Prev: proportion of mobile which have swapped network?
Next: uk.telecom.mobile mini FAQ (weekly posting)
From: Theo Markettos on 4 Nov 2009 16:31 Steve pointed this out in another thread, but I'd not seen it before so worth mentioning: http://www.vectonemobile.co.uk/ is a new PAYG - someone mentioned it's a T-mobile virtual. Some of the promotions are interesting, though they all expire at the end of December: 1p/min on weekends to quite a few countries. The number of minutes is restricted, but some of the countries are in traditionally 'expensive' territory (eg 20 mins to Afghanistan, 1000 to China). There's a catch in that this only works the weekend after you've topped up (so it's not quite such a good deal as it originally sounds). Minimum topup is 5 pounds. 5p/min to UK mobiles and landlines, and 5p/text Free Vectone-Vectone calls for the first 10 mins, then 5p/min. Apart from the promotions, which are rather headline-grabbing but not terribly useful afterwards, the prices on non-weekend international calls are good - better than Lycamobile for the countries I checked. Now I strongly suspect prices are going to go up in January, but if you can use a topup's worth before then it's got quite a few things going for it. Theo
From: Theo Markettos on 6 Nov 2009 12:44 Theo Markettos <theom+news(a)chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote: > 1p/min on weekends to quite a few countries. The number of minutes is > restricted, but some of the countries are in traditionally 'expensive' > territory (eg 20 mins to Afghanistan, 1000 to China). There's a catch in > that this only works the weekend after you've topped up (so it's not quite > such a good deal as it originally sounds). Minimum topup is 5 pounds. This is worse than I thought... it's only valid 'the next weekend when you top up in the week'. So you can't topup to use it straightaway, you have to topup between 1 and 6 days before. Fine if you make regular calls once a month (say), but rapidly heading into chocolate teapot territory. So, until January they have cheap calls, and that's about it. Possibly of interest if you call international a lot and need to do it on the move or don't have a landline/VOIP. But the offers are mostly a waste of time. Theo
From: Christof Meerwald on 6 Nov 2009 13:24 On 06 Nov 2009 17:44:53 +0000 (GMT), Theo Markettos wrote: [...] > So, until January they have cheap calls, and that's about it. Possibly of > interest if you call international a lot and need to do it on the move or > don't have a landline/VOIP. But the offers are mostly a waste of time. Well, they are obviously targeting the same market as Lyca mobile or Lebara mobile, but are slightly cheaper (even without their offers). Christof -- http://cmeerw.org sip:cmeerw at cmeerw.org mailto:cmeerw at cmeerw.org xmpp:cmeerw at cmeerw.org
|
Pages: 1 Prev: proportion of mobile which have swapped network? Next: uk.telecom.mobile mini FAQ (weekly posting) |