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I use prepaid T-Mobile in the UK. I buy a £20 "6MONTHWEB" booster once every 6 months and it gives me 500MB of data transfer per month for the next 6 months, wh
by mike-cardwell 14y ago
I use prepaid T-Mobile in the UK. I buy a £20 "6MONTHWEB" booster once every 6 months and it gives me 500MB of data transfer per month for the next 6 months, which is more than I use (I have wifi at home and work). I barely ever use it for calls or SMS, so my phone costs me somewhere between £3.33 and £4.00 per month (not including the initial cost of buying the phone of course). SMS would have been an issue, but I managed to convince all of my common SMS contacts to switch over to using Kik Messenger instead.
- kalleboo 14y agoI travel a lot and use prepaid almost all the time - all my friends are on Android or iPhone and I can use either Google Talk or iMessage. The only person I ever send SMS to anymore is my dad who has a blackberry. I have a friend with more diverse friends and they're all on WhatsApp. I can't imagine the panic operators are feeling over declining SMS revenue.
- ams6110 14y agoI thought (in the US anyway) that most carriers had unlimited talk/text now. Data is where the tiered pricing is.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoI'm on TESCO Mobile, I buy a £5 500MB data bundle each month. Works great. I can still SMS and call when I need to, but I don't most of the time.
- muyuu 14y agoI also use prepaid in the UK. They are definitely the best deals, unless you want the very latest. That simply isn't available PAYG and if it is, it's a ridiculously expensive package so you just don't do it. I've spent less than 200 pounds in two years in the service, and another 200 in terminals (I use 2, a Blackberry Curve 3G and a Xperia Arc S upgraded to ICS). I won't get another terminal in a year or two, so my average expense per month is less than 15 quid, and when I'm abroad I spend even less.