Offers been going for a month, here's the previous thread, the comments may be useful for people:

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/life-mobile-6-00-sim-only-30-day-unlimited-text-1500-minutes-1gb-data-2335539


They also have 3000mins + unlimited texts + 3GB of data for £10 p/m:

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/life-mobile-sim-only-1-month-contract-3000-minutes-3gb-data-unlimited-texts-smart-2357226

Contracts can be capped too and you can set the buffer to as low as £1 by giving CS a call.

Hope that helps :smiley:

Better 3G is better than a mediocre 4G service

This is a good deal

Been with them for 3 months. Used voicemail all the while. Never had any additional charges on the bill so voicemail must come out of your minutes.

Bought for my Dad last month - not a heavy data user.

3G but rumour of 4G next month/year and possibly an app.

No problems except making sure the DDebit is setup correctly, signal is very good and customer service is great.

Excellent deal purchased one for my daughter last month for her new phone at Christmas. Just a heads up you don't need to unlock your phone if you are on EE.

Seems good, on EE, owned by EE and cheap, caps can be applied, not sure what's not to like?

cheers to op

is it 3G or 4G data.

Anyone know if you can port your number?

I have this - signal not as good as vodafone - but cheap, cheerful etc

Offers been going for a month, here's the previous thread, the comments may be useful for people:

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/life-mobile-6-00-sim-only-30-day-unlimited-text-1500-minutes-1gb-data-2335539


They also have 3000mins + unlimited texts + 3GB of data for £10 p/m:

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/life-mobile-sim-only-1-month-contract-3000-minutes-3gb-data-unlimited-texts-smart-2357226

Contracts can be capped too and you can set the buffer to as low as £1 by giving CS a call.

Hope that helps :smiley:

Bought for my Dad last month - not a heavy data user.

3G but rumour of 4G next month/year and possibly an app.

No problems except making sure the DDebit is setup correctly, signal is very good and customer service is great.

Been offered twice in last 4-5 weeks via uswitch. Posted both times on HUKD

Can't fault them. When compared to the bigger networks the UK based customer services is streets ahead & that's a main selling point for me

My friend just got this sim only deal 24/12/2015 from talkmobile
Large 12 month SIM Only
£10.00 a month
3000 minutes
5000 text
4GB Data
12 months .
They say on web site they dont increase prices for the 12 month term of contract.
When he rang them they said its 4G data.They use vodafone network i believe.

For the money this is hard to fault. OK 4G would be nice, but realistically it's not a massive loss as you won't be streaming much with 1gb of data and most other things won't change massively.

Any idea if 4G will be free or will incur an additional monthly charge? I see its scheduled to be added next year.

talk mobile isn't 4g

I'm currently with giffgaff but like nearly everyone else I know on giffgaff I'm getting seriously frustrated with the unusable data. 2 days ago I did a speed test on giffgaff 4g and pulled 675kbps.
I am not looking for ultra fast data but something that doesn't enables me to download a 6mb app in more than 8 minutes.
Think I'll give this a go

Souinds good. Will this sim work in a tablet to use the data allowance? Also can you tether with the sim? Thanks.

I have this just waiting for number to port

Can be done all by email, very quick response by email

What is ' 30 days get out of mobile jail free as well'? - I can't see it on website. Thanks.

I also would like to know it. I've been with Life Mobile for a month and I don't know anything about it

does anyone else has problems with the card payment?

ID mobile double data deal is better if you use more data than calls.

Awesome deal!

>>>>>
Simple tongue in cheek reference to the benefit of using a 30day mobile sim.. you are not
locked in, tied in, up the swanee with a 24mth phone contract, that is stuck at the same
rip off price every month..

If the 30 day price changes, you can simply go elsewhere for free ;-)

Is 079249 included in life mobile minutes
Also I knw some networks charge but I knw virgin mobile they include the minutes

Customer services told me they could be 4G next year when I moaned about how to find out the useage.

Personally I would not buy this sim for the data, it is awesome for calls and text.

Been waiting nearly 2 weeks to get number ported from post office to life mobile

Better 3G is better than a mediocre 4G service

This is a good deal

I guess I am probably one of those then, will try to give them a call in the morning. Thanks

Been with them for a month no problems have mates paying 3 times this amount for less minutes , seems they think its too good to be true, you can lead a horse to water but cant make it drink

Just a cautionary note. My daughter received her sim and got her PAC code from TPO. Gave the PAC code to LIFE over three weeks ago but, they have yet to transfer her number across. Any longer and may report this to OFCOM.

thanks

A good point.

The issue with porting a number in via a PAC is definitely a Life Mobile issue and seems to be worse for those who were on an EE based virtual network before e.g Post Office. Life Mobile have ruined MY LIFE for over 3 weeks now with my 10 year old number stuck their end for over 2 weeks now meaning whenever anyone calls they simply get "Sorry you have dialled an incorrect number". I have made a formal complaint and expect this to end up at the communications ombudsman as per their processes :neutral_face:

So Voda will have 4G coverage in all 2G areas ?

http://talkmobile.co.uk/about-talkmobile/signal

He went with topcashback i think for £47. ish

Ported over from T-Mobile a a week or so ago. Took 2 days from when they started the port, to port over. Signal seems to be better than what I had before. Can't comment long term, but I'm very happy so far :smile:

good deal.
wonder how the coverage fairs

If something is Simonly is it a bit like a Simon?

I'm the same situation it will 2 weeks from Wednesday and still my no hasn't been ported over and they can't say when it will be from the Post office

They are aware of the problem regarding the pac numbers, because TPO/Post Office/Life are on EE network they all use the TSL pac codes and there system obviously cant cope. The IT team are working to resolve it and being the Christmas period hasn't helped. They were quite honest about it when i rang which i appreciated but we just opted for a new number, less complicated

I had the problem paying up using a credit card. The customer care informed their website is having problems with Credit card at the moment and the workaround is to use debit card. That worked for me.

silly questions as I can not see it on there.
but can you cancel when you want and it's only £6.00!!
HOTHOT
it's for my mum who only really wants pay as you go but for this much its a bargain.

good deal but its the same deal that has already been posted.
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/life-mobile-6-00-sim-only-30-day-unlimited-text-1500-minutes-1gb-data-2335539

I did read the Op's post but just sceptical about these things. sorry. but after the 30days what happens from then on? just needed some help that is all

My old man has cancelled his landline add on which was £8 a month.

Bought this instead.

Still have the landline rental but saves £2 a month and freedom to walk about.

Landlines are dying a slow death.

Yep, I got rid of ours 3 years ago.

I have an EE Signal box which is connected to my home broadband.

Anyone know if this is likely to work with the Life Mobile SIM card as well?

Thanks for the confirmation. That's Life Mobile out for me then, as I have a very poor EE reception at home unless I stand by the window. Looks like iD Mobile for me.

Don't do it!! Have you read the reviews on iD Mobile? They're so bad that a new word needs to be invented to describe just how bad they are!

​iD? All reviews are horrific. You have been warned

That's why I went with this deal for my personal sim http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/unlimited-minutes-texts-6gb-data-ee-mobilephonesdirect-2359163?p=26937045

If you have wifi capable phone then it will support wifi calling which negates then use of any home signal box.

Only a handful of EE phones support it currently and all iPhones, 5s onwards support it.

From what Im reading EE is the provider to be on over next Couple of years, they are rolling out VoLTE too

Ah, hadn't realised. It's only a 30 day contract and I received £5.05 cashback through TCB, so will try it for a month and decide if I stay or go else where.

I am already on EE and the upgrade deals they offered me were useless, so hence have my PAC code. I did see some of the deals on mobilephonesdirect, but you can't transfer to them directly if you are already on EE, so moving to ID Mobile for month, then back to EE should work out ok.

If life mobile gets 4g then it will be at a higher cost price....no way ee which owns life mobile will allow the price to drop of 4g.

I give it till Feb before the price increase kicks in.

Fair enough, ive read people have got some great deals from EE retentions, maybe give them a call again and. See what they can offer you. May get lucky

My PO line seems to be disconnected today but the life mobile number hasn't changed to the number I want to keep.

Great price but Ee drop signals in my city

"You can set your buffer by calling customer service on 0800 from another phone"

Looks like 0800 isn't free then.. Next.

Small print always makes me nervous. I'm on GiffGaff PAYG and a tenner does me fine. Would love to get more for less but the hassle of being tied in with my long time number if it doesn't work out makes me nervous - especially when the little things that matter like the calls that DO cost you an arm and leg on mobiles (0800, 0845, 0300 and 0870) have to be taken into account. SayNoto0870 has been a life saver finding 0800 and local numbers for me, but companies are getting more and more clever and devious leaving these dead numbers around or telling their staff to tell you to ring the national rate numbers.

I avoid insuring my car with any company that can't provide me with a number I can call from my Giffgaff included minutes. Swiftcover have both.

35 per minute to retrieve Answer phone messages??!

on gg presently. going for this, but wonder if the ID deal is better? either way, both are cheaper than gg

id mobile with 1gb 4g is good....although 250 minutes...£5.

£7.50 with 2gig data on id mobile with 4G data...life mobile goes up to £7.95 after 1st month.

Hullomail I don't think will work as it is a MVNO provider - tried this yesterday

1st month is promotional....just rang them...spoke to Nigel....He said its like cash back just one off...so I told him I think about it and put the phone down.

Did more digging and the reviews are awful...on s21 website or something also ppl with pac code taking ages to transfer...so I will give this a miss and go with id mobile only 250 minutes with 2gb for £7.50 don't need the minutes but 2gb with 4G is great.

Can anyone confirm if you get charged for voicemail? Surely this is wrong,it should come from your minutes.

Also aren't free phone numbers free to call or do you get charged?

Finally how good is the signal and customer service?

Thing putting me off is potential hidden charges and porting issues.

Voicemail comes out of your minutes. ie no charge

I was on a £5 p/m deal but emailed customer services to see if I could be moved onto this. Although I technically shouldn't have had it, they replied within a few hours to let me have it "as it was Christmas". Superb customer service, as I've experienced before in the short time I've been with them.

+1

Finally ordered a sim for my daughter. She's with the Post Office at the moment but after reading peoples problems with transferring the number we've decided not to bother.

when do you need to send in the PAK code if you want to port num, can it be done after you have signed up??

my number i was porting was disconnected for nearly 3 weeks but finally changed over yesterday. in week 2 i was moaning nearly every day as i needed my number working so eventually had a chap phone and said a different department was onto it and i would be offered some compo after its sorted. we shall see.

moved a payg number from Three onto Life

they (Life) told me date would be 30th December and sure enough number moved over today (30th)

cant fault it at all :smiley:

Annoyingly, still not taking my Mastercard. I don't want to use my debit card.

got the sim card today. impressive. only ordered yesterday!

Will this deal be £6 for good or will they increase the price.

Not sure tbh...

"All voice calls are subject to a minimum charge of one minute and then rounded to the nearest minute"

Which doesn't really help.

https://lifemobile.co.uk/PDF/Directory_Enquiries-NGN-Premium_Charges_v2.0_29062015.pdf

It seems the voicemail uses your inclusive minutes so will be perfect for me.

Sim dispatched yesterday, came today. Can't use it yet though as they say its not activated until 48 hours after you get the dispatched email so will have to wait until tomorrow to set it up. Not yet had an email from them about setting up an online account either, maybe that happens when the sim is activated after 48 hours.

Does anyone know when this offer ends? I still have £5 left to use on my pay and go phone.

Well after getting my sim through and it activating today I'm a convert. 3G speeds are actually better than GiffGaff's 4G speeds (GG D: 1.8, U:12.71, Life: D: 9.43, U: 2.12), clearly the uplink on GG is fine, it's not a signal issue, so 5x the download speed for half the price and better battery life as 4G can be switched off. I'm still checking real life coverage, but for £6 it's hard to fault.

Been with them for 3 months. Used voicemail all the while. Never had any additional charges on the bill so voicemail must come out of your minutes.

Well its been over 48 hours since the dispatch email, just tried the sim....not activated :neutral_face:

So, I just rang them, there is a message saying good morning and that they are in a meeting and to call back at 11:20 (presumably am) but its now just after 6:30PM, not impressed.

Oh yeah, not had an email either containing info for setting up an online account either.

My sim activated after a few minutes in my phone as per the letter - 48hrs from the date on the letter after 12:00. It's not instant - leave it in and switched on for a few mins and see what happens.

I ordered mine this Tuesday. It came on Wednesday. I've had no email either containing info for setting up an online account, and just tested sim again, which is still dead. Not very happy.

My Virgin sim is still going strong. No porting has occurred, which they told me would happen yesterday. Good job.

Ordered this just now. Due to the time of year I'm expecting a delay.

I ordered yesterday but I'm not expecting dispatch until Monday.

Still not activated. This is a joke. Thinking of cancelling when/if I get to speak to someone tomorrow.

APN settings, not that they're much use at the moment.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?p=69819873

For heaven's sake guys, give them a chance. It's still the festive period, after all, and the SIM's only going to cost 6 quid a month.

Even if you do get ripped off out of a few days of the contract it's hardly going to bankrupt you. It's six quid a month! If it were a higher value contract I'd agree with your frustration!

'there is a message saying good morning and that they are in a meeting and to call back at 11:20 (presumably am) '

I got this message last week. Due to the time of the day I rang (pm) I thought it meant 11.20 pm. I reckon that there is no meeting. It's a message they put on when nobody is going to answer the phone.

so all the review are right, about this third party company.....search life mobile in Google and it's 2nd one down s21 it's called. Mostly slating the company...its a 1 man company....and the man is on holiday so you have to wait until he wakes up ....sorry gets out the meeting....do your self a favour go with someone who will answer your phone.

Been told it should be activated on Monday. We shall see.

I was also told sims are activated 48 working hours after the dispatch email is sent, not just 48 hours as per the letter. Oh yes, and yesterday they were open Sunday hours, clearly they aren't a major player in the mobile network operator game or they'd be open 24/7.

Well I'm pretty impressed so far. Good email and telephone support. Number ported without any issue. Good value and no issues from me.

Some of you want Life's prices but expect EE infrastructure/support/manpower!!

We had a bit of an issue over getting number ported for stepdaughter from 3 PAYG but I was very happy with the Customer Service team who genuinely appeared to want to help (and to be fair to them the porting issue isn't something they can resolve themselves but they did keep pushing with the Ops team). I found calls were answered promptly (unlike most other providers!) and they did call back if they said they were going to. For £6 a month (and the ability to cap excess) I think it's a pretty good service. If they get 4g and price stays same or similar then I will seriously consider switching my own phone from my £5.50 a month Voda sim when the 12 months are up (so as to avoid need to do cash back, although to be honest that is hardly a hassle, and for the 30 day contract)

Not 24 hours. It came on Thursday, been told it 'will' be activated on Monday.

Today in an email from them I've now been told its 5 working days from the day the sim was bought, so that's 3 different things I've been told now (including what the letter says).

I just want service, Poundland give better service and don't contradict themselves!

Considering EE do actually own Life Mobile.....

been using this for 3 days now and very happy. gonna stick with this.

wow, I am going to get this, leaving gg. I forgot the procedure though, still have some allowance on giffgaff, should i order the sim and not use it until my allowance runs out on old sim and then request porting?

Yes that's right. Use up as much as you can on your GiffGaff allowance, then give LIFE your PAC. Remember to allow 48 hours for the port to go through. As we're now out of the holiday period it should go through smoothly. Ensure you allow yourself a small allowance left on your GG SIM so that it can tide you over until the port goes through.

Its finally working, sort of. There's no APN info though so I can't use data so that's something else to sort out now :neutral_face:

Data working now after manually entering the apn settings.

Hi, is there a link anywhere to the apn settings? Thanks.

Name - Life Internet
APN - tslpaymnet
MMSC - http://mms/
MMS Proxy - 193.35.133.194
MMS Port - 8080
Authentication type - PAP
APN type - If given a choice, select internet+mms, if the keyboard appears enter *

I'd posted a link on page 7 :smile:

Dunno what settings they are but the settings I got from the link I provided on page 7 are the correct one's which I confirmed over the phone this morning with Life Mobile.

Name - EE Internet
APN - everywhere
Username - eesecure
Password –secure
MMSC - http://mms/
MMS Proxy - 149.254.201.135
MMS Port - 8080
Authentication type – PAP
APN type - If given a choice, select internet+mms, if the keyboard appears enter *

Thanks all for your help.

leaving gg for this. hehe. amazing.

gg prices has been static when the others are getting cheaper. :smiley:

purchased this before it was put on ukHDs, it's been nearly a week with no text service, cannot receive calls, cannot phone partner on their new SIM. daughter purchased herself the SIM same day and they haven't even ported her number. was trying to get away from a crap service TT, feel like I've gone backwards. if number isn't ported by tomorrow gonna be charged by TT another month. :disappointed:

purchased this before it was put on ukHDs, it's been nearly a week with no text service, cannot receive calls, cannot phone partner on their new SIM. daughter purchased herself the SIM same day and they haven't even ported her number. was trying to get away from a crap service TT, feel like I've gone backwards. if number isn't ported by tomorrow gonna be charged by TT another month. :disappointed:

Ordered on Sunday still not received it....and they charge you when u finish signing up......what a rip off.

I've just received my dispatch email. It has a bit attached which I have to return to them for the direct debit (and I have to pay postage), this has never happened with previous direct debits I have set up over the internet.

I think they must have a back log as mine was ordered on Thursday and just got dispatched this evening.

Had that u don't need to send that back to them they already got your permission when u signed for it.....unless am wrong someone can probably can clarify.

Received mine today; put into dual sim phone and it's showing a signal. According to the email you have to wait for 2 days after dispatch email. All seems on track so far.

Received mine this morning, letter says they will email me login information, I haven't received that yet.

Ah my bad, I simply copied and pasted the APN settings from the Geek Squad (CPW) website. Presumably these are the settings that were used prior to LIFE Mobile's previous owner, Phones4U, going under. As they are now owned and run by EE it's understandable that they now use the same APN settings as the 'real' EE.

My sim finally ported. Seems OK. Anyone know how to switch off voicemail? Dialling #004# works on most sims, but not Life apparently.

Why you want to switch answer phone off....I thought it comes out of your allowance.

I always switch it off. People can text me if me want to leave a message, or ring on my land-line which has got an answer machine.

This tariff for a month or Will they increase next month to standard 7.95 ?
Can somebody confirm please..

Will this be £6 for good or will the price increase?

Mine's up and running, absolutely NO problem. Rang them today, the answer was almost immediate.
Fingers crossed.

Ordered sim late at night 05/01/2016, sim arrived AM in the post on the 07/01/2016, e-mailed them my PAC code & they e-mailed me back to say thanks & the porting of my number would be after 12 noon on Friday 08/01/2016. All done & dusted by 13:05 PM on Friday 08/01/2016. I for one am a very impressed person to say least so far with the service from this company, long may it continue, fingers crossed! Thank you very very much to the O P ! ; / )

I emailed them to see if they would reduce the 5£ cap to £1 but I got no reply, will give them until won day then I guess I'm going to have to ring them. Hate talking to strangers on the phone.

I don't have much experience with contracts, but I've had this one a few months and it's been fairly decent (given the price).

I phoned customer service to get the cap to £1 and to port my number. staff were friendly and got everything sorted without issue.

As for the phone service. it's been decent, not had much cause to complain. The Internet is often at H+ round my local area, but obviously depends where you live. few minor niggles that aren't worth mentioning, but all in all, I'd give this 8.5/10.