Consider a pay-as-you go mobile, you’ll save money.

People can still contact you where ever you are, which is the primary benefit of a mobile phone. For that, it does not matter at all which tariff you are using.

Ask yourself this: is your mobile phone absolutely necessary? If the answer is yes, then ask yourself whether you really need all those minutes and texts that come as part of your package. If you hand over £40 a month to your mobile phone company, that’s £480 a year – or around £750 of your gross salary.

But you can buy a pay-as-you-go phone for as little as £30 and only pay for the odd call as and when you need to. Remember that if you pay an expensive tariff with an included, state of the art phone, you are in effect buying that phone over the course of the contract.  When that contract ends, do not for heavens sake, keeps of paying this high monthly tariff. Your mobile phone company gets rich on the backs of their customers not having the most suitable contract and over paying for the service.

If you are finished your contract, phone the company and tell them you want to go pay as you go. Your mobile phone company will have an army of call centre operators ready to try to talk you out of this.

I was on a £35 per month tariff, I told them I wanted to go pay as you go and they offered me a £15 per month tariff and credited my account with 9 months x £15 = £135.
I did not spend a penny of mobile phone calls for 9 months doing this. When this 9 months expired, called then again and they offer me a revised deal.

Why would Mobile phone companies do this?
One factor is that their share price is influenced by financial statements from saying how many contract customers they have. The more contracted customers, the better for the share price.

Also, if you not being advised of the cost of each call as that call finished, you’ll be more likely to spend more making calls.

Share This