topic Re: SIM only plans in Contracts & Billing

SIM only plans

Profile closed — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 18:44:48 GMT

My issues with EE have been well documented. After 7 weeks or so I’m inching closer to the stress free experience I had w BT.

In an exchange w Exec Complaints today I was told our £8 pm 25Gb/Unltd/Unltd/throttled at 100meg SIM only plans were actually £28pm, reduced by £20pm for multi product.

Are they serious? The standalone price for a basic capped plan, no phone, just a SIM, would be £28 a month!?

Seriously?

Re: SIM only plans

Matt_124 — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 18:50:22 GMT

Probably a non-discounted price plan on their book that they've popped the £20 disc. on to get it at the price you wanted.

What is the contract min. term on the the SIMs @Profile closed ?

Re: SIM only plans

Profile closed — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 20:33:37 GMT

@Matt_124

I've no paperwork. It's all phone stuff. But i suspect it'll be 2 yrs, like the rest of it.

I just couldn't believe that £28pm for such a basic no phone plan was feasible. I think you're right. it's a marketing gimmick without any basis in day to day reality.

BT had a straight £ plan on SIM only. But doubled the data for BB customers. That at least was honest.

Re: SIM only plans

Matt_124 — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 20:54:56 GMT

Bit like the Multi Product SIMs from £10.

The No Frills is a 10 Mbps £30 Unlimited SIM on a 30 day tariff discounted by £20 to make it a tenner.

Still good if you can get a plan that cheap with a main MNO these days regardless of how you get it tbf, market has changed massively unfortunately.

Re: SIM only plans

Profile closed — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 21:35:57 GMT

Seems so, although this was the 1st result I got searching on cheap SIM only.

2yr, 30Gb/Unltd/Unltd, inc Roaming, £14.99 standalone 🤷🏼

Re: SIM only plans

Matt_124 — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 21:44:31 GMT

Image hasn't been approved so don't know where it's from, but on EE One with Multi Product Benefits you can get a £16 UNL/UNL/UNL SIM with EU Roaming on a 30-day term so there's still some great value there for a network that is normally pretty pricey. Obviously as we were talking before, it's a £36 SIM with a 20 quid discount, but still a cracker.

Re: SIM only plans

Profile closed — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 21:58:16 GMT

It was O2, standalone, couldn’t see any mention of throttling. 30gjg w roaming. Seemed good value to me. Almost half the price with more data and roaming. I think EE’s full price plan £28 for mine is notional.

Re: SIM only plans

Matt_124 — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 22:10:27 GMT

Different networks structure things differently, O2 (and most of their and other MVNOs) seem heavily focused on acquisition and use roaming and low cost SIM offers as the cornerstone of their pitch to try and improve their market share and retain what they can.

There is less of a focus on the quality of their network and, even if they had speed caps, they have such congestion and poor infrastructure (at least in my experience when I was with them and through family more recently) that you would struggle to reach those speed caps apart from in select urban areas.

Yeah the plan you are on is 100% not a tariff that EE are actively marketing to consumers, just a backbook retentions one they can use to discount to an appropriate level. Doesn't matter how they get down there if they can get there.

In fairness the full prices of the Multi Product Plans are notional too, as EE don't sell 30 day Unlimited tariffs for those £30, £33, £36, £42 and £48 price points to someone without EE Broadband and then they're discounted £20.

Re: SIM only plans

Profile closed — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 22:19:38 GMT

Interesting background . Thanks 👍