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Guest mcwarre
Posted

The title says it!

Here are the costs:

Voucher & Add On Summary

Voucher VideoTalk VideoText Free To Use

VTT £15 100 mins 100 SMS + 25MIN £1.50

VTT £25 500 mins 500 SMS + 50MIN £1.50

VTT £35 750 mins 750 SMS + 75MIN £1.50

Add Ons Description Cost

Add Text 75 75 SMS - £5

Add Text 200 200 SMS £10

Add Everything To be used on anything except Top Shelf/ Extras £5

Unlimited Content Unlimited video content & downloads (not Top Shelf/ Extras) £10

Standard text message cost = 10p per message

Text message cost (75 SMS add On) = 7p per message

Text message cost (200 SMS add On) = 5p per message

Rates For Value Allowance Usage

Voice calls to same network 5p per min

Voice calls to UK landlines 10p per min

Voice calls to other UK mobile networks 25p per min

Video calls 50p per min

Calls to Customer Service on 333 TBC

Calls to automated Top up & Balance enquiry service FREE

Text messages 10p per message

Picture messages 25p per message

Video messages 50p per message

Email 5p to 50p (dep on size)

Video content & other services 5p to £ 2.50 per event

Vouchers valid for a maximum of 30 days after activation. Vouchers will need to be activated within 90 days of purchase.

At quick glance it looks quite expensive to use, especially when there is only one phone the Motorola A835 which costs ~ £149.99. (They are cheaper on eBay but 3 don't sell just SIMs)

If you are PAYG would you use it?

Posted

Those phones are nasty buggy things... girlfriend has one :)

Guest mcwarre
Posted

I have one and I wouldn't say it is buggy at all. Annoying that you can only assign one number to a contact and the size of a house brick. But apart from that acceptable (not great)

Posted

and they have surprisingly good deals on calls do, the p&g prices are not as good as the contact ones though

Guest mcwarre
Posted

Squall.

True but the main idea of PAYG is for people who can't pass credit checks (too young or bad record) and those who don't want to be tied for 12 months.

I have a nice 3 contract (to add to my E50) which is £17.50 for 6 months with £20 cashback, free phone and 750 cross-network anytime minutes. A freebie or what!!!!!

Posted

i still dont get how 3 can be so much cheaper than 02 when 3 uses the o2 network.

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Guest Scarfman007
Posted

3 doesn't use O2 network - O2 isn't 3G for a start, whereas 3 is.

It's only when you're 'roaming' outside their 3g area that you use the O2 network and 3 pays O2 for your calls. I think part of the reason is that 3G networks have sooo much more bandwidth than 2G, and bandwidth = money.

Also I heard that 3 make twice as much money per user than the other 2G networks.

Could be part of the reason why I got 750 mins a month, a Symbian UIQ A920 PDA phone and £160 cashback for £17.50 for the first 3 months, then £35 after that (still damn good for 750 mins!) I don't claim that the phone is (much) better than an SPV (oops, should I have said that?!) - however my bank account is liking it lots :).

Scarfman

Posted

7600 nokia (wierd but good phone).. on 3pay.. saving me money from 1 month in.. 179.99 at carphonewarehouse now.

(7600 is sim unlocked, and 3 sim is not locked to 3 phones only - according to my research)

Joy!!

Will

Guest meatgrinder
Posted

hahaha, very nice will, i'll be saving too i think, thats sounds like a steal!

Dave

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