EE Full Works for iPhone - good value?

uvarvu · 16 Dec 2023 at 10:12

When browsing EE phone contracts you can now choose to specify how much to pay up front, right up to paying off the whole handset in full. If you do that then the two year contract works out at around £45pm for an iPhone 15 Pro with 256GB storage. With a 20% code you can reduce the tariff to £36pm.

You’ll get Apple One, Roam Abroad and unlimited full speed data with that deal along with all the other benefits that EE offers iPhone owners:

5G
Advanced Mobile Location (AML)
eSIM
FaceTime over Mobile
LTE
Personal Hotspot
Visual Voicemail
VoLTE
Wi-Fi Calling
Wi-Fi Calling on supported iCloud-connected devices

Good value with a code right? I might go for it when the iPhone 16 series is out.

Deleted member 77746 · 16 Dec 2023 at 10:17

uvarvu said:
Good value with a code right? I might go for it when the iPhone 16 series is out.

Assuming they don’t remove the offer code anytime soon.

Also how much upfront?

ChrisD. · 16 Dec 2023 at 10:41

Don't forget annual price rises.

uvarvu · 16 Dec 2023 at 10:51

Yep, I wouldn’t take such a deal until the new Ofcom rules are enforced. You need to pay the full cost of the phone to get that deal so £1100 up front. Apple One alone costs £18.95pm. So for £17 you’ll get unlimited data and free roaming.

NoobCannon · 16 Dec 2023 at 10:55

Does the op work for EE?

I buy my phone straight from apple can get it on 0% finance if needed and then get a sim only from SMARTY £12 a month, 250gb data (with no restrictions on tethering etc £15 for unlimited data) unlimited mins etc etc and no yearly price increases.

The only thing not on the ops list is visual voice mail (never found this worth laying extra for) and apple 1.

uvarvu · 16 Dec 2023 at 11:14

Haha no. Just thinking ahead is all.

On Smarty can you call anyone on anything other than your iPhone? I think only EE supports that right now and I use that feature a fair bit.

ChrisD. · 16 Dec 2023 at 11:17

uvarvu said:
On Smarty can you call anyone on anything other than your iPhone?

What do you mean exactly?

Reuben klang · 16 Dec 2023 at 11:42

uvarvu said:
Yep, I wouldn’t take such a deal until the new Ofcom rules are enforced. You need to pay the full cost of the phone to get that deal so £1100 up front. Apple One alone costs £18.95pm. So for £17 you’ll get unlimited data and free roaming.

Off topic slightly but what are the new rules?

On the face of that, that deal looks superb.

Reuben klang · 16 Dec 2023 at 11:45

uvarvu said:
Haha no. Just thinking ahead is all.

On Smarty can you call anyone on anything other than your iPhone? I think only EE supports that right now and I use that feature a fair bit.

No you can’t. You need EE for that.

For me its worth paying the bit extra to be able to use everything on your phone.

uvarvu · 16 Dec 2023 at 12:04

ChrisD. said:
What do you mean exactly?

On my Mac or iPad I can enter any number into facetime and make a phone call. If someone rings me I can answer using any device.

Reuben klang said:
Off topic slightly but what are the new rules?

On the face of that, that deal looks superb.

Price increases can still happen but they can’t be linked to inflation. You’ll know up front what the increases will be before starting the contract.

Ofcom proposes ban on inflation-linked mid-contract price rises

Ofcom proposes ban on inflation-linked mid-contract price rises and reveals take-up of social tariffs more than doubled in the last year, but millions remain unaware.

www.ofcom.org.uk

ChrisD. · 16 Dec 2023 at 12:05

uvarvu said:
On my Mac or iPad I can enter any number into facetime and make a phone call. If someone rings me I can answer using any device.

I don't think that's an EE thing, I think that's an Apple thing. I'm on O2 and it works fine.

ChrisD. · 16 Dec 2023 at 12:07

uvarvu said:
Ofcom proposes ban on inflation-linked mid-contract price rises

Ofcom proposes ban on inflation-linked mid-contract price rises and reveals take-up of social tariffs more than doubled in the last year, but millions remain unaware.

www.ofcom.org.uk

It's not good enough to be honest, it should just be banned. A contract is a contract, same as your mortgage or car PCP.

Broken Hope · 18 Dec 2023 at 09:51

ChrisD. said:
I don't think that's an EE thing, I think that's an Apple thing. I'm on O2 and it works fine.

The difference is on EE your phone can be switched off and you can still make and receive calls on other devices.

Other networks require your phone to be on.

ChrisD. · 18 Dec 2023 at 09:53

Broken Hope said:
The difference is on EE your phone can be switched off and you can still make and receive calls on other devices.

Other networks require your phone to be on.

I can see how that would be useful around 0.00001% of the time.