My Pulse on PAYG Mates Rates v £7.50 per month option

[Guest chris9181]

Hi

I have had my Pulse for a few months now on mates rates so as long as I top up £10 per month I keep the unlimited internet and texts. I have been offered the £7.50 per month option with free phone, unlimited web/texts and 100 mins, but here is my dilema!

I cant quite work out if this is too good to be true or if I am missing something!

If I go ahead with it, I plan to sell the new phone and put the £7.50 per month Sim in my Pulse as with my logic I am then getting what I have now for £2.50 less per month plus I have a phone to sell.

What does everybody think? Is this the way to go? The only snag I can think of is that when I go on hol to france in a few weeks I wont have any credit like I had with my £10 top ups so wont be able to use it.

Also, does anybody know if the so called 'unlimited web' is the same on both plans?

Many thanks

Chris

[Guest Speckles]

I believe 'unlimited web' is different. Or it was when I last spoke to a T-Mobile representative (might have changed since then)

PAYG was 1GB per month 'Unlimited internet'

PM is 3GB per month 'Unlimited internet' for Android phones (else 1GB/month)

I had the same dilemma, this is how I cured it:

Took out the £7.50/month deal. 24 months * £7.50 = £180. Received the phone. Sold it for £130. £180 - £130 = £50. £50/24 = £2.08.

When my 24 months are up I'll cancel the contract as I still have £49 credit on my PAYG SIM (I'll probably make 1 call per 6 months to keep it active)

BTW: It's FAR less than £2.50 cheaper than PAYG, as your getting 100 All-Network minutes free & Unlimited landline calls for free (You get a free flexible booster, and I choose that)

24 months does sounds like a long time, but when you calculate it and find out it's only £50 once you sold the phone, it's an absolute steal!

Edited July 13, 2010 by Speckles

[Guest meinnit]

Catch is it's probably a 24 month contract which is a long tie in but as long as you're happy with this then go for it.

Just bare in mind that even after 6 months a lot changes in the mobile world so cheaper tarrifs may well come a long but if you can get the line rental to around £2 then I guess you can't lose!

Edited July 13, 2010 by meinnit

[Guest chris9181]

Catch is it's probably a 24 month contract which is a long tie in but as long as you're happy with this then go for it.

Just bare in mind that even after 6 months a lot changes in the mobile world so cheaper tarrifs may well come a long but if you can get the line rental to around £2 then I guess you can't lose!

I believe its 3gig per month on android and 1gig on others, but I am not really sure what 1gig gets you....is that plenty anyway.

Using it in france is a bit of a dilema but i would need to look into if there is a bolt on

[Guest AnDroidNooB]

100 mins... this means that you can only talk on the phone for 1 hour and 40 mins FOR THE WHOLE MONTH!!!! :D and if you go over it (which you might likely do) you will be paying outrageous prices. payg is cool because you can top up 20 pounds and get unlimited calls to t-mob and unlimited texts nd probably mix it up and throw in an internet booster in there without the limitations set by a 24 month contract

if you work it out.. 12 months in a year.. 24 months in 2 years.. 100 mins a month thats 2400 mins in 2 years... that is 40 hours you can spend on the phone in 2 YEARS!!!... so in 730 days.. you can only spend 40 hours which is about 1 day and 16 hours on the phone... BULLCRAP! you may get a new phone but you my friend will suffer. :angry: ;)

[Guest de_shepherd]

100 mins... this means that you can only talk on the phone for 1 hour and 40 mins FOR THE WHOLE MONTH!!!!

All depends what you use your "phone" for ... for me my Pulse is almost exclusively used as a mobile internet device and I probably use less than 100 mins of calls per year :angry:. So for me PAYG with 6 month web for £20 on Tmobile (+ extra 2 months top-up rewards from the 2 £10 top-ups to get the £20 on my account) is brilliant value.

[Guest Speckles]

Typically, the reason you use PAYG is because you don't make many calls, else you'd be on a contract with lots of free call time.

100 mins are to any network. 100 mins * 25p/min (standard PAYG rate to non-T Mobiles), so £25. I think you can easily say that £2 is cheaper than £25.

If I want to talk to someone for an hour, I don't call there mobile. I call there landline, and thats free on this tariff (or 25p/min on PAYG).

Think about it, £20 to topup your PAYG could be 10 months or 1000 free minutes. I don't need to calculate how much 1000 minutes is on PAYG...

[Guest Simon O]

I believe 'unlimited web' is different. Or it was when I last spoke to a T-Mobile representative (might have changed since then)

PAYG was 1GB per month 'Unlimited internet'

I'm on Pay as you go and I was told by t-mobile the monthly fair usage is 3GB. :angry:

Edited July 14, 2010 by flibblesan

[Guest ArcticFox]

Unlimited internet if you get an Android phone is 3Gb otherwise its 1Gb.

[Guest Speckles]

It doesn't matter really though does it. The limits are only soft limits anyway. If you go over them you don't loose your internet.

[Guest shovon]

Hi

I have had my Pulse for a few months now on mates rates so as long as I top up £10 per month I keep the unlimited internet and texts. I have been offered the £7.50 per month option with free phone, unlimited web/texts and 100 mins, but here is my dilema!

I cant quite work out if this is too good to be true or if I am missing something!

If I go ahead with it, I plan to sell the new phone and put the £7.50 per month Sim in my Pulse as with my logic I am then getting what I have now for £2.50 less per month plus I have a phone to sell.

What does everybody think? Is this the way to go? The only snag I can think of is that when I go on hol to france in a few weeks I wont have any credit like I had with my £10 top ups so wont be able to use it.

Also, does anybody know if the so called 'unlimited web' is the same on both plans?

Many thanks

Chris

Hi, can I ask how you were offered this contract please? Did T-mobile ring you up? I'm a Pay & go customer also and wouldn't mind this contract.

[Guest Speckles]

Officially, T-Mobile offer it to contract customers who are at the end of there contract and ring up to cancel.

Unofficially, depending on who you get at customer services, you can sometimes persuade them to sign you up for the deal.