How does Pay As You Go Work

Trojan Horse · 17 Apr 2017 at 01:22

I understand the standard, pay £10 in your account and use it up, i.e. calls cost 5p per min, data 5p per mb and so forth.

But is there any way I can say, pay £20 get a bundle of 4gb + etc and then have that 4gb last indefinitely?

I'm a very low usage guy. I've been starting to use spotify a lot more now but I still go nowhere near my 2gb monthly limit on Tesco.

keenan · 17 Apr 2017 at 02:07

Indefinitely, unfortunately no. You can however buy monthly addons like data bindles on PAYG, but they are sadly just monthly..

Unless I am way out of the loop..

Immsy · 17 Apr 2017 at 07:51

On 3 PAYG the credit lasts indefinitely so if you mainly use data like myself then a £20 top up is 2gb worth of data as the data is 1p per mb. For every top up you get 150mb free data so I top up in £5 amounts. So if you top up £20 over 4 top ups you would have effectively 2.6gb of data to use but the free data only lasts 30 days.

Calls are 3p and texts 2p, its a pretty cheap way of running a phone these days, but all depends on your usage.

UTmaniac · 17 Apr 2017 at 08:02

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01M3VJ2B2 was a great deal when ~£30 around Xmas, now sure these days. 24GB data only sim to use over 24 months. Could be a perfect solution if you have a dual sim mobile.

Psycho Sonny · 18 Apr 2017 at 11:31

giffgaff £7.50 goodybag?

tbh how much of a difference is the saving going to make from say a £7.50 monthly deal to 321 pay as you go plan? like £2 a month for all the extra hassle of having to top up manually than have a goodybag recur monthly automatically.

i'm a really low user too, i looked into the 321 plan but couldn't be bothered switching from giffgaff.