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RobertFoster

My dad is spending roughly €40 on credit each month on Vodafone RTG. He's asked me (well, I suggested ) to look into getting onto a bill phone. I've looked at the various price plans on the 4 different networks and Three seems to be the best.

I've let him know about the €25 100 minutes+texts tariff, which would probably suit him best (even though he'd talk more than text...), and the price of the phones also. He didn't realise that he'd have to change his phone. According to him, his Nokia 6100 is the best phone he's ever had. He'd probably get used to the Nokia 6680 (the other phones on Three don't look as good - he doesn't like flip phones), although it might be a bit too big and have too many features he wouldn't use.

Would he have to use a 3G phone in order to be on Three, or could he unlock his 6100 and continue to use that? I wouldn't mind taking over the 6680 if he didn't want it He could have my 6230 if that'd make a difference...

Failing that, anyone have any other suggestions for cutting down on the credit he goes through?

Sam Vimes

to be on 3 you have to have a 3g phone. a 2g one won't accept the sim. and you wouldn't be able to take the 6680 because only three can unlock it and they'll only do it if you pay off the whole years monthly payments. to be honest i don't think 3 would suit him. 40 a month on vodafone is equivalent to about 20 on meteor. get him to switch to meteor for a month or two and see how he likes that.

he can move the number over, he just has to buy a sim pack for €10, he can use the same phone once its unlocked at www.trycktill.com and if he's not satisfied he can go to 3 then. and you can view all your calls on meteor so he can get an idea of where hes spending the most credit. meteor's offers at the mo:
free met-met texts
or
5c met-met calls
or
5c texts to all networks (150 texts for €7.50)

even without these offers they're much cheaper than voda.

long story short, get him to try meteor for a while. if he goes to 3 straight away he'll be stuck in a years contract but he can try met for a month and if he doesn't like it he can go to 3 then

RobertFoster

Thanks Vimes. Didn't think of switching to another PAYG, thought they'd all be more expensive than bill pay.

padraigmyers

Best thing to do is go to www.callcosts.ie, put in the details and they will tell you which is cheapest.

Sam Vimes

RobertFoster wrote:

Thanks Vimes. Didn't think of switching to another PAYG, thought they'd all be more expensive than bill pay.

not necessarily. i have a phone on 3 for calls but my gf likes to text a lot so i have another phone on the meteor free texts. saves me massive amounts