Are cheap pay as you go deals a thing of the past?

[SwanFlight]

Just trying to work out what everyone does regarding how they provision their young ones and/or elders SIM deals.

Typically the people I'm thinking of only send a few texts per month and probably receive a handful. However they may make the odd important phone call - for kids it might be: 'can you come pick me up..' etc.

I'm after a no-frills cheap SMS deal really, but being able to make the odd call shouldn't bankrupt them.

There used to be an O2 classic tariff, charged at 3p (per min calls), 2p (per text), 1p (per 1MB data). And another charge for voicemail.

It seems most providers don't offer thee sorts of deals anymore and try and get you on a monthly or yearly contract. The cheapest I can find is about £6 a month for an allowance of data, and usually as many calls and texts as you can send.

For those with a few kids this soon could rack up! So what do people do or advise? Are there any good family orientated deals?

We are all on kebara. I think the kids are £3.50 a month each or something ridiculous like that. That's unlimited calls and texts and a small amount of data, maybe 1gb

I’m on giff gaff and do a monthly plan (no commitment) think they start as little as £6

I set my DM up on that, as she only needed phone calls. Worked fine.

Uswitch is good for sim only deals. The dc are on spusu for £3 a month only 1gb of data so just use Wi-Fi