I have been with 02 for quite some time now (ages) and have always used pay as you go. I am a very light user in the retired 60+ age bracket but with a 20 year background working in IT. I only send a few texts each week and make very few calls. I benefit from my daughters tendency to upgrade her phone quite a lot and she is about to upgrade again. Under normal circumstances I will just move my sim over to the new phone. However, her old phone can be used as a hot spot and I have an iPad3 that currently has a "3" micro sim installed on pay as you go. It costs £20.49 for a micro sim for 3 gig for 3 months. they are a bit daft as to renew it costs a £10.00 for 1 gig for 1 month thereafter which means I get a new micro sim at the 3 shop and ditch the old sim - wasteful, I know but it makes semse.
I was considering getting a monthly contract with o2 that would cover my calls and texts and also providing me with a data allowance when tethering my iPad up, hopefully of about 1 gig a month. I am also attracted by the BT hot spot availability, it would be nice to link my ipad up with a microsim to the same number though I doubt this will be possible it makes too much sense.
I started going through the options and lost the will to live as they all seem to go part way to what I want and fail at the last fence through either cost or functionality.
Obviously my current position is that I pay about £6.83 for a gig allowance of data a month (with I have to say excellent connectivity just about anywhere) and my phone costs work out to about £6.00 a month. Any advice would be gratefully received.
Cheers and good luck,
Vich
