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Anyone recently upgraded their phone? A moan!

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Youngmumss · 04/10/2023 18:06

I’m on EE since 2000 ( One2One, T-Mobile and all that)
Im at the end of my two yr contact and I was looking forward to a new upgrade and to get a new shiny phone Samsung however I’m bit confused as all the new upgrades seemed to be containing two contracts, one is the price of the handset and the second one is the monthly fee of the airtime.
So if the phone I’d like is £38 per month and then on the top of it it’s the airtime contract of another £28.
Before it used to be just one payment.
Anyone had this?
The prices are shocking anyway.
I pay now £42 per month ( the price was originally £31 but increased)
Even if I choose the Sim only it’s still £33 and no new phone.
Again before for that £33 I had a new flagship phone.
not sure what to do.

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Oakbeam · 07/10/2023 17:13

Not seen it mentioned yet, but RWG mobile (a welsh company) use EE network - but I don't think they do wifi calling

They don’t, and they don’t have Band 20 access either which will limit rural coverage. The latter seems a bit daft considering that they market themselves as an all Wales network.

needtonamechangeforthis1 · 07/10/2023 23:48

Oakbeam · 07/10/2023 16:31

You get a reduced service in any of the piggyback networks.

You can do. It isn’t always the case.

And ideally I need a phone that will run two sims one for personal and one for my business

Have you considered using a physical SIM and an eSIM?

Yes but my current phone is so old I can't even do that!

Oakbeam · 08/10/2023 08:53

Yes but my current phone is so old I can't even do that!

I meant for a new phone. The choice of phones with single physical SIM slots is massive compared to those with two.

needtonamechangeforthis1 · 08/10/2023 10:47

Oakbeam · 08/10/2023 08:53

Yes but my current phone is so old I can't even do that!

I meant for a new phone. The choice of phones with single physical SIM slots is massive compared to those with two.

Yes I'm looking into all options but I'm an iPhone woman and all seem ridiculously expensive! I'm just about coping financially and adding a £60 a month plus bill to my load isn't ideal!

Dontsparethehorses · 15/10/2023 05:17

needtonamechangeforthis1 · 08/10/2023 10:47

Yes I'm looking into all options but I'm an iPhone woman and all seem ridiculously expensive! I'm just about coping financially and adding a £60 a month plus bill to my load isn't ideal!

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Your work home doesn’t need to be an iPhone surely? Just something to answer calls? Get a cheap basic phone for that and an iPhone for personal use? Your definitely limiting yourself/ making it more expensive by needing a 2 sim phone would be my guess? iPhone 13 mini is very reasonable

Oakbeam · 15/10/2023 08:51

needtonamechangeforthis1 · 08/10/2023 10:47

Yes I'm looking into all options but I'm an iPhone woman and all seem ridiculously expensive! I'm just about coping financially and adding a £60 a month plus bill to my load isn't ideal!

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£60? A new iPhone SE can be had for less than £18 a month from Apple.

Pair it with a 10G 1PMobile sim and you are going to have change from £30.

decionsdecisions62 · 15/10/2023 09:06

I just upgraded yesterday and have an iPhone and plan for £26 a month. I just didn't get sucked in to buying the latest model. It didn't seem too difficult.

Fizbosshoes · 15/10/2023 09:13

I bought a (mid-range samsung) phone on a black Friday deal and then got a sim only contract. I think is £15/month

Blughbablugh · 15/10/2023 09:27

Never upgrade using the online deals. Always phone up and haggle to get the best deal. If you want to stay with EE then have a look at cheaper quotes elsewhere and see if they can match them. Usually, although you are tied in to an EE contract, if you want to upgrade your phone in the contract time you still can no problem.

Wehavealaughdontwe · 15/10/2023 09:59

If you send PAC to 65075 then your current carrier (EE in your case) will think you are trying to leave and ring you with good offers. I just did this and upgraded to a s23 for £20 less a month than I was paying for the s21. They also waived the upgrade fee. I'm also with EE

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Youngmumss · 15/10/2023 14:25

Thanks everyone.
It needs to be Ee really as some piggy back network has no added extras like WiFi calling etc, roaming..
Also I’m interested in the Samsung G s23 only. So not to iPhone.
I did not contact them fully yet as goiing away soon and didn’t want mock about with new phone before it.
I contacted them only randomly on FB and they said if I don’t want the36 month Flexed contract, I need to call them and they will see what happens.

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Watchinghockey · 15/10/2023 19:03

I got the Samsung S23 2 months ago for £27 total pm month for 2 years, including the monthly cost both of buying the phone and 100 GB data per month and unlimited minutes and texts etc. Decent Eurozone package too. From mobilephonesdirect who are part of AO. Customer service was flawless and transferring my number was straightforward. Contract is with O2, they had other providers at the time, can't remember if EE were one of them. I'm not piggybacking, my actual contract is O2 and AO dropped out of the process once they'd delivered the phone and I'd ported my number

I had been with Vodafone for years and could not get them to offer me a remotely sensible price on anything, be it online, by phone or instore. Everything they were offering was £50 + for 3 years, lousy data allowance and price increases every year. I could have got the same £27 Samsung deal via the AO people with Vodafone but Vodafone refused to price match it themselves and so I decided it was time to change network as cancelling my contract with Vodafone and starting a new one via AO and porting number etc was just unbelievably pointless when I was already a customer.

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