folks are coming back from thailand and settling in harrogate area (knaresborough). i set them up with a £10 giffgaff sim (they already have a decent phone so sim only required) but the reception is awful so they need an alternative now.

the giffgaff ‘goodybag’ was ideal, they just need moderate minutes/texts/data on a rolling monthly deal and ideally be able to cancel if they dont get decent service. theyve been told by people in the area that virgin and vodafone have decent signals there.

any advice on the nearest deal to the giffgaff jobby please?

Lebara (Vodafone), not sure about Virgin. Guess Virgin uses O2, if not T-mobile. The best deal out there are from Lyca mobile, but they use O2.

Sainsbury mobile runs over Vodafone and offers similar deals to Giff-gaff but maybe not so good on the data side.

http://www.phoneshopbysainsburys.co.uk/bundle

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Kingdom_mobile_virtual_network_operators may help to see which networks the cheaper providers use.

great stuff, thanks chaps. currently getting folks to choose between virgin and lebara 🙂 deals look the same apart from twice the amount of minutes with lebara.

Tesco?

think tesco is on the O2 network, same as giffgaff.

Arent Vodafone & O2 sharing masts these days?

Virgin sim 30 day sim only are cheap and use Orange/T-Mobile masts.

Clicky.

dont know about the sharing mast thing mate, but theyve been told vodas fine up there and theyve found that O2 isnt.

thats the virgin sim deal theyre looking at breadcrumb, thanks 🙂