GiffGaff - any users?

Engram said:
Their website seems to focus on "goody-bags" and "top-ups", but I assume you can create the equivalent of a pay-monthly contract with them? (Through their auto-top up?)

I'm very tempted by their "£10 for a month" goody-bag, but I don't want to be fiddling around with top-ups every month.
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You can "pre-load" another £10 bag at any time during the month and it will kick in as soon as the current one runs out.
 
SB118 said:
You can "pre-load" another £10 bag at any time during the month and it will kick in as soon as the current one runs out.
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Ok. And you can do that reload automatically too can't you? Effectively giving you a monthly contract (unless you exhaust the bag early).
 
DanTheMan said:
I get the £10 goodybag every month (250mins/unlimited texts and data) and it truly is unlimited.
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This isn't true, they barred me from the network for 24hrs for what they called "abuse" in relation to data usage.

Was sent an email that basically accused me of using my phone as an access point for another device which is not true.

Had watched the F1 on skygo at work over the weekend but I would hardly call that abuse.
 
I use the £10 goodybag been with them for over a year now. I'd rather pay that than the £35+ a month contract I used to have to pay £25 extra isn't worth the telephone support or "free" phone.
 
Been a user for a year now, not had any issues to be honest. Speeds are fine, network coverage is fine down London as backs of o2.

Exceed over 1gb on a monthly basis so unlimited data is a bliss compared to most tie down offerings these days!
 
Glaucus said:
O2 is poor coverage, I travel all over the south and especially south west. O2 is poor in general. It's why they're spending huge sums on infasteuctire. When I left them a ~year ago, they acknowledged there data service was poor and nothings changed, since going back to them albeit through giffgaff.

Three is not only far cheaper it pounds o2 back to the 10th century.
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I'd agree with that, although my experience with T-Mobile hasn't been much better.

It's what really annoys me about the current push to cloud services (which in theory I love). It's all very well having streaming music services (I use Zune) and "25GB of dropbox" storage instead of a decent amount of memory in the phone, but as soon as you start moving out of the town/city centre (and at times even when you are in those centres) it all goes to pot...

I have a 1 hour commute at the moment and in that one hour less than half of it I can receive 3G signal, almost all of it is when I'm walking. As soon as I get on the train, little signal for 20 minutes, as soon as I get on the tube, no signal for 15 minutes*...

Yeah, streaming off of wifi, fine, but then you're probably sat at home or at your desk, why do you need a phone data signal?!

(Sorry, just a rant about cloud services as a whole and 3G in general...)

*Yes I know why I don't get signal :p
 
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Tarqy said:
Had watched the F1 on skygo at work over the weekend but I would hardly call that abuse.
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3 hours plus constant streaming would be classed as a breach of the abuse policy (I know the last race lasted for more then that) since it could be seen as disrupting the network for other users.

Streaming is allowed as long as it's only for short periods of time.
 
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