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Mobile phones: The sim-ple way to pay less

[2008-7-16]

Tag : SIM Back Up

Are you fed up with paying your mobile phone company a smallfortune each month? Or perhaps you just want cheap call costs, butare reluctant to sign a long contract. If that's you, it could betime to switch to one of the new deals that are set torevolutionise the way we buy mobile airtime. In recent months, all the big mobile phone suppliers have launched,or relaunched, their pay monthly sim-only deals and as a resultthey are now significantly more attractive. One industry insiderwas moved this week to describe some of these deals as offering"fantastic value" for mobile users.

Despite their attractiveness, they are only now starting to moveinto the mainstream, not overly helped by the fact that thecomparison websites have not updated their systems to push theseconsumer-friendly deals.

For the uninitiated, sim-only contracts offer very similar packagesto the expensive pay monthly contracts, but, crucially, without theneed to sign a contract lasting 18 months, and beyond. Those goingsim-only do not, as the name suggests, get a new phone as anincentive. Instead, they are sent a new sim card which can beslotted into the back of their existing handset. T-Mobile, the market leader in the sector, will, for just £20a month, give users 500 minutes talktime plus unlimited texts. For£30 a month you get 1,400 minutes, and as many texts as yourthumbs can manage.

For those who need more talk time, or are looking to pay less,there are other deals out there. All the big networks, bar 3, nowoffer them, with varying prices and call plans.

The beauty of sim-only deals is you can leave at any time with just30 days' notice.

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