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Advice re contracts/PAYG etc for a complete novice

Prm1
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‎31-01-2023 02:19 PM

Hopefully one or more of the wise sages on here will be able to give me some advice.

A bit of background... despite having used mobile phones for over a quarter of a century these have always been employer supplied or passed on from relations.  Additionally I've never had a mobile signal at my rural location so haven't been too worried about smartphone use.  A recently erected mast has made me consider getting into the 21st century and I'm considering my options with EE.

The new phone will be a dual nano sim/esim type.  I intend starting totally afresh with a new mobile number etc.  As I have no experience what the speed/quality of the signal from the mast will be, or of how much data allowance I'll need - I don't think it would be wise to enter into a 12 or 24 month contract straight away.  So my thoughts are:

get a one of the FREE PAY AS YOU GO MOBILE SIM CARDS (shop.ee.co.uk/price-plans/free-sim?) with a brand new number and start afresh. The current deals are:

  1. 5GB Data Pack £10 - 500 Min Unlimited Texts
  2. 15GB Data Pack £15 - Unlimited Min Unlimited Texts
  3. 70GB Data Pack £20 - Unlimited Min Unlimited Texts
  4. 100GB Data Pack £30 - Unlimited Min Unlimited Texts

Then after a month totally move onto a contract which will best serve my needs and utilise the esim facility on the phone.  The question is whether I would now be considered to be an EE customer and as such not entitled to new contract offers that I currently have access to as a BT broadband customer or possibly even stopped from taking a contract offer directly from EE.

Any advice or thoughts regarding the above would be much appreciated.

many thanks

 

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XRaySpeX
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‎31-01-2023 02:42 PM

As an only PAYG cust you will be considered a new cust when ordering a contract SIM. Don't login to MyEE before going to online shop.

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Prm1
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‎31-01-2023 04:35 PM

thanks for the reply xrayspex - good to hear that my plan isn't a non starter.  I do feel that there's a lot of 'smoke and mirrors' when dealing with most of the provider companies,

If anyone has any other thoughts on this I'd love to hear from you

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