Best Mobile Phone Contract for UK Crew?
 

Can any one recommend a good package to get for your mobile. I am soon to be flying short Haul with Nightstops and things and would like to call home without getting huge bills each month.

Any help / Pointers greatly appreciated.

Re: Mobile
 

Hi Poorleno
"3" have a good package, something like £15 a month with anytime minutes included (not sure how many but quite a lot) and for £4.99 you can add on a bundle for texts. My friend has just got it and really pleased, got a nice free nokia with it too. Look on their website if you're interested.
Hope that helps.
Capricorn1

I would personally steer clear of 3. I've just ended an 18 month contract - and it couldnt have ended soon enough for me. Sure you get your free minutes, but they are for use in the UK only, and so are the free texts. My bills shot up with 3 to over £150 per month!

Now I'm back with O2, and I should never have left! I pay £40 per month and for that I get a gorgeous phone, free calls on Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays, then 750 free minutes to use for the rest of the days in the month. Plus 1000 free texts. The good thing about the texts is that unlike any other network in the UK, when you're abroad and you text home it takes 4 of your free messages rather than costing you more!

As Virgin Boi said O2 are the best for crew :ok:

What's wrong with Pay as You Go? I spend about £3 a year on calls and the phone cost me £29 to buy.

I have used Orange, Vodafone, T-mobile, O2, BTCellnet, Virgin over the years and now back with Orange on a Dolphin contract (£35 month). The reason is I get unlimited texts, 500 anytime any network minutes a month, but the real reason, I get 8mb broadband for only £5 month extra and this also gives you free phone calls via your broadband router (just plug a spare phone into it) to over 100 countries. Just email the room number for your hotel to your home and they can ring you free for as long as you want. Used it to call UK, Norway, USA so far and all free for hours of calls. No problem with call quality etc.
Just worth considering.

I'm currently on Vodaphone 1200 minutes for £75, Iv'e got 'stop the clock' so after 7pm you get an hours talk for 3 minutes off your price plan and 'passport' which means when abroad I pay 75pence per connection then the minutes come off my price plan. The down side is I do find vodaphone a bit pricey if i go over my limit, so am watching this thread closely.

I'm fed up with pay as you go...i am with orange and happy with what I get as for only £15 a month (which i can also spend on calls and texts) i get 3000 free text messages in the evenings and 600 minutes of on net calls in the evenings. HOWEVER, what i would like to know is why orange contract customers can get signal on their phones in certain foreign countries, when pay as you go phones do not work at all?!

have had it out with orange and of course they have no answer...just read some babble from the terms and conditions out to me. seems mighty unfair and the only reason i can think of is because orange get more money from their contract customers...they get no money from me whatsoever, apart from the cost of my phone...

O2 currently do a package which is sim card only. It includes 200mins calls and 250 texts a month. Best bit is that its a 12 month contract but the first 12 months are free. So as long as you remember to send your cashback applications it will cost nowt (except the international bit). Lots of contracts around with a few months free if you look around.

Hi Guys

Your in luck I work in the mobile industry just now!

If you are crew and travelling may I suggest a sim4travel

www.sim4travel.com this is some countries does not charge you when your recieve a call think most of europe is covered by this and I am pretty sure if someone calls you it comes off there mins as a uk call.


Although Vodafone do the vodafone passport you pay 75p for the connection then you can talk for a hour for that 75p but only in countries that have a vodafone network and you need to be using that for example in Italy you would roam onto Omnitel Vodafone in spain Vodafone ES.

Hope this helps

Ps I dont work for any of these companies...:=

Vodkaholic,

I have exactly the same orange pay as you go deal as you. If you go to the orange website, there is a sector about network cover abroad. You select the country that you are going to and a table will appear to tell you if your phone works in that particular country. I have found that is sim card does work in most countries in Africa, Canada and some Far East countries. I have now bought a sim card from maxsim(.co.uk) and works virtually everywhere. When I get a new laptop, I will just use skype.

thanks off stand for that!! i did just assume my phone would work in pretty much every country, but the last 2 i went to it did not...and when i checked the tabel afterwards, it did say that it wouldnt work. did you have to pay for the sim card from maxsim? what mobile phone network does it use?

You do, it is £29, plus p&p. It isn't tied to one network, it is a 'roaming sim card' as they call it. It picks up what ever network is strongest/they have an agreement with.

I have only just got mine. It isn't all that cheap (maybe slightly less that roaming with your normal sim card) for texts, but for calling it is pretty good, as long as you are calling a landline.

I mainly have mine on so that I am contactable by friends and family if they urgently need me.

Ahh ok i see...not sure it would be worth £29 for me as I don't go away that much with my current company...but it is definitely worth bearing in mind!! so thanks for the info!

im with 02, i pay £30 a month for 200 anytime mins plus 500 free text. With that i also get international call saver for free, which is really good, i think text msgs are about 30p from spain etc. the only thing is that its an online contract so u dont get a paper bill u just view it on their website

I've been on contract with 3, T-mobile, Orange and O2.

O2 have been the best I have found. I have now been with them for three years and when you stay with them you start getting perks each year.

totally worth it I think, can't beat them