Mobile phone contract - help

[Sundayagain27]

Hi for years I have been with ee and had a mobile contract with a new handset and unlimited data etc - now costing me over £60 a month and am at the end of contract and want to change to a much more cost effective way.
help me understand sim only deals ?do you get tied in to a contract ?
any help welcome ! 🙏

If you look on money saving expert they have the latest deals. Lebara usually have one for a few £. Its a rolling monthly contract so you are only tied in for that month. You can also usually get family discounts with more than one plan and change the amount of data you have.

@Bookfishtea thanks 🙏

I’ve just switched from EE to Lebara. Went online, ordered a Sim and it arrived the next day. Then got a PAC code from EE, gave it to Lebara and picked a switchover date. All happened seamlessly.

What’s receptions like with lebara ? I moved to three once and service was so poor I moved back to EE so a bit nervous

Lebara use the Vodafone network

We have both been with Tesco SIM only for years. A bit of a pain when they changed over to the new Essentials package at the beginning of the year but has settled down again now.
We are out & about a lot in our Moho a lot and have never failed to receive a good signal.
Would be a massive saving over your £60/m.

Edit. Just saw your comment about being tied into a contract.
No, you can leave at any time.

Fab will investigate !

We have 2 phones on Smarty. You can carry on using your current handset or buy a new one else, paying outright. Mobiles.co.uk are an online company owned by carphone warehouse who have some good deals. When you move to another supplier, you can move your number, just Google how to do it, it is easy. We had 2 phones on contract before, paying £80 odd per month. Now we pay around £10 a month for both similar cards, they both work well. Well worth doing, and we find that our phones do everything we want, and features on new handsets are not essential. So we keep our handsets till they break. 4 years now.

Oh, if buying a new handset hang on till they have been available for a few months, and the prices drop. November is a good time to buy with Black Friday deals.

Choices are to:
PAYG - a SIM for your phone, but you will have to keep topping up periodically

SIM only - a contract, but only paying for your network and calls
(if your contract is up for renewal and you don’t upgrade your phone your current provider might convert you to SIM only - but check to be sure)

SIM & phone contract - you pay the full amount for network and calls plus an amount for the phone
O2 for example show how much is for the phone and how much is for the network/calls, so once the phone is paid for the bill gets cheaper unless you upgrade

An option you can try relatively cheaply is to grab a few different PAYG SIMs then check them for reception, but that would mean spending a bit on each to try out

If you google each supplier you can check what the underlying network is that each uses to avoid testing something that will have a

Look at giffgaff and also consider do you want a new phone or do you need new phone.

I have a £10 a month goody-bag from Giffgaff and only replace phone about every 5 years (when apps I frequently use stop working)

I have giff gaff I pay £6 per month on rolling plan I work from home so I don't need lots of internet as I'm connected to home Wi-fi currently I have 2 GB I downgraded last month as I was paying £10 and actually never used 40 GB. I buy phone for max £250 and my current one is 4 years old already. You can easily switch your plans online. I'm with them 8 years and never had problem.

Try smarty or giffgaff depending what network works best in your area

I changed from o2 who I had been with 25yrs or so to lebara 6mths ago

was paying £26/27 for 20gb and now £2.50 for 35GB and will go up to 6.50 I think so saving £20 a month plus got an amazon voucher for £25 and get more data then o2

A link if you or you anyone wants to swap

I get a voucher - I chose Amazon

https://aklam.io/tboZfQo1

they are great and easy to contact if need to talk to them and

it’s rolling contract so can leave anytime if want to

signal is great as vodaphone