Trout

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All you experts on mobile contracts - tell me who would be the best provider for the following requirements

1,000 minutes in UK mobile/land line average per month

200 minutes calling abroad - US and India mostly

2-400 minutes roaming every other month from US, Switzerland and India

2 x iPhone 4GS

1 UK mobile broadband


I can get good deals on UK calls, been offered the 4GS 32GB for £30 (will not give it to me for free on principle - but I will not pay on principle).

Where the deals hit me hard are roaming in and calling to India.

I am currently with Orange. Bills currently average £120 for a non-roaming month to £250-500 for a roaming month.

Snazy

Surely retentions are the best people to get the best deal? Orange are usually great for retention deals.

mart360

You could try giff gaff...

cracking uk & europe deals.....they do international, but not sure how the costs stack with O


Mart

Jamescsti

I doubt anyone will give you a free iPhone 4gs on a low cost contract to be honest, may have to look at a different handset.

Trout

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I am not sure that paying up to £500 a month is a low cost contract

davyboy

I think you will be hard pressed to get anything inclusive for US or India. Data or voice.

Even in the corporate world, inclusive data for iphones is limited. Global Blackberry data they can do. Any simple iPhone tariff seems limited to Europe only. For the rest of the world, you are better off not using it!

hodgy0_2

wouldn't it make sense to get a local sim

Trout

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That is why I am paying through the nose.

Not interested in BB - and most plans limit calls and roaming in Asia - iPhone or not.

I will just have to get two phones - an iPhone and one of those 1p a minute mobiles to India.

Trout

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Not easy to swap with iPhones.

Snazy

Aaah your loss!

Jamescsti

Sorry misunderstood I thought you were looking to pay £30 per month

Ant

why not pay more monthly seeing as yo go over it every month anyways ?get the phone free

Ant

you seen this trout? any use to you?

http://www.o2.co.uk/internationalfavourites

stevebt

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02 do extra bolt ons to help.

http://www.o2.co.uk/internationalextras

Galifrey

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Get a dual sim converter, they cost about £5, rebooting the phone switches the sim.

http://www.speedydelivery.co.uk/appl...e-4-32gb.shtml has one about half way down the page. Used to use one when I travelled around the middle east.

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http://www.google.co.uk/products/cat...ed=0CFEQ8wIwAQ

I use this for two sims, thus i can have a uk sim and region.

Chop

Trout

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For my UK calls I am within the band. I pay £38 per month for 1400 minutes.

The killer is calls abroad and roaming.

US calls are not too bad; Swiss middling and India is very expensive per minute.

Roaming in India is killer.

J4CKO

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2 Iphone 4GS, dont do it, they will just sit there talking to each other !

Trout

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Got a reasonable deal with Orange in the end.

Had to pay 100 for the handsets but the TCO of the contract was way better than any other operator (64gb and 32gb 4S)

Between the two phones..

£55 month contract - down from £70

1,500 minutes

100m international free

750mb browsing free

500 texts (iMessage negates any value here anyway)

This will reduce annual costs be £500 easily

Snazy

Nice one

davyboy

Thats 100 mins of international calls, not roaming calls?

Trout

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Yes - when I am in the UK I am always calling US and Zurich.

100mins free will make a lot of difference

BlkKnight

have you looked at using a skype app for foreign calls??

Trout

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I do use Skype a lot - super cheap for calling the US and quite cheap for India.

Don't always have a good internet connection and some hotels seem to throttle VOIP applications.