Do these cards offer a cheap way to run a mobile if you don't care
about the number changing and remember to cancel the renewal each
month?
There are several, they offer unlimited calls and texts plus 10Gb or
15GB of data, they last for 30 days so you'd need twelve and a bit per
year. So -u12/year for quite a reasonable amount of data and unlimited everything else.
Yes, I know it wouldn't suit one's 'main' phone due to the changing
number but it would be fine for my tablet which is basically just a
browsing device and for making the occasional call.
Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:
Do these cards offer a cheap way to run a mobile if you don't care
about the number changing and remember to cancel the renewal each
month?
There are several, they offer unlimited calls and texts plus 10Gb or
15GB of data, they last for 30 days so you'd need twelve and a bit per year. So -u12/year for quite a reasonable amount of data and unlimited everything else.
Yes, I know it wouldn't suit one's 'main' phone due to the changing
number but it would be fine for my tablet which is basically just a browsing device and for making the occasional call.
Are you sure they have credit on them? Often 99p SIM cards require a -u10 or similar topup for activation. The '15GB for 30 days' thing is what you get when you topup -u10 (or whatever) a month, ie it works on the usual 'buy monthly bundle' system, and bigger bundles cost more.
You can buy cards preloaded with credit that require no additional topup,
but they tend to cost more.
eg: https://www.argos.co.uk/product/1487268?clickSR=slp:term:sim%20card:5:95:1
is -u1 but says "For just -u10 a month you'll receive 8GB data, plus unlimited
minutes and texts"
Meanwhile the Vodafone 7/15/40GB cards are all -u1, while the 'data only' cards are 30GB for -u20, 60GB for -u30 and 120GB for -u50. If the 40GB card included 40GB of data for -u1, why would they also sell a 30GB card for -u20?
based on: https://www.argos.co.uk/search/sim-card/?clickOrigin=searchbar:home:auto:sim+card:sim+card
Do these cards offer a cheap way to run a mobile if you don't care
about the number changing and remember to cancel the renewal each
month?
There are several, they offer unlimited calls and texts plus 10Gb or
15GB of data, they last for 30 days so you'd need twelve and a bit per
year. So -u12/year for quite a reasonable amount of data and unlimited everything else.
Yes, I know it wouldn't suit one's 'main' phone due to the changing
number but it would be fine for my tablet which is basically just a
browsing device and for making the occasional call.
On 2026-02-11 10:15, Chris Green wrote:
Do these cards offer a cheap way to run a mobile if you don't care
about the number changing and remember to cancel the renewal each
month?
There are several, they offer unlimited calls and texts plus 10Gb or
15GB of data, they last for 30 days so you'd need twelve and a bit per year. So -u12/year for quite a reasonable amount of data and unlimited everything else.
Yes, I know it wouldn't suit one's 'main' phone due to the changing
number but it would be fine for my tablet which is basically just a browsing device and for making the occasional call.
Can't comment on those specific SIM cards, but ask yourself: Will I
remember every month to cancel what needs to be cancelled &/or renew
what needs to be renewed?
I used to use PAYG for both my mobile and my tablet, but got so pissed
off with finding on those rare occasions that I needed to make a call or
use the tablet for navigation on a long journey that I'd run out of
money on the unit, and had to renew, that eventually I looked for the cheapest Pay Monthly alternative. My choice was 'Spusu 1 Special' and
is unlimited minutes, unlimited texts, 1GB for -u2.90pm, which suits me fine.
On 2026-02-11 10:15, Chris Green wrote:
Do these cards offer a cheap way to run a mobile if you don't care
about the number changing and remember to cancel the renewal each
month?
There are several, they offer unlimited calls and texts plus 10Gb or
15GB of data, they last for 30 days so you'd need twelve and a bit per
year.-a So -u12/year for quite a reasonable amount of data and unlimited
everything else.
Yes, I know it wouldn't suit one's 'main' phone due to the changing
number but it would be fine for my tablet which is basically just a
browsing device and for making the occasional call.
Can't comment on those specific SIM cards, but ask yourself: Will I
remember every month to cancel what needs to be cancelled &/or renew
what needs to be renewed?
I used to use PAYG for both my mobile and my tablet, but got so pissed
off with finding on those rare occasions that I needed to make a call or
use the tablet for navigation on a long journey that I'd run out of
money on the unit, and had to renew, that eventually I looked for the cheapest Pay Monthly alternative.-a My choice was 'Spusu 1 Special' and
is unlimited minutes, unlimited texts, 1GB for -u2.90pm, which suits me fine.-a I reckon that by the time I'd paid the occasional -u10 top-up just to make a couple of calls, particularly when away from home, and then
lost the rest of it through lack of use, it was not very much, if at
all, more expensive just to have a cheap pay monthly contract as above,
and it's so much simpler and more convenient to be able to use the phone
or tablet as and when needed without having to think first: Is there any money left on this thing, and having to go through the fiddle-faddle of topping it up when, inevitably, you find that there isn't!
As I may have mentioned, I stayed with cousins in Glenfinnan over
Hogmanay and some of January, and they had a similar problem.-a The wife
is in a care home, because she has terminal cancer, so their daughter,
who herself lives in Germany, bought a couple of cheap and cheerful non- smart Doro, I think, mobile phones for them, so they could keep in touch with each other more easily.-a However, they were PAYG, and there was a constant problem of renewing them.-a The staff at the home could do the wife's, but the husband's needed someone to be there with the phone, so
had to wait for one of the children to be able to be there to do it,
and, although they live close nearby, they are often away from home.-a So
I suggested to the daughter that a very cheap PAYM contract such as the above might be very much easier all round, and she immediately agreed.
Under her remote direction, I did everything needed to move them over to
the new SIMS while I was staying there.
Although you've given examples that interest you above, you haven't told
us your actual usage, so at best we can only guess at that from your examples, but I'm not going to try.-a Rather, notwithstanding that your needs are more geared to data than calls, I'd advise that you search for something similar but giving more data.-a For example, there's this which gives you 500 mins, 500 texts, and 3GB for an extra -u1pm, so -u3.90pm, which will work out more expensive than your plan, but will certainly be more convenient and easier to manage (note that this is from using a switching site, usually one seems to get better offers that way):
https://www.uswitch.com/mobiles/sim-only- deal/43b6b216a399fc8687511babe4d84754147061df/? position=3&list=compare%2Fsim-only-deals%20- %20promoted&list_loaded_id=2cb363fd-4ff1-4921- ab5d-4d47abc5f9ae&page=compare%2Fsim-only-deals&retailer=spusu-mobile
So, my advice is to shop around the cheapest PAYM contracts.
Greetings - long time no speak. Out of interest in almost all cases per
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