Found out texting landline gets charged 15p and does not count as part of contract.
Hope this helps someone.

Already paying £6 for 1Gb, phoned customer service and they bumped me up to this one. Thanks OP!

Great deal, heat added. Just got my sim in 24 hours, but be aware that it might not get activated for up to 48 hours, which is annoying as I timed my switch from another provider a bit too close.

I've spoken to customer services, they say it can be sooner, but an automated process (they can't activate it manually), so I'm currently locked out.

On the sim-card wallet info: "We delay activation of your SIM to ensure that it remains secure during postage. It'll be activated shortly after 12.00pm two days after the date of your dispatch confirmation email."

Life use the EE network so it should be fine. I would call them first.

Yes I had to agree to a credit check.
Fantastic deal for my daughter a month, cheaper than top ups;)

Whilst there are people willing to blow £60+ per month to get their hands on the latest phones on what is, basically, an expensive finance agreement, the networks have plenty of wiggle room when it comes to the price of SIM Only plans where there's no £500+ handset cost to cover.

Hi can I use life mobile sim card in my phone which is locked to EE ?thanks

You know you get the most unbelievable stories on Mobile Tariff threads on HUKD's, makes me wonder why they charge at all.

​Trust me you won't get 5gb with virgin. Once you hit 2.5gb they throttle you in snail pace. False advertising and they need stopping for doing it.

Yes. More free time for me. Hence why I upgraded her to 5000 minutes :wink:

We'll they sent me a letter last month to say they're removing my discount so on rang to cancel. I shopped around and found nothing better as she had unlimited minuted and 1gb for £7 a month. So I rang them back and managed to get £5 off their £15 tariff so happy days. Especially when the kids turn on her mobile network and make her go over her 1gb limit the new 5gb should really help.

​You are one luky guy, if she's always on the phone she doesn't get much time to do your head in.

Thanks :smiley:

Call up Life Mobile on 500 from your phone and they will change your tariff for you. Just did it myself.

Outstanding customer service from LIFE, and that's echoed by other members here. It's actually a pleasure to deal with them on the phone as they normally answer quickly and they want to help you. The best service from any network I've ever been on.

Virgin are known for offering good discounts a month in with them. I tried it on with them after a week of signing up with them and I got my then line rental knocked down from £12pm to £8pm. Then after a few months I pushed them again and they dropped it to £6pm. If they had 4G, I would stick with them all day long and for many many days more!

Just over a year. The op said you can take out a rolling contract then call 3 months in and ask if they can give you a discount. It does work :smiley:
This one's for my wife as she talks on the phone alot. They told me she exceeded 3000 mins a month a few times. Lol

EE

No, that'll be for videos sent via MMS. FaceTime (and all other such services) just use normal data, whether that's mobile data or Wi-Fi. :smiley:

I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, however I'll ask anyway. Do you get charged 40p per video message i.e face time when using presumably their data and not wifi https://lifemobile.co.uk/Info/Tariffs
Thanks

A big plus for me is that Life will deal by email. Nice and easy, and no possibility for misunderstandings later.

EE offer 4G, Life don't. Also, EE's plans go further up the usage and price scale than Life's do.

I think Life are meant to be a sort of budget arm of EE. Great if you want a cheap plan, not so great if you want a high usage, 4G plan.

It's a bit like how the Volkswagen Group offer VW, Skoda, Seat and Audi cars all based on the same platform, but with different brand specific bits.

Life, who are a subsidiary of EE, use EE's 3G network.

Their customer services are fantastic, they're based up north somewhere (judging by the accents of the CS staff I've spoken to) and actually help you, rather than sticking religiously to a script and getting utterly confused if your problem/request isn't on said script.

A little fantastic CS anecdote: I rang them yesterday to ask if I could get the extra 500mb of data they're now offering for £5.95 per month and initially they said no, about 5 mins later the guy I spoke to rang me back and said he'd been told they could do it and he sorted it out for me. Very polite, very easy to deal with.

You will get your full allowance, but then you'll be charged over and above that, don't forget to add a usage cap (by calling them up once your sim has arrived) so you don;t get any nasty unexpected bills.

Is there a fair usage or do you actually get the full 3gb of data? I ask this as at the moment I'm with Virgin but moving, reason being as I'm meant to get 5gb of data a month but as soon as I hit 2.5gb I'm throttled. So much so I can't even open emails. My speed goes from 12meg all the way down to 0.30meg!

What I can't understand is why one company will run 2 companies with different charges for what the most of us want, a good signal, good download data and a super customer service at the lowest workable price.
It's the same with BT, their other company Plusnet is far superior to their own branded service so why don't they just sell Plusnet.

​EE, Life Mobile is also owned by EE.

Which network do they work from?? As i'm on O2 and 3 network just now and my signal on both as good but paying much more than this for much less data and call time.

Ooh!! They didn't go gentle on you! :-)

Good find OP. Voted hot!

Which network do they piggy back from?

ie 50558, 12345, 80888, or any other combinations of 5 digits that company's use

Hows the CS side of things with Life mobile?

I'm currently with EE. I mentioned this Virgin offer as well as the LIFE Mobile offer to them.

For £9.99pm EE offered as 12 month sim-only upgrade:
Unlimited Minutes
Unlimited SMS
2GB of Data (Superfast double speed 4G)
Use of allowance in Europe

EE PROS:
1. Unlimited Minutes
2. 4G data (double speed)

EE CONS:
1. 12 month contract
2. Need to pay £3pm extra for 300 08 numbers

VIRGIN PROS:
1. 2500 Minutes to 08 numbers
2. 30 day rolling contract
3. Good further discounts negotiable

VIRGIN CONS:
1. Allowance not usable in Europe
2. No 4G data
3. Not unlimited minutes (but plenty)

My main gripe with EE is that I pay £3pm extra for the 300 08 numbers. They were not willing to do anything to offset that so I took my PAC code.

Any suggestions?

Hot! Great deal, and great customer service.

​ee

Yeah, I'm always ringing 08 numbers.

virgin mobie £10 with 2500 min with 2gb and free 08 numbers

I went for the 3gb unlimited texts and 3000 minutes for £10 few months ago. I wasn't sure with life mobile. But everything works perfect good customer service and Internet is way faster than the crappy speeds I was getting with giffgaff. I would recommend this network to anyone

Sooooo many sim only deals at the moment but I'm not familiar with this company, which network are they using, please?

Need to get something soon for my 11yo to go in an iPhone 5, we live in London so I assume signal won't be an issue? Are their customer services good? Thanks xx

ooh, another sim deal :smiley: cheers op, also have to check this one out :smiley:

​How long have you been with Virgin?

I managed to talk virgin into 5000 mins unlimited texts and 5gb data for £10 a month last month

Cheers,I'll do tomorrow,I'm passing £10.45 for the same deal. I find life mobile very good.

Can I port my number to this, and if so how hard is it to get your pac code off them when you want to move on?

I am already with Life mobile, on the £6, 1 gig tariff, how would I change to this

​I know but they are still regarded as Premium Rate services. Usually like '84623'

Worth calling them to activate this text service

Well sometimes premium rate but not necessarily..

I wanted to sign up to a free text service but can't. Things like bus stops use this service.

​Premium rate texts.

Speeds are usually pretty good with Life Mobile, I was with them for three months or so. Struggled for a voice signal where I live though so ended up changing. Life Mobile never managed to enable tethering for me which was a shame.

i switched from giffgaff to this. lunchtime in the city. giffgaff 0.1mbs if lucky on 4g. this has 2 to 3 mbs.

Just for info. I did a speedtest.net on my Life mobile account

17mpbs download
3.37mpbs upload.

In west London.

Hope this helps

I'm on the life Mobile £1 2gig 2000minutes tariff and will deffo look at switching to this when mine is finished

premium number

Found out texting landline gets charged 15p and does not count as part of contract.
Hope this helps someone.

forget my last comment - I just looked - https://www.uswitch.com/mobiles/sim_only_deal/a534aa17c41a242b81503c3d42269e04d7c85302?comparison=cD0vbW9iaWxlcy9jb21wYXJlL3NpbV9vbmx5X2RlYWxzLyZwbz0w

Is says 3G only. Are there any 4G equivalents, even if slightly more expensive?

Just beware you can't text 5 digit numbers with Life Mobile - probably not a big issue for many, but worth knowing.

1GB data more than usual for that money.