GiffGaff unlimited net/text and 250mins for a tenner?

HighlandeR

HighlandeR

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Whats the catch !?

Im currently with o2, never had any serious issues but had some recent problems with my bills, seems they were charging me £15 extra for internet usage, which I thought I was within the 50meg per day limit !

So anyhow was looking around and saw the GiffGaff tariff, unlimited internet/text is perfect for me since I use whatsapp/sms more and 250mins I perhaps do 60-100 mins per month also.

Anything wrong with them ?
 
HighlandeR said:
Whats the catch !?

Im currently with o2, never had any serious issues but had some recent problems with my bills, seems they were charging me £15 extra for internet usage, which I thought I was within the 50meg per day limit !

So anyhow was looking around and saw the GiffGaff tariff, unlimited internet/text is perfect for me since I use whatsapp/sms more and 250mins I perhaps do 60-100 mins per month also.

Anything wrong with them ?
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I've been on giffgaff for just over a month now, and I've had no problems. I ported my number over from o2, they actually use the o2 network so if you had no reception issues you should still be fine on giffgaff. It is excellent value for money.
 
Sounds like a good idea to me in principle, but only if the O2 network is good in your area. In Norwich, I find it's pretty poor, especially when it comes to 3G congestion and speeds. I am a very heavy data user so I use Three's all-in-one-15 topup. It costs £5 more than GiffGaff but I have found Three's customer services is very good and I get super fast HSDPA+ Internet access. At work, Three gives me 8 - 11 mbit down and 2 - 4 mbit up and I use about 3 - 6 GB /mo.
 
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giff gaff is good value, I changed last year and usually buy the £10 goodybag, sometimes the £5 hokey cokey goodybag which basically gets you unlimited minutes becasue everytime someone calls you the time spent on the phone is added to your minutes.
 
- No phone customer service, but the online "agent" service is more than adequate in my experience.

- Experienced one outage, however, all the details of it were on the website immediately. The forums/blog are very informative. They are generally quite open about website/service issues.
 
jon86 said:
Sounds like a good idea to me in principle, but only if the O2 network is good in your area. In Norwich, I find it's pretty poor, especially when it comes to 3G congestion and speeds. I am a very heavy data user so I use Three's all-in-one-15 topup. It costs £5 more than GiffGaff but I have found Three's customer services is very good and I get super fast HSDPA+ Internet access. At work, Three gives me 8 - 11 mbit down and 2 - 4 mbit up and I use about 3 - 6 GB /mo.
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This is the same as me really.
I found I got extremely poor 3g coverage with giffgaff. At 2 different places of work I could only get EDGE and at home I could only get 3g in one room in my house.
I'm now on 3 and get HSDPA every where I go.
 
I've been with Giffgaff for a few years now and have been truly impressed with them, a few outages but for the price they are unbeatable. Also, when they say "unlimited" they truly to mean unlimited, no fair usage policy.

HighlandeR said:
Wait just realized the 250 minutes is this also included for landline 0208 etc numbers?
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Look here: http://giffgaff.com/index/pricing

Yeah, landlines are included in unlimited calls :)
 
thx, giffgaff sounds awesome it would be even more awesome if there was a way to block anything like wifi/text/calls if it went over your allowance.... that would be the cherry on the top for me lol

wow Free phone numbers (starting 0800, 0808 & 0500) Free :)
 
HighlandeR said:
it would be even more awesome if there was a way to block anything like wifi/text/calls if it went over your allowance....
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It's payg you can't go over your allowance there are data guard apps that control data use and wi fi is free as you piggy back on shared or open systems that are already billed.
 
Sundance said:
- No phone customer service, but the online "agent" service is more than adequate in my experience.

- Experienced one outage, however, all the details of it were on the website immediately. The forums/blog are very informative. They are generally quite open about website/service issues.
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This... But I've had about 3/4 outages since sometime in Q3 last year. The last one was them having problems with the goodybags activating so I couldn't ring/text anyone from morning till about 3pm; this problem was for hundreds of us and wasn't addressed by GG till late in the day.

HighlandeR said:
Voice mail 8p per call ?

so its not free ?
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Voicemail calls are free.. You buy a goodybag and won't have any credit in your account so you won't be able to test picture messages or anything unless you top up your account. This also means you can't be charged for voicemail calls.
 
Planning on switching to Giffgaff once I'm happy with a phone and don't want another one :p. My One X contract runs out in May so hopefully that'll be the route then.
 
thx lots of info on this thread, thats right if its PAYgo u cant really use more then u got right ? and also if it pops up warning your running low and voice mails are free also...
sounding very temping.

Guess just gotta get a decent phone now and move over ;)
 
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