I am genuinely mystified with comments like these and others when talking about customer services for any network.
Personally once my phone has been moved onto a contract the next time I usually speak to someone is usually when I need my PAC code which can be a year or two later.

Do people actually call mobile operators that often with a problem?

Sure if you want to pay for two contracts till June.

TCB £47.50

just signed up for life mobile with only 3gb of 3g data . which network to talk mobile use and is it 4g data

nice deal , uses Vodafone network and also possible £35 quidco for sim only contract

12mth Contract can't see how long the double data last for.
Afaik Vodafone own Talk mobile.

just had a on line chat 4g service starting from talk mobile sometime this year very vague

and confirm what blaster just said, I was also told sometime this year but they couldn't give the exact date.

double data offer is for the 12 month period

still a very hot deal and like others above say its now owned by Vodafone

had this for a few months, maximum speed you'll get is around 8mbps

This is a great deal and I may use this to bait retentions at Virgin as Talk Mobile has some really bad reviews for customer service.

Does this mean if I get a Vodafone SU6 then I don't need to unlock it?

Great price. Does anyone know if you can cap contract as I cant find the it anywhere on the website.

TCB £47.50

My contract with talktalk mobile ends in June, do you think I can get this deal now?

Cheers, I've added that too :smiley:

The funny thing about talk mobile is i took out a contract with them about 6yrs ago and only had it a day because i couldn't get a signal.
at the time they said they couldn't cancel it but i had a good read up before i went back and there terms and conditions said that i had the right to cancel but they still wouldn't have it even in black and white writing so i said get the manager.
In the end the manager rang TM and they said it was right but in a few weeks they would be changing it.
The moral of the story is that after all that time they are still on my credit file which by all that time they shouldn't be
i never missed any payments because it was cancelled and i still pay all my bills on time.

Yeah but have a look on your credit file and see if it goes on there.
To be honest its not stopped me from getting anything its just i thought after all these years it would have been gone or not even mentioned on there because never did anything wrong to be put on there.

To be fair ive had speeds of double digits on T.M for a few years now and sometimes get reception in other networks blackspots areas. Im waiting for the unlimited data return on this though.

cracker :sunglasses:

Looks like Quidco have now matched TCB £47.50

​I have a Vodafone locked s5. Talkmobile working flawlessly. Hope that helps.

On another note, very good customer service. Even on the weekends!

Sorry, but how can I get this for 47.50?

Potential likely downside... It's likely their automated voice prompt re 'this month's allowance remaining' system will give you the same half-complete info it's giving with my TalkMobile plan as it appears the offer is a DOUBLE data allowance for a fixed period ie contract is likely going to be for 2GB/m with 2GB/m bonus for first 12 months.

If so then their automated announcements would ONLY tell you about your remaining 2GB "Inclusive data" and NOT the 2GB "data Free of charge", for that you'd have to visit their website & log in and NOT via the synthesised voice announcements.

ie the Usage: "Check for free from your Talkmobile phone by dialling 5888 and choosing option 2 then option 1 followed by option 1"

PS: While checking that I heard my out of allowance charge cap is £50 not £10 mentioned by a poster earlier and their help says:
"Unfortunately it’s not currently possible to cap your data but we’re working on it. Once you've used up your monthly allowance, we set a limit of £50 to reduce the risk of fraudulent activity on your account if your phone gets lost or stolen. "

PPS
I'm only using them as saw a HUKD deal in 2014with a 100% cashback of the monthly contract fee from their sister company e2Save - which has paid out as promised :smiley:

I signed up to one of their sim deals 9 days ago , i was sent an email saying the sim card would be posted first class and arrive 3-4 days later.... I'm still waiting for it to arrive. I rang this evening to be told they are having issues with standard and micro sim cards at the moment and hence haven't dispatched any. Pitty they haven't let me know !!
I'm now waiting for a nano sim to arrive and I will have to go out and get a sim adaptor , however they are adding £5 credit to my account to pay for it.

I've moved on from talktalk after having nightmares trying to close my contract with them , this is still with ofcom .Lessons learnt maybe in future I need to put my hands deep in my pocket and go direct to one of the major network providers for some "service".

2x sim cards from them last week. Neither of them worked, so I cancelled on the 13th day.

You signed up to a contract sim, so even if you cancel immediately it will show as settled (closed). As long as there are no late payment markers etc, its perfectly fine.

It will drop off after 6 years like all credit accounts.

Sorry, but how can I get this for 47.50?

generally vodafone has network coverage indoors. so i would expect talk talk to have too.

Thanks, I've updated the cashback :smiley:

Shame, its with vodafoney. No service where I live.

I've gone back to talkmobile as couldn't get hullomail working with virgin and the post office.

Good deal but ordered the Life Mobile sim for my mum as she's been on Orange/EE for years and the signal round here is excellent.

Pressed hot by mistake. Currently trying to get my money back from them as they took money without my consent after leaving them a few months ago. Worst customer service I've ever come across. No way of getting English people to help, all script readers that seem to be robots. And relax.

This isn't TalkTalk.....this is a different company.

I've deleted my comment. As the logo were very similar I tough... anyway, sorry about that.

So how do people find virtual networks that piggy back off of Vodafone, from a data perspective?
I was with Sainsburys Mobile before they shut up shop in January and they used Vodafone's network.
I live in Northamptonshire and no where in any towns or even in Northampton or Milton Keynes. Could I ever get decent data speeds. It was nearly always GPRS speed (2G) and on the rare occasions it was 3G the speed was never more that 300kbps.
I bought a SIM with 1GB of data a month, and with awful data coverage never managed to use more than about 75MB of data in a month.
Put in perspective I use 8GB of data with Three a month and get 3G speeds of 13-16MBPS.
Every time I called Sainsburys mobile they confirmed the settings on my phone was correct and the network was running well.
Will never use a virtual network on Vodafone again.

I set mine to £11 by talking to them via livechat on their website. This was the lowest it could be set to.

Do you still have to be a talktalk customer to join their mobile network?

Cheers

Does anyone know if you can use the data for tethering with this company please?

Anybody know if you can port a number from Vodafone to Talk as my Vodafone cheap deal is coming to an end soon and as I currently get a good signal I would be happy to stay on a Vodafone related provider. I know there are some good Sim only cash back Voda deals around (such as net £5.50 after doing the submit bills routine) but this would save having to port number across to say a Three PAYG for a bit and then getting new Voda sim and having to port back.

​Of all instances i have had to contact talktalk CS ive had a good experience. I think their based in south africa too.

Odd. I'm with TalkMobile and the few customer service issues I've had were along the same lines as the previous poster - very clearly dealt with via an offshore centre with robotic scripts, which in one way is good (in that if you have a common problem that can just feed through a flow chart it will eventually get resolved because they just follow their processes), but anything out of the ordinary becomes an issue to resolve (although admittedly that does feed back to the UK).

Cheap and cheerful. I find the network calls and data service ranks below the best but well above GiffGaff in terms of data speeds even without 4G (not that comparisons with GiffGaff on data speeds mean much - pretty much everyone beats them!)

I once had a 2 year contract with TM, cracking, only reason I dropped them was to get an excellent deal on the S4 when they were new from someone else. That deal's just about up now and I wouldn't have any hesitation with going back with TM when it is tbh

Getting through to someone who knows what they're talking about was hard at Vodafone can only imagine it'll be worse here.

I think you need to take the offer up before 17th April 16 in order to get 4gb data for 12 month contract.

ive just asked a representative on chat and it is for the duration of the contract if joining by 17th april

£51.45 tcb - hot many thanks

if you get the £51 cash back from topcashback then you get 12 months contract for £5.75 a month that's a lots on minutes data and text for that money, but even if you don't get cash back still cheapest deal ive seen for £10 a month.

been on live chat and they have said it can be capped to £10 so no extra charges !

cheers guys and gals, ive taken the plunge yo!

anyone else's quidco tracked at £1?

Is this deal dead now - can only see 2Gb at the moment...

Thanks! Wasn't showing 2Gb on Topcashback.

Can someone please explain how this part of the deal works?

"Possible £51.45 using TCB/£47.50 using Quidco"

What is TCB and Quidco and how do I use them to save money on this deal?

Probably a basic question I know but I don't frequent this website very often. Thanks in advance.

No matter how hot the deal is never go for Vodafone.

does anyone know if this deal would expire any sooner or you can buy the sim-only with this offer until 17th April?

Also, when should you request porting your number? while ordering or can port after order?

Sim arrived so phoned to activate. After speaking to four people I was told that its not been setup correctly meaning i now have to wait for the techincal team to return to work on monday before theu can even look at it. Asked to speak to a manager as he wasnt making much sense. None were available. I asked to cancel my order. Apparently that couldnt be done either. Definatly not a good start!

Anyone else experiencing strange cashback tracking? TCB reporting only £1.05 upon purchase.

active link:

http://talkmobile.co.uk/shop/sim-only/

just porting my number over the chat service and adding a cap to my account

Hi, Can somebody please confirm if they can make conference call?

Would be £5.91/mo for 4 GB for me. Don't need that much data but it's seemingly still cheaper than anything else out there now.

Sounds like people are having cashback tracking issues though...

mine has now been tracked via a claim. quidco themselves looked into it and put it right... go for it.

Anyone else had problems with their SIM card from them - I thought it was just my bad luck, but reading this it appears there are problems with them?!

Comment Vodafone!

I used to be a Talk Mobile customer and they are sly. They charged me £250 of data usage and clearly didn't notify me that I went over. It didn't happen once. It happened twice. I was on a 2gb for £5 per month plan. good price but there's always a trap behind something that sounds too good to be true.

Seems like a great deal. Can I just ask whether they will cap monthly spending so you can't over use the data ?

Just to balance that, I'm not sure what applied at that time (probably no limit), but now there is a £50 out of allowance default limit. Unless you are roaming or doing something really silly, at 2p/MB I doubt whether many people would be running up £250 bills by accident now with Talkmobile, even if the data reporting lag meant a few days usage in excess of that £50 limit.

TalkMobile. Absolutely shockingly bad customer service. I was attracted by a deal at Xmas and have regretted it ever since. Sign up to TalkMobile at your peril. Cheap deals are not everything. I realise that some here may well disagree and have experienced good service from TM, I envy you if you are one of the few. Just google TM and look at the poor reviews.

Is this 4G data or 3G?

can you tether on talkmobile ? , i have a life sim and i can use all my data tethered which is handy.
I also got the vodafone red 20gb with unlimited mins and texts for £18 a month starting shortly

just seen you can tether.

I cant understand why this deal is very hot...it has been around for ages and posted here many times. I bought it for my son just before christmas and got £48 TCB

Rubbish company to deal with.

Yes, ​my contract is capped to additional £5 above monthly fee.

No issues . Tracked straight away I think after a week they changed from £1 to £47.50.

Before you sign up....take a quick look at their reviews...APPAULING is an understatement and another tip, don't rely on their chat service, they'll promise you the world. oh they also have a reputation for price hikes mid term.

https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.talkmobile.co.uk

Forgive my naivety but would the sim allow wifi calling? I know vodafone have this facility however I'm not sure if talk mobile would. Thanks kindly.

I've got a plan from another provider (three) that has unlimited tethering. I was just on the phone to them now and they told me I will keep unlimited tethering if I don't upgrade. I'm paying £27 per month. Do you think there is a better deal? I haven't upgraded for a few years now.

On the price hikes mid-term, the T&Cs say that is limited to RPI on out of plan charges.

If you were lucky enough for them to foolishly hike the tariff mid-term, happy days, you'd be able to just get your PAC number and run (so highly unlikely to happen - they're unlikely to do something that stupid) - T&C 8.3

If the TCB or Quidco deals for Cashbacks are not working, go via USwitch and get a £30 gift voucher!

You can choose, Amazon, House of Erasure, John Lewis or M&S.

http://www.uswitch.com/mobiles/compare/sim_only_deals/

Rather pay £5 more a month on giff gaff and u get 4g

Excellent. Used this to get a retention deal from Vodafone. Happy days.

I can only speak as I find but I've been with them since 2012 and haven't had any issues. I've not experienced any price hikes. The times I have contacted them via online Chat I've keep a copy of the transcript 'just in case' as I do as a matter of course for any supplier. They were happy to move me onto this tariff saving me £2.50 a month and an increased allowance. The Trustpilot reviews do make grim reading though :confused:

I got this exact deal at christmas and Quidco has finally tracked at the correct price of £45 which means that it will end up costing me £6.25 each month. Result.

Why has this been expired?

Thanks OP just got my £49.87 from TopCashBack into my bank account this morning so very happy, cheers