I just blagged myself a stonking deal this afternoon. I must caveat it by saying that we have been customers of EE for yonks and have our mobiles (SIM only) at £7.83 each per month; home 4G router at £45 per month with unlimited data; and landline with them.
I started the conversation off regarding our SIM only deals. The data allowance on this is rubbish and I know that there are some cracking deals out there however because I am an existing customer with an older contract, I don't pay EU roaming charges with EE. Anyway I rang the "Are you thinking of leaving EE?" line and explained my position.
A most helpful chap there has now set me up with...
- My home 4G router with a new SIM card for £27 per month saving £216 per year. It's unlimited data again however I am getting a new SIM which is a mobile phone SIM card. As such I can now gift up to 100Gig of data a month off it.
- I kept the existing old £7.83 a month SIM only contracts running for our mobiles but I can now put 50Gig on to each mobile a month with my new 4G router SIM.
- I keep the free EU roaming as I haven't cancelled my old mobile contract PLUS (subject to fair use policy which I think is 50Gig per month) I can hotspot off either of our mobiles to use the gifted 50Gig of data on each phone when abroad. This also means I can watch BBC abroad as well without worrying abut getting a VPN.
This has sorted us now for the next 2 years. We take the home router with us away in the MH in the UK so get unlimited data on that plus we now basically get more data than we need when abroad....and have saved 18 quid a month too