I just moved to Life a week ago and they are starting to send 4G sims to people that are already members so it's only a matter of time, I should receive mine in about 2 months because I just registered (they send the sims in the order people registered)

So far I had no issues with them(but I have nothing to compare them with, I've been on vectone till now - the worst network ever!), very good customer support, based in the UK; unlike vectone, the worst network ever

Did I mention Vectone is the absolute worst network ever?

Has it been a month already? :man:

Etc.

My wives and girlfriends contract are coming up at the same time, good saving!

Not actually legal in the UK to have "wives". Twitchy bum time when the door knocks

My iPhone is locked to EE will this SIM work with it or does it need to be a proper EE SIM?

These keep popping up. I can just never decide from the comments if it's worth the "hassle" of switching over to these lesser known networks. Always mixed reviews. Much like the major networks though too I guess.

interesting deal . wife's iPhone deal with ee coming to an end ( as will a lot of hot UK,ERS who took up the same deal )

good find op, heat added

Fayraz I have just received my sim from Life and it works fine in a phone I had locked to orange so I would imagine you would be ok

Has it been a month already? :man:

Etc.

:smirk::wink:

looking for deal at mo but ee has such poor reception everywhere i use it im looking to bail. good deal if reception ok where you are.

Only 3G not 4G if that matters for people? ID mobile are similar prices but they are 4G.

Nice, any idea what network they use? and is it 4g?

Giffgaff better take note of all this new competition, they're no longer the best deal in town.

They also do 1500 mins, unlimited texts and 1GB of data for £6/month via the same link. I switched to this tariff on Life a month ago and I have been very happy with both the network performance and the customer services.

Are these any good

My wives and girlfriends contract are coming up at the same time, good saving!

I'm tempted to jump ship from giffgaff after being with them for the last 3 years and give this a go.

Good timing for me

I've been on this a few months now after Three did the bait'n'switch on tethering. This mob have been pretty good, the connection consistency and speed seems ok even if it's only 3G; I'm using it in a Samsung tablet for mobile data and navigation around London. I've never had the problems I had with Three (at least so far). Tethering works reliably too.

Have been on this tariff for a month now after switching over from O2. The service has been good and have not had any issues.

Is it the same price for 4G then?

Anyone know if I can have a separate shipping address to the billing address as where I live mail goes missing all the time?

I also did this.

3G on Life is between 5-12Mbps. 3G/4G from GiffGaff was at best 4Mbps, and usually 0.5-2Mbps.

YMMV tho.

surely if 4g comes the prices might be on the increase, right?

This is the unknown right now. Rumours have said those already with Life will see prices stay the same, but that could be BS. Surprised Life doesn't just come out and say what they're doing, especially with TPO moving away from EE to Three, so there could be some customers looking to switch to a EE MVNO.

Dude, you made my day loooooool

BT & Life are both using EE so is there a better option of the two? Price works out the same for me as BT have £5 off a month for customers at the minute. Just curious what you think or is just a case of personal preference?

**Edit - BT doesn't allow tethering whereas Life does. So that could help me decide.

I moved over last month from Virgin Mobile - despite being on the same network (EE) I seem to get a better signal and faster downloads. Customer services great - ported number with ease. Only thing I miss is the app to see usage - the website log in is a little dated and limited. But for £10 for 3000 mins and 3gb is such a bargain

Nice. An extra 1gb data on top of tpo for the same price. Tempted

Can you elaborate as to why vectone was so bad?
As I was looking to get their sim only deal which is £10 a month and unlimited mins/texts and 5GB data?

Hi I just ordered but it never gave me the option to port my number . any ideas how I can do this? many thanks

Are 0800 numbers free on this sim?

I find vectone mobile terrible signal service, giffgaff using o2 network is better but still has silent phases I may change to LIFE mobile just to check how the signal is as giffgaff only has email and web support no live customer service agent available.

New rules dictate that 0800 calls must be free from any network

Right just bit the bullet and ordered a sim. Worth the risk for a £10 a month rolling contract I suppose.

I'm on this £10 deal for about 2 months now. Decided to take this over the ID mobile deal as I've heard that their customer service is poor.

The reception and customer service from life has been great so far.

where does it say that it's 3g only? it says 4g on the uswitch page?

Wish they did cheap abroad bolt on, shame

Great price this

Following

Got this deal through uswitch for my dad and sister, transferred dads number from tmobile and it got transferred over with 48 hours no problem. Definitely recommended!

Would this work with an ee boost box as that really is important to me as can't get a signal with any network.

Too bad this is on Life not EE, would love to get a deal like this but on EE 4G.

I've had this deal from T Mobile for ages on a retention deal, I'd jump straight away if it was 4g but the best EE can do for me to keep my plan on 4g is £15.99.. head added as it's great value and not a retention.

Been with Life for 3 months, decent speed - no 4g here anyway - better reception than 3 in the South East and Nottinghamshire and The two times I have rang customer services the call was answered by a UK call centre within a few minutes and very helpful. I started off on the £6 tarif but 1gb wasn't enough. The text me several days before they take payment which is great and I really appreciate the £1 cap. The only complaint is that they don't have a app to check balance. Hope this helps.

I rang Virgin mobile to cancel my contract, they gave me 1000 free call, texts ,and 2Gb on rolling contract at £6.00 a month. :smile:

​sorry, you're right, was looking at the ID Simon on that page

BRILLIANT.

To be fair, the OP used a bad link. Should have used this one.

Or at least this one: http://www.uswitch.com/mobiles/networks/life-mobile/sim_only_deals/

I'm currently on an Unlimited calls and texts and 2GB data package for £15.98 a month on EE which expires on 20 March 2016. I rang them today to see if they could offer me a better deal quoting the Life Mobile offer and the best they could offer was £12.99 a month for 1000 mins and 2GB data. The most I wanted to pay was £10 per month so looking at switching to the Life Mobile network.

The woman on the phone at EE told me I could not port my number over to Life from EE as it was on the same network and the code issued is for porting out to a different network and if I used it to port within the same network it would not work. Is this true? Has anyone moved from EE to Life?

I have tried editing it but it just keeps reverting to the original one.

Are you able to tether with this if so i am going for the 3GB tariff.?

I get unlimited texts and minutes, 3gb data, 2months free United data with tethering, and 2 months free so I only pay for the following 10 months... All for £10.20 a month with Vodafone

been with life for 3 months. highly recommended

Just moved the other half onto this and EE comes up on her phone as the network.

Be slightly aware, we paid the first £10 online 2 months ago when registering and for several reasons didn't get around to putting this new Life sim into the phone straight away. We (I) didn't read the deal print and I assumed (you shouldn't apparently!! ;0) ) that it would have to be activated, but it works straight away and so got charged for first month, and then a second via DD whilst not actually having used it / or even putting the sim in the phone. Our fault as didn't read / forgot the small print, but worth noting.

The other half called Life and they refused to give any credit back, even as a gesture of goodwill which I think is a bit unkind, but to the letter or their terms.

Good deal though and heat added, plus there's a £6, 1500 min and 1GB of data through uswitch too.

I might be being a bit thick here but when I go to the offer it states 'Standard Sim' Does that mean it can't be used in an iPhone 5 which uses a nano Sim ?

Yes, tethering is allowed on any of Life Mobile's contracts apparently.
I've had the £6/pm SIM for just under a month and no problems at all. Porting my number was hassle-free and customer service were very friendly and helpful.

Will they send out a nano sim on this deal ?

Can you tether with the data allowance?

Signed up thanks!

Also signed up to this around a week ago

It's quite risk free compared to signing up to a 12/24 month contract. You sign up, if it's terrible you leave after a month.

My own experience with signing up for them a week or so ago. I got everything in the post in reasonable time, phone call to CS was answered quickly and by UK call center (admittedly the sound quality was crap, as could hear the operators colleague better than him). They could explain the initial set up process a bit better, but other than that it's been relatively painless, and that includes porting my number over to them.

Amazing eh?

Just a word of warning if anyone wishes to keep their number switching from the EE network. Mine took FOURTEEN days to properly switch, albeit it was over Xmas but I was promised it would happen before Xmas day. Rang up and they said there was a problem with their engineers, promised again that i would be up and running on the 30th or 31st at the latest. Still no go, lost Ali service over the New Year so no txts from or to family and friends. Couldn't get hold if anyone on the 2nd but running on the 4th.

Gave PAC code on 21st Dec, up and running 4th Jan.

Other than that, no problems.

Was about to order this when noticed it costs 35p/min to retrieve voicemail :disappointed:

3G download speed was significantly faster than GiffGaff's 4G for me, up-link was another story but going to 3G from 4G hasn't been the problem I had anticipated. My number port was also handled quickly and after I rated them average in terms of recommending them to a friend, they called me and asked for more info, explained 4g/app was coming and offered to send me a 4G sim when it launches.

Been with Life for about 6 months and fairly happy with them. Few pointers:

1) Balance checking: Last I looked, and had this confirmed by customer services, there is no way to check your balance other than logging onto their website or asking a CS rep! Even when you do log on, the balance online is normally 24 hours out of date. I was promised that an android app was in the works.

2) Life mobile is owned by EE who bought them from phones4. Not sure why this matters but people do seem to get hung up about the provenance of MVNOs.

3) I can't for the life of me get them to remove the adult content filter from my account. I have asked 3 times and still can't browse certain sites. It's probably good for me.

4) Porting took an age. My other half's went through as expected in a couple of days but mine took multiple phone calls.

not sure Splashmo as it doesn't say,can anyone with Life clarify that the 35p/min is for voicemail retrieval that is outside your allowance only?

Just wondering if this will work with a blackberry

Voicemail retrievel is included in your minutes. If you run out of minutes then it's 35p per minute

Yes it was a retention deal indeed and i took it 2 months before the end of my contract as an upgrade, so I ended up not paying the last £41 x2 and even have them two months free of charge plus whatever extras I mentioned, so I could not fault it at all!

Not according to the EE community boards, they work fine with MVNOs: https://community.ee.co.uk/t5/EE-Mobile-Network/signal-box/td-p/98612

Doesn't help with this deal but I'm also in an area that was only served by O2. However, a recent visitor on Vodafone had good signal and it appears O2 and Vodafone are sharing masts/antennae in some locations now (for 2G and 3G at least...). Might give you a few options if you wanted to take the punt with Vodafone (I just ordered a free payg sim to double check and the signal is identical on O2 and Vodafone at home and work now)

thank you for the info :wink:

Whats the nwtwork coverage like. Also do you have to be credit checked to sign up for a contract

Bookmark

Checked your link and samskip states that when you cancel the EE account the box will stop working but that there are unconfirmed reports of them continuing to work. So it seems try it and see.

Can't wait for 2017 to come so we can buy our phone deals in the UK and use them all over Europe, unless of course stupidity rules and people vote to come out of EU and I have to return to my motherland. Prices are soooooo expensive in Spain.

Is Vectone any good?

I think FiF_T had a good experience with them. Or at least that's the impression I got.

Signed up - got this for the mother in law. 3000 minutes is a good deal and boy she can talk. Hassle free CS and just waiting to get the PAC from 3 now.

​Awesome thanks. TBH we just need a small VNMO with WiFi calling and wed all be jumping over...

44 heat last month...1044 heat so far today.

Classic HUKD.

I pay £6.99 for 1200 min ultd txt 3gb data 3g on t mobile

can someone help please I've set up the dd OK but when it asks for the other bank details to confirm there's no option for visa debit card so it won't accept my Barclay's account

Thankyou - well that,s me sold - i have a Q5 as well

​nope tried that :disappointed:

Try giving them a call and placing it over the phone?

​might do thanks

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/uswitch-exclusive-10-00-per-month-3000-minutes-unlimited-texts-3gb-data-2373789 i alread posted this

I have been using giffgaff for 2 years but this is a crazy deal.Time to switch!:disappointed:

Yup, and you only got 44 degrees :man:

Also, deals can be reposted after a month.

anyone received a 4g sim yet?

Thanks for the tip.
In the past I have been warned off Voda locally so didn't bother trying but in view of your comment it might be worth a punt so I'll try to get hold of a free PAYG sim and give it a go.

Cheers. My concern is more to do with them being rubbish in terms of actual network performance, or going bust or whatever, and spoiling the good thing I have with T Mobile currently which obviously I won't be able to go back to.

How long is this deal going on for? Need to wait till Wednesday really is that is when I have to give notice on my current EE sim only 12 month deal and I kind of want to see if they will give me a deal to stay with them.

Life are owned by EE, so the chances of going bust are unlikely. Also, aren't T-Mobile EE anyway? So should perform exactly the same.


It's been running for a few months now, so don't see it ending anytime soon. The roll out of 4G might cause some price changes, but again, that doesn't look like it'll be happening imminently.

I switched to this deal about two weeks ago. So far so good no problems whatsoever. Sim arrived in a couple of days. Put in my phone and away you go. Remember you do not get 4G but you can tether which other cheap sims do not do.


If you go through uswitch you can get two excellent sim only deals.
3000 mins/unlimited texts/3GB data for £10
1500 mins/unlimited texts/ 1GB data for £6
These deals are on a 1 month rolling contract with Life mobile which is run by ee so use their network.
You can port your number over to them.
Also you can set a spending cap from as little as £1.[/quote]

Thanks OP - just ordered this, as my O2 contract runs out next week. O2 have told me they have unlocked my phone and I just need to put in the new non O2 SIM into the phone and then connect to itunes and follow the instructions. Hope this works and the number porting - 02 texted me my PAC earlier this evening.
Hard to get excited about mobile stuff (but did enjoy negotiating £336 off my virgin LL and BB yearly cost last week!) but looking forward to learning about "tethering" - does this mean I'll need a dongle to use the data allowance on my laptop?

I'm already with life mobile paying 12 quid for 3000 mins/unlimited texts/3GB. Can I still use uswitch to pay 10 quid for the exact same deal?

I have recieved my sim today but can't seem to contact them to port my number over . any ideas

Great deal. :stuck_out_tongue:

Just upgraded from £6 /m . double minutes

Did anyone receive a dispatch e-mail before their SIM arrived?

It has been 2 days since I ordered but I haven't received a dispatch e-mail or the SIM.

what's the speed of 3g?
Because now I'm with Giffgaff and speeds are terrible

The welcome email tends to come a couple of days after you receive the SIM -- this was the case for both of the £6/pm SIMs I ordered recently.
This may be because your SIM gets auto activated 2 or 3 days after they dispatch it, so by the time you receive the welcome email your SIM will be useable straight away.

I was with virgin mobile on unlimited everything for £15 but I never used the data so I've just ordered this sim deal :smiley: Thanks for posting

Anybody know if this deal includes unlimited landline calls as well or is it just mobile-to-mobile calls only? Just curious, as I can't see anything in the small print to confirm either way - either that or I need to buy a new pair of glasses! :smile:

Could someone outline the porting process with LIFE?

I have a PAC but is it automated at the time of ordering or do you have to call them after your line is connected?

Thanks

​London zone, and Giffgaff speed is crap

Cheers mate, greatly appreciated! :smile:

Amazing! Just received a text from EE asking me to come back offering 250 mins and 250 mb for only £9.99; seriously considering it............:wink:

Was just going to go for the £6 deal, but I have just found out that my contact (12 month) was extended without me knowing it when I went in to get my SIM card chopped down for a new phone (didn't need it though as it was pre-scored). I was offered another 500Mb, even though I don't use any data and didn't really want it and it seems that it was done on the sly then......

quick question if anyone knows, as i've just ordered this.

currently on tesco mobile pay monthly rolling one month contract, and i've just got PAC code from them. once the sim arrives and i transfer my number does this end the tesco contract? or is it necessary to contact them?

thanks.

anybody can post APN setting for android? tanks, couldnt find on webpage...

How long do people think this deal will last for? Life website says 11.95. I was about to sign up last night but I have 27 quid left on giffgaff as I topped up when going abroad (in the end didn't need much as found wifi). So I have a couple more months on ultra s l o wwwww Giffgaffffffff left :disappointed: I also notice Life want 10 quid up front so can't just order a sim ready to test? Don't like that.... James

You have to go through Uswitch to get the deal. If you go through the Life Mobile website directly you'll see their standard prices.

​Thanks Preecy. Question more how long will uswitch have this deal as not sure when to wit giffgaff given I have credit ... Thanks ! James

​yes

​the network (calls+data) stop working for a few minutes/ hours every other day. People try to call but they get a message saying you are can't be reached althought you have full signal and are sitting right next to the caller. The worst was once I had no signal for 6 hours while at work. Customer service is completely useless, they will tell you to do useless actions like turning your phone on and off to get decent download speeds.
They didn't give me the bonus for moving to their network(the first sim they sent me was broken) so I called to tell them I am entitled to the bonus, they said a manager would call me, I followed up on the matter with about 7 calls during 3 months....no call from manager, no bonus)

received my sim on friday but it does not work in my iPhone phoned them up and been told it can take up to 48hours to connect anybody else had any similar issues. I get signal bars but no 3g symbol and cannot make any calls surely it should just work right?

I got my sim got my number changed over(still waiting for text/email to say so but it is) but the problem I have is mobile data.I can't connect outside even though it's showing life as the sim inserted,has 3g and E at the top etc.any ideas how to connect on a umi iron,thanks

All smooth changeover for me - I put the new SIM in this morning, instant confirmation of service, and the 3G seems as fast if not better than the 3G/4G I was getting from o2.

Rang up the free 500 number and first impressions great - started porting my number, made my spending cap £1 and she even asked her supervisor about "tethering" for me, which I'd only heard about on this thread before.

All in all a great first impression so I hope it continues - was actually really fed up with being forced onto Live chat by o2, a massive company who always seems to have a waiting time to actually speak to you of "30 minutes" . Another success through HUKD, pleased to say

Goodbye virgin mobile! They would not other me any good deal and I had enough, ordered 4 life mobile Sims for family, hope it is as good as the comments here.

Thanks for that, i have seen the other deal, but 3gb data will be more than enough for me, I was paying £8 a month so going to £10 wasn't a big deal.

Not a smooth switch for me unfortunately. Ported from GiffGaff to Life. Called on Sat 27th and they said 2 working days, so end of Tuesday. On Tuesday my old sim went dead so i swapped and found i could make calls but not receive them.

CS were good but only said that it was a split port and that it would take up to 5 days to sort. Still waiting. Not great.

One day port for me too from 3. Also the signal is better (5 on an iPhone) despite it being a "patchy" EE area and the 3G I am getting is double the 4G I was getting from 3 (about 19 down, 4 up). Seems excellent

I was lazy and just emailed them my PAC code etc as I wasn't in a rush. Emailed them Friday, and it was ported Monday morning.

Also, just called them to upgrade to the £13.45/6GB deal, and got through in about 5 seconds to UK call centre.

A couple of mins later upgrade made and cap reduced.

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How did you get LIFE to show at the top instead of EE?

I didn't do anything special, it just appeared after a while. I think it did show EE initially.