When is a mobile phone contract not a contract? When it’s from giffgaff
Monday 24th May 2010, 8:00AM BST.
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We all know the drill nowadays don’t we? We see the advertisement for the latest best pay monthly tariffs for mobiles, we sign up to receive our ‘free’ phone and commit ourselves to up to 24 months of excessive payments for the privilege of being able to use our no-cost handset!
giffgaff is promising to offer its customers all the benefits of a pay monthly contract, without the need to sign a contract and commit to two years of costly monthly payments.
How is it possible for the network to break the mould in the competitive world of mobile phones and contract sales? The answer is surprisingly simple. giffgaff does not sell mobile phones. It simply acts as a SIM card provider, offering a pay as you go SIM only solution. This means that when you join giffgaff, you will not receive a new mobile phone, but that you can simply slide the new giffgaff SIM card into your existing handset and begin experiencing the benefits of being a new giffgaff member immediately!
The innovative network has addressed the issue of fairness by providing auto-top ups and goodybags that have the benefits of a monthly contract, often involving levels of access that you would expect only from the most expensive pay monthly tariffs. For example:
- Just £5 will allow you to make unlimited texts for a month.
- Just £10 will allow you unlimited texts and unlimited Internet usage on your mobile for one month as well as 100 minutes of free calls to all UK landlines and mobiles.
- Just £15 will allow you unlimited texts and unlimited Internet usage on your mobile for one month as well as 300 minutes of free calls to all UK landlines and mobiles.
- Just £30 will give you unlimited texts, Internet usage and calls for one whole month.
Even if you don’t want to use the giffgaff goodybag bundles, you will find that their pay as you go sim only rates are among the best in the country. Once you have got your free sim card, you can benefit from rates as low as just 4p per text message or 8p per minute phone calls. This means that even if you don’t want an auto-top up goody bag, you can still benefit from the magnificent savings on offer as a pay as you go customer.
For giffgaff customers it really is a double whammy – you are not only getting the best pay monthly mobile deals in the UK, but also the free SIM card pay as you go rates available anywhere in the UK. And remember, with no contracts to sign, you can adapt your giffgaff plan to suit your changing requirements exactly and switch between a pay as you go card and one of the goodybag offers whenever you feel like.
So, why not go to giffgaff.com and apply for your new SIM card now? Then why not get your friends to order their SIM cards too and you can all start saving money by using giffgaff – the SIM card provider that dares to believe every phone user should be given a fair chance to use their phone at a price they can afford.
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