile here, £9.50 a month, 6gb data, not sure how many calls and texts but more than I will ever use, bought iPhone upfront from JL

£7.50 here with Tesco SIM only with 1GB data, which I rarely use because most of the time I am at home or work on the WiFi. I bought my phone outright, a Pixel, just before the new model came out.

£10 month on Tesco mobile. No idea what I get in terms of data and calls but have never run out or been charged more.

But not being on a contract just seems expensive to me. What's the point of paying £8 for 2gb and pay extra to go over when you can get 4 times that data for the same price

TalkMobile £7.50 a month.
Am staggered by some of these amounts. I can't understand why you would buy a phone on credit.

£40 a month. iPhone 11 with 5GB and unlimited texts and minutes.

£8.00 a month gift gaff

@bruffin

But not being on a contract just seems expensive to me. What's the point of paying £8 for 2gb and pay extra to go over when you can get 4 times that data for the same price

giffgaff give you extra data on certain goodybags so you don't actually pay more. Personally I prefer to buy a phone outright and have a cheap SIM deal as I tend to keep my phone longer than 2 years. Additionally when I've had contracts in the past, I've always paid over my line rental. Giffgaff is just easier for me as I know exactly what I'm spending.

I have the o2 refresh tariff so I pay for the phone and airtime separately. Phone is £21 but can be paid off at any point. Tariff is 50gb plus unlimited everything £27 and an Apple Watch ⌚️ tariff which is £5. So £53 total. If my maths is correct which it probably isn't.

Oh and that's an Apple XR 128gb

Sky mobile, £5 per month for my sim with 20gb of data and unlimited calls and texts.

And my phone Is £20 a month for an iPhone 11.

Am staggered by some of these amounts. I can't understand why you would buy a phone on credit
Because if you shop around it can be cheaper.
I paid 23 a month including 4gb data which is 564 +£100 deposit total £664 over 2 years That is for a £750 phone that had been out 6 months and I traded it on this week for £250. So on a contract I got a phone +4gb of data for less than buying it outright.

,Personally I prefer to buy a phone outright and have a cheap SIM deal as I tend to keep my phone longer than 2 years
The phone become yours after 2 years anyway, so don't see the point of paying it
out in one go when you effectively have an interest free deal.
Either way £8 for 2gb is way too expensive

Interesting thread.

I thought I did well getting an iPhone 7 32gb on contract with Tesco with unltd calls and texts I never leave home (agoraphobic) so don't use data as I am always on homes WiFi and I am paying £26.60 pcm as I got caught out as old phone died suddenly! And I rely on my phone!

I'm hoping this one works for at least 4 years and I can save to buy the next one outright.

I won't buy second hand as had bad experiences in the past buying tech second hand - you've no real comeback if something goes wrong in my experience

But there is a certain phrase I think there's at least a few posters will be interested in learning more about if they don't already know - planned obsolescence

Basically Apple etc DELIBERATELY design their tech to only last Max 2 years so that you'll have to buy again!

It's starting to be outlawed in some countries with some difficulty as of course these are huge, wealthy companies with a lot of clout - but we as consumers as a group also have a lot of clout and we need to use it, I'm just not entirely sure how.

I for one would certainly appreciate any tips from those of you with savvy in this area!

Android, newish phone out..unlimited data, calls , text, I also pay the wifi ,house phone and landline through this.
Vodafone, £50pm

Bought a phone. Just pay £10 a month for unlimited texts and calls and even with constant use I never run out of mobile data (ID mobile) . I would never get a phone on contract. You end up paying a lot more than the phone is worth !

£80pcm. Unlimited everything and the latest handset at the time I took it out.

I just checked my account. I forgot that I now have 8GB a month for £8.

I used to have GiffGaff, but coverage isn't very good where we live. I had to laugh when I checked DH's account. He has sent 1 text message and spent 5 minutes ringing out on his phone in the last month.

I got the same deal as you, OP, but have the iPhone XR. I needed a phone at the time anyway, and doing the maths: £36 x 24 months = £864 - the phone at the time cost £749, so that would be £115 on the actual minutes, texts and data, which works out at about a fiver a month. I’m not eligible for upgrade yet but my phone is still fine so I’ll only ‘upgrade’ if there’s a good deal on a handset that I can give to DD, otherwise it’ll be SIM only as I don’t actually need the 100Gb data.

£8 a month, GiffGaff. Just pay as you go.

I'd never do a contract, waaaaay too pricey!

Black Friday deal on Mobiles.co.uk (carphone warehouse) two years ago

£30 a month for iPhone XR. Unlimited calls and texts. Not sure how much data it's either 32 or 64gb but it's more than I've ever needed.

Spent about £180 (I think) upfront for handset, but sold old phone which more than covered that cost.

£40 a month for an XR with 30gb and unlimited calls and texts. The contract is up in December and the phone is still immaculate so I’ll probably get a cheap SIM and keep it for another year or two.