For those that don't use their mobiles as much as everyone else and want to pay the cheapest price possible while still getting a good service. Service is provided by the EE network.
Tariff Mini;
500 Minutes
500 Texts
500MB Data
Just £4.95 Per Month!
I've already seen the £6 a month deal which is £1.05 more, yes you get more but it depends what people use, for people like my father and grandad, 500 minutes and 500 texts is more than enough for them. :)
Quidco cashback also available (Not sure how that works) Quidco tracked at £5 thanks to philmitchell
Top comments
b1g1an
15 Jan 167#2
Poor compared to the £6 deal that's been posted loads of times.
matty_private
15 Jan 166#5
But you said poor compared, this is actually a much better deal for some people
It's just a 30 day contract, u can leave anytime, the acquisition was given the green light today. The official paperwork and terms etc is about to begin, they are still separate companies. In my opinion there will be no implications whatsoever on Life Mobile. They will lime EE turn a deliberate blind eye at Life Mobile and it's operations after the acquisition.
All comments (107)
philmitchell
15 Jan 161#1
This would be great for my daughter .
b1g1an
15 Jan 167#2
Poor compared to the £6 deal that's been posted loads of times.
matty_private to b1g1an
15 Jan 163#3
The £6 deal is £1.05 more a month, yes you get more but it depends what you use, my father and grandad hardly use their phones so 500 minutes and texts is way more than enough for them. £4.95 per month, can't complain
mrew42 to b1g1an
15 Jan 162#7
It may be poor(er) value, but it's definitely cheaper.
b1g1an
15 Jan 16#4
Indeed, wasn't suggesting otherwise, just not as good value.
matty_private
15 Jan 166#5
But you said poor compared, this is actually a much better deal for some people
mrew42
15 Jan 161#6
Cracking deal
Heat
matty_private to mrew42
15 Jan 16#11
Thank you :smiley:
JonBetts2004
15 Jan 161#8
Whoops, sorry I voted cold instead of hot :neutral_face:
b1g1an
15 Jan 16#9
It is but you seem determined to argue about personal suitability which is entirely different.
If you want to be picky why did you post a long standing standard price contract as a new deal?
matty_private
15 Jan 161#10
Because it's never been posted on Hotukdeals? :man:
DominikB
15 Jan 163#12
Calm down people, deal much much better than what we've seen in last few years. I wish these deals and mvno operators were available earlier.
Anyone tried to get tariff with decent amount of data for less than £13 three years ago...
mrew42
15 Jan 162#13
I for one wasn't aware of this 'deal'
Thanks again OP.
Solly92
15 Jan 162#14
Then they should be on PAYG which costs nothing per month if you make no calls. Three's 321 probably.
philmitchell
15 Jan 161#15
Same here . I signed up and it will do for what she needs .
matty_private
15 Jan 161#16
They do make calls and texts but the minimum they can top up is £10, that's obviously more than £4.95. Of course they could not top up but then they won't be able to make any calls or texts... :smiley:
mrew42
15 Jan 16#17
Yep. Set up your DD and then forget about it, without the worry about top ups expiring, running out of 'credit' etc etc. A great and cheap insurance policy IMHO
FrugalFergal
15 Jan 163#18
Im with these guys on the £6 deal. Even this deal is amazing for essentially 1p per minute calls and 1p per MB of data. Their £6 deal gives you 1500 minutes and 1GB of data.
Who would have thought just a few years ago we could be paying as little as £6pm for such value?
I actually signed up to use this as an 'emergency phone' until I got a shocking £70+ bill from Three who I had been with for 13 yrs for going over my call allowance by 100 minutes! I quickly cancelled that contract and just stuck with Life where I'm getting 7.5x the minutes for less than half the monthly cost of my old network with almost no commitment.
alcurtis93 to FrugalFergal
17 Jan 16#87
three back in the day had better deals than this. My friend has unlimited everything for £12
philmitchell
15 Jan 162#19
Quidco tracked at £5 .
matty_private to philmitchell
15 Jan 16#20
Thanks i'll put that in the description :smiley:
rhinorogers29
15 Jan 16#21
Cold £6 deal better for the sake of a few quid
matty_private to rhinorogers29
15 Jan 16#22
My father and grandad will never use that amount of minutes texts or data and they'll be well within with this deal so why pay more when you can pay less??? :confused:
decanay
15 Jan 163#23
Agreed, not for me, but definitely hot. If your usage fits into this package, this is a great deal, why pay more?
Gollywood
15 Jan 16#24
What a strange thread!!
matty_private to Gollywood
15 Jan 16#28
Seen a lot stranger! :laughing:
lookatmywad
15 Jan 161#25
Hopefully won't go the way of Ovivo.
LittleChimp
15 Jan 16#26
If your father is a low user it might be better to get him a three 321 sim. My mum uses about 2-3 pound of credit a month this way.
matty_private to LittleChimp
15 Jan 16#27
But don't you have to top up by £10 to get credit, he wants to have credit to call & text but still not pay more than he has to
matty_private
15 Jan 16#29
Another thing for signing my father up to this is he can now qualify for the lloyds classic plus account with him having two rather than one direct debit :laughing:
texaspetey
15 Jan 16#30
Is this company any good? How likely are they to increase their prices once you are in? Thanks.
pablobanez
15 Jan 161#31
Who are Life Mobile?
matty_private to pablobanez
15 Jan 161#32
In a nutshell
LIFE Mobile is a virtual network established in 2013, and now owned and operated by the EE mobile network. It uses UK call centres to provide customer support.
pablobanez
15 Jan 16#33
Cheers
for explaining, didnt know!
den169
15 Jan 161#34
You can top up £5 on 3 network.And as long as you make a call once in every 6 months any credit stays there
.
Solly92
15 Jan 162#35
Don't think the OP understands PAYG or finance much.
Soon to be owned by BT so fingers crossed for Life Mobile and their cheap deals staying around.
LucasZ
15 Jan 162#36
To whom it may interest,
Few days ago I have applied for the cheapest £4.95 one. TCB tracked no probs.
Just transferred my number to LIFE. Took less than 24hrs to migrate from Voda.
UK based CallCentre, have put £1 cap and enabled roaming. No probs.
It is a 3G but as they say, better good 3G signal strength than weakish 4G.
Here is a proof, took it 10min ago, Nottingham, NG5 area:
LucasZ
15 Jan 16#37
^^^ dat is from Z3 Compact
Kloppenhagen
15 Jan 16#38
not to cause a stir, but what is the £6 deal people are referring to?
To be owned by BT? Expect t the UK call centre to be shut & moved to India. :disappointed:
slipd
15 Jan 16#42
Is this a rolling 1 month contract?
matty_private to slipd
16 Jan 16#63
Yes
rhinorogers29
15 Jan 16#43
EE now owed by BT as from today good luck everyone lol
Timmylad1975 to rhinorogers29
15 Jan 16#53
Umm no they are not. They have simply been given the go ahead with all regularity parties happy that this will be of no detrimental effect to the other big 3 networks.
Remember Hutchinson Whampoa (3's parent company) are due to complete the purchase of o2 from Telefonica Spain very soon.
rhinorogers29
15 Jan 16#44
Yes 1 month contract set up direct debit, no credit check done but checked noodle and there are reporting it so good if you need to repair your credit
JuniorAK
15 Jan 161#45
thanks to the OP. i hadnt heard of, or seen any of the other LIFE mobile deals. will def look into it.
Leonardo
15 Jan 161#46
Thanks OP, perfect for me!
Rich069
15 Jan 16#47
Been this for months, and is the normal price for this tarif with Life.
matty_private to Rich069
16 Jan 16#64
Maybe so but there's plenty of people that don't know about it
snipa
15 Jan 16#48
Was going to go for this over anything from iD mobile given the better reviews but seeing as BT have just acquired them, I wonder what the repercussions will be?
Great deal on paper for now, though.
opaninkofi to snipa
15 Jan 163#49
It's just a 30 day contract, u can leave anytime, the acquisition was given the green light today. The official paperwork and terms etc is about to begin, they are still separate companies. In my opinion there will be no implications whatsoever on Life Mobile. They will lime EE turn a deliberate blind eye at Life Mobile and it's operations after the acquisition.
shudidesai
15 Jan 16#50
Is the one-off £6.99 deal not better?
leebad
15 Jan 16#51
forgot about who owned who. if you are low user, three 321 sim is best choose. this is just a mathematic things.
DontRun
15 Jan 163#52
Yes but if they don't make MANY calls and texts, it's cheaper to top up £10 every 4-6 months for example on the 123 plan than it is to pay £4.95 EVERY month
All depends on your usage. If you're topping up more than £10 every 2 months then that's your break even point and you'd be better off on this
zhoar
15 Jan 16#54
Nice for kids
matty_private to zhoar
16 Jan 16#55
And the elderly
sdduk2
16 Jan 16#56
can't see the Whampoa deal going though to many people against it.
Was reading somewhere BT are keeping the EE brand and not changing much whether that changes when they get there grubby hands on it who knows but may be thats part of the deal that they won't be able to change anything for a couple of years that can only be good for there customers.
matty_private
16 Jan 161#57
All this takeover talk and customers getting worried, i wouldn't be too worried. As a business they'll take a year or two to assess where EE are doing well and also not so well. Certain deals / promotions will close and other new doors will open, just the same as any other takeover it's usually for the better. Put it this way BT won't intentionally take the business backwards, they'll be wanting to progress and make the business better than it is
pengwyn
16 Jan 16#58
I can't see the appeal of these deals. You would've been much better with a 10 gbp Ee 100gb / 2 months and stack it. It's 50 mind texts for 1St month and sip client the second month absolute zero freezing for me these ee sims have created a home broadband sweet spot for the average 50gb month users.
princeprecious
16 Jan 16#59
so when this company is closing down after selling loads of plastic pieces. :disappointed:
jaydeeuk1
16 Jan 161#60
And topping up in multiple £5 rather than £10/20 is better as you get 100mb data or so for each topup.
matty_private
16 Jan 16#61
£4.95 gives you 500mb rather than 100mb everytime you top up £5.
Yes the credit stays on if you've not used it but what about the freedom of being able to use the mobile without having to worry 'oh I'm down to my last 40p', got to be careful with that :laughing:
Another thing is this deal works out 1p per call, text & mb. If you are on a pay&go tariff they charge you a lot more than 1p per call, text & mb
matty_private
16 Jan 16#62
Course you could have a mobile and not use it at all. Not really much point though :wink:
Can understand why, like if they only have it to be contacted and that's it. Pay&go is pretty damn good for that
hukduserr
16 Jan 161#65
im on the 6 quids deal and highly recommend Life mobile. makes my life better now. saving 4 quids monthly.
matty_private to hukduserr
16 Jan 16#66
Can you tell us about the connectivity inside and outside the house, as it should be?
rhysjones2
16 Jan 16#67
Perfect. haven't seen this before. thanks OP. :smiley:
skelto99
16 Jan 16#68
And you have to have a smart phone with 321, which my mum definitely couldn't handle. Then actually buy a smart phone.
alcurtis93
16 Jan 16#69
The ID mobile deal is better. 1gb data
Anon32 to alcurtis93
18 Jan 16#97
But you can't tether on that so it might not be better for some
Solly92
16 Jan 161#70
And 1p per minute is way more expensive than the 0.4p per minute from the £6 Life deal you keep saying is too expensive.
If we just consider minutes this deal is right for the small group of people who always use more than 150 and always less than 500 minutes per month. If less Three PAYG is better if more the Life £6 deal and since the £6 deal is only £1.05 more for an extra 1000 minutes and 500G it is a no brainer for anyone who thinks they may be at the upper end of the 500 minutes.
li0nhead
16 Jan 16#71
Agrees, same with my parents, they top up a tenner every 3 months or so on Giffgaff so unless a contract under £3 P/M comes up offering what they use then I will stick with that.
Rooker
16 Jan 16#72
Just wondered whether anyone knows whether this SIM card would work in a phone locked to EE.
salehunt to Rooker
16 Jan 16#73
It should work on as same network
opaninkofi to Rooker
16 Jan 16#81
sure it will work on a phone locked to ee. Life mobile is EE, just like t mobile and orange
Mathematically
Orange + T-mobile + Life mobile = EE
jnm21
16 Jan 16#74
Anyone know if they allow tethering? Can't see a yes or a no in the T&Cs.
Solly92 to jnm21
16 Jan 161#82
If it doesn't say no assume yes. I have seen it confirmed on a 3rd party web site and tried it although not for much more than proving it worked.
joneeboy
16 Jan 16#75
I don't agree. BT will have certainly carried out due diligence prior to making any bid for EE. As it appears to be a friendly takeover bid, EE's books will have been fully opened to BT scrutiny. I doubt BT will be rushing to increase rates, especially as the EU regulator is chasing all mobile companies to reduce rates.
Hutchinson Whampoa is a completely different kettle of fish. It was one of Hong Kong's oldest companies but since mid 2015 has been part of CK Huchison Holdings, chaired by muti-billinaire Li Ka-shing, and already the world's biggest phone network operator, and world's biggest a few more things. May be the European regulator will block it's attempts to buy O2, though I doubt it, as it has approved BT's deal. Who knows?
wildecat
16 Jan 161#76
If they aren't using bundles on GiffGaff then its very poor value.
3 or even Tesco PAYG lite will be cheaper.
taz.hasan
16 Jan 16#77
Go through uswitch and it's only £4/m. It doesn't show in the uswitch site so call life mobile and they honour it.
slipd to taz.hasan
16 Jan 16#79
Really, so just £4 a month? Did you call their general sales number and just ask?
slipd
16 Jan 16#78
I take it you can PAC your number over to them as well? Anyone here had any experience of this - I'd be doing it for my Dad but I need it to be as painless as poss :smirk:
taz.hasan
16 Jan 16#80
I called the 0800 number, and you can port your existing number
jnm21
16 Jan 16#83
Thanks - agree that it should be OK if not stated, but the old saying fools rush in comes to mind! They do state that they allow VOIP, which is another good sign.
EDIT: Have emailed them as I can't find them on twitter.
Rooker
16 Jan 16#84
Cheers guys thanks for the reply, I'll have some of that
dks1968
17 Jan 16#85
heat added.
taz.hasan
17 Jan 16#86
You can't whack it, 30 day notice period to cancel, reduce the cap to £1 (default is £5), and no surprises.
So all you need is to invent a time machine to beat this deal?
Back in the day say 20 years ago my food bill was less than today, do I vote cold on any deal involving food? No.
jcc1
17 Jan 163#90
Emailed them as to whether tethering was allowed on the £4.95 plan, their response was yes.
matty_private
17 Jan 16#91
With only 500mb of data, if you tether your allowance would get used up very quickly. Even with 1GB of data that'll get eaten up very quick
jnm21
17 Jan 16#92
That statement may largely be true, but technically it is wrong. I tether my laptop to my phone & (admittedly using it sensibly in that knowledge), 500Mb would actually last a fair while (I think it is about 20MB per hour for emails, HUKD, etc.). Don't forget it could be another mobile you are tethering, so usage would be the same.
FrugalFergal
18 Jan 16#94
Does any one have any experience dealing with ID mobile? I was wondering how they might compare to Life mobile in terms of quality of service, connection and reliability?
matty_private to FrugalFergal
18 Jan 161#95
ID mobile have shocking service, overcharging people by mistake. Read the comments Here. Life mobile service is much better (Apparently) :smiley:
matty_private
18 Jan 16#96
So after 25 hours you'll be out of data
FrugalFergal
18 Jan 16#98
For anyone who does take this deal, make sure you contact customer services and put your credit limit down to £1 so you don't have any nasty surprises.
live4less
19 Jan 16#99
They will take over the main network providers soon. I'm waiting for my contract to run out then join them.
jnm21 to live4less
19 Jan 162#101
At these prices, consider joining now in case the price goes up - say you want the £6 tariff: 2 months at £6 vs a £1.95 price rise if the uswitch deal stops - you would be in profit from month 7.
As for the take over, I think you meant over take (they are owned by EE, so unlikely to take over any other network).
Finally I heard back from them - a very helpful reply & confirmed that tethering is available on all sim only. The speed (2 working days) & polite/competent reply both make them worthy of consideration in my book. They had never heard of the £4 uswitch version of the £4.95 tariff. All 3 are still a good deal; £4.95 (0.5GB), £6 (1GB) & £10 (3GB). Strange how we have gone from looking at the number of minutes to virtually ignoring them - I remember 'cross-network' minutes being unheard of & being glad when I new a new acquaintance was on the same network!
LucasZ
19 Jan 16#100
Just to let you know Deer Members,
To make international calls you have to eneble it by calling them on 500. Otherwise you wont be able to make calls abroad
When you call them i suggest to enable roaming, international calls and put spending cap down to £2 (or whatever suits you) all in one go. It takes a minute and you save yourself a nasy surprise when sunbathing in Caribbean :-)
jnm21
21 Jan 16#102
You do realise that many (most?) people either have WI-FI at home or don't spend 25 hours online a month?
rose71
23 Jan 16#103
Bought 2 life sim cards through uswitch for £6 each for myself and my daughter. Ordered on Thursday and arrived next day - early morning - sick of paying huge amounts on 2 year contracts.
tmpppr
26 Jan 16#104
Having problems connecting to 3G and GPRS with Life Mobile since joining this week. The Tweakker site to set up no longer works and unable to edit my APN settings on IOS 9. How have others got around this?
hukduserr
27 Jan 16#105
sorry, i dont use the internet at all because i can pop in two sim cards in my phone. i use EE data :smiley: otherwise i can vouch for life mobile. cheappppppp
Chiptivo
1 Feb 16#106
What is the £6 deal?
tallerguy
9 Feb 16#107
Topcashback of £5.05 available on the mini tariff too. Good find OP.
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Opening post
Tariff Mini;
500 Minutes
500 Texts
500MB Data
Just £4.95 Per Month!
I've already seen the £6 a month deal which is £1.05 more, yes you get more but it depends what people use, for people like my father and grandad, 500 minutes and 500 texts is more than enough for them. :)
Quidco cashback also available (Not sure how that works) Quidco tracked at £5 thanks to philmitchell
Top comments
http://www.uswitch.com/mobiles/sim_only_deal/0d5d547682db0a32d14a0c8b0d8e2a7619dd85af?page=%2Fmobiles%2Fnetworks%2Flife-mobile%2Fsim_only_deals%2F&position=4
1500min, unl txt, 1GB data
All comments (107)
Heat
If you want to be picky why did you post a long standing standard price contract as a new deal?
Anyone tried to get tariff with decent amount of data for less than £13 three years ago...
Thanks again OP.
Who would have thought just a few years ago we could be paying as little as £6pm for such value?
I actually signed up to use this as an 'emergency phone' until I got a shocking £70+ bill from Three who I had been with for 13 yrs for going over my call allowance by 100 minutes! I quickly cancelled that contract and just stuck with Life where I'm getting 7.5x the minutes for less than half the monthly cost of my old network with almost no commitment.
LIFE Mobile is a virtual network established in 2013, and now owned and operated by the EE mobile network. It uses UK call centres to provide customer support.
for explaining, didnt know!
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Soon to be owned by BT so fingers crossed for Life Mobile and their cheap deals staying around.
Few days ago I have applied for the cheapest £4.95 one. TCB tracked no probs.
Just transferred my number to LIFE. Took less than 24hrs to migrate from Voda.
UK based CallCentre, have put £1 cap and enabled roaming. No probs.
It is a 3G but as they say, better good 3G signal strength than weakish 4G.
Here is a proof, took it 10min ago, Nottingham, NG5 area:
http://www.uswitch.com/mobiles/sim_only_deal/0d5d547682db0a32d14a0c8b0d8e2a7619dd85af?page=%2Fmobiles%2Fnetworks%2Flife-mobile%2Fsim_only_deals%2F&position=4
1500min, unl txt, 1GB data
Remember Hutchinson Whampoa (3's parent company) are due to complete the purchase of o2 from Telefonica Spain very soon.
Great deal on paper for now, though.
All depends on your usage. If you're topping up more than £10 every 2 months then that's your break even point and you'd be better off on this
Was reading somewhere BT are keeping the EE brand and not changing much whether that changes when they get there grubby hands on it who knows but may be thats part of the deal that they won't be able to change anything for a couple of years that can only be good for there customers.
:disappointed:
Yes the credit stays on if you've not used it but what about the freedom of being able to use the mobile without having to worry 'oh I'm down to my last 40p', got to be careful with that :laughing:
Another thing is this deal works out 1p per call, text & mb. If you are on a pay&go tariff they charge you a lot more than 1p per call, text & mb
Can understand why, like if they only have it to be contacted and that's it. Pay&go is pretty damn good for that
If we just consider minutes this deal is right for the small group of people who always use more than 150 and always less than 500 minutes per month. If less Three PAYG is better if more the Life £6 deal and since the £6 deal is only £1.05 more for an extra 1000 minutes and 500G it is a no brainer for anyone who thinks they may be at the upper end of the 500 minutes.
Mathematically
Orange + T-mobile + Life mobile = EE
Hutchinson Whampoa is a completely different kettle of fish. It was one of Hong Kong's oldest companies but since mid 2015 has been part of CK Huchison Holdings, chaired by muti-billinaire Li Ka-shing, and already the world's biggest phone network operator, and world's biggest a few more things. May be the European regulator will block it's attempts to buy O2, though I doubt it, as it has approved BT's deal. Who knows?
3 or even Tesco PAYG lite will be cheaper.
EDIT: Have emailed them as I can't find them on twitter.
Click monthly cost & scroll down.
Back in the day say 20 years ago my food bill was less than today, do I vote cold on any deal involving food? No.
As for the take over, I think you meant over take (they are owned by EE, so unlikely to take over any other network).
Finally I heard back from them - a very helpful reply & confirmed that tethering is available on all sim only. The speed (2 working days) & polite/competent reply both make them worthy of consideration in my book. They had never heard of the £4 uswitch version of the £4.95 tariff. All 3 are still a good deal; £4.95 (0.5GB), £6 (1GB) & £10 (3GB). Strange how we have gone from looking at the number of minutes to virtually ignoring them - I remember 'cross-network' minutes being unheard of & being glad when I new a new acquaintance was on the same network!
To make international calls you have to eneble it by calling them on 500. Otherwise you wont be able to make calls abroad
When you call them i suggest to enable roaming, international calls and put spending cap down to £2 (or whatever suits you) all in one go. It takes a minute and you save yourself a nasy surprise when sunbathing in Caribbean :-)