Anyone using 1p Mobile?

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tourerman

Original Poster:

105 posts

212 months

Thursday 16th November 2023
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As above… they’re on the EE network as an MVNO and he’s the same bandwidth throughout.

I’m on EE now and contract ends soon so looking at options. I like EE coverage but their costs are flying and overseas roaming charges are silly.

1pM have it included and decent bundles.

Any real world experience?

Mr-B

3,794 posts

196 months

Friday 17th November 2023
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On EE too and wondered about 1p so hoping there are some other replies to this.

JQ

5,777 posts

181 months

Friday 17th November 2023
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I have my kids phones on Tesco mobile sim only deals which looks a very similar price to 1p Mobile. Tesco use EE and the service seems fine.

largespiced

165 posts

139 months

Friday 17th November 2023
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JQ said:
I have my kids phones on Tesco mobile sim only deals which looks a very similar price to 1p Mobile. Tesco use EE and the service seems fine.
I believe Tesco use o2

Captain Answer

1,355 posts

189 months

Friday 17th November 2023
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Just moved to them from O2 in the last week, so far so good calls and texts all flying through and data reception actually works, had wifi off on phone all week to test vs few week ago sat in my house when broadband went out and 02 was showing "4g+" yet couldn't browse anything, and that wasn't the first time we'd had that at home or other places

JQ

5,777 posts

181 months

Friday 17th November 2023
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largespiced said:
JQ said:
I have my kids phones on Tesco mobile sim only deals which looks a very similar price to 1p Mobile. Tesco use EE and the service seems fine.
I believe Tesco use o2
Cheers, that could have been an absolute disaster as I'm in the process of buying a new phone for my son for Christmas and I was certain they used EE. You're quite right.

anonymous-user

56 months

Friday 17th November 2023
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I am with Lebara who piggy back off the Vodafone network and for £5 a month I get

5GB Data
1000 UK minutes
1000 UK Texts
100 International Minutes
5G

Plus free Europe roaming, which for me is massively useful when on Holiday.

I personally think it is a brilliant deal and the price hasn't gone up in years.

768

13,812 posts

98 months

Friday 17th November 2023
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I need something like this as well, didn't realise EEs network was being resold like this.

What's the catch?

wyson

2,095 posts

106 months

Friday 17th November 2023
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mobile_virtu...

If you want to know what MVNO’s use what network, wikipedia has a handy page.

wyson

2,095 posts

106 months

Friday 17th November 2023
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768 said:
I need something like this as well, didn't realise EEs network was being resold like this.

What's the catch?
Look at the wikipedia table I posted above, some EE MVNO’s don’t support features like wifi calling, esims etc, whereas EE is fully featured. Apple watch is esim only so you can’t use it on a MVNO that doesn’t support them.

Edited by wyson on Friday 17th November 17:34

BoRED S2upid

19,762 posts

242 months

Friday 17th November 2023
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Are EE costs really that expensive? I’ve been on a £10pm contract for years well actually 3x £10 contracts. Yes they try and put them up but as always you call to cancel and it goes straight back down.

gr1340

980 posts

205 months

Friday 17th November 2023
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I have 2 plans with 1p mobile, I took them out after Plusnet advised they were stopping their sims so transferred my numbers over.

No problems to report, both plans are £10 a month and give 25gb of data which is plenty for us. Signal is as expected with EE and no throttling, WiFi calling works and although no app, the website works fine.

I did have to contact customer service once and they were quick to respond and very helpful.

I would not hesitate to use them again.

wyson

2,095 posts

106 months

Friday 17th November 2023
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https://www.simsherpa.com/networks/1p-mobile/revie...

Says ^^^ 1p mobile doesn’t support visual voicemail, esims nor call forwarding whereas EE supports them all.

768

13,812 posts

98 months

Friday 17th November 2023
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Ordering it now. smile

OMITN

2,221 posts

94 months

Friday 17th November 2023
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768 said:
I need something like this as well, didn't realise EEs network was being resold like this.

What's the catch?
It’s been a while since I worked in mobile so I may be out of date.

A mobile network comprises both the masts and also complex telephony network systems. Only a mobile network operator (MNO) has all of this - in the U.K. there are four: O2, Vodafone, EE, Three.


The MNOs sell their network capacity directly to end users. They also sell their capacity through mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs).

There are many MVNOs and they are all set up slightly differently. None of them have direct access to the mast infrastructure, but some of them - for example Sky - have the background network. They just plug that in to the O2 network. These are “full” MVNOs. There aren’t many as they cost 10s of millions to build. The primary difference is that they have full control over what they offer to their customers - pricing, services, roaming, data rollovers, etc.

There are also “lite” MVNOs that range from not quite as full as Sky all the way to “thin” MVNOs who just rebrand an MNO’s SIM card and have their name appear on the phone screen instead of the MNO. These thin MVNOs are just selling the same airtime packages as the MNO offers.

But…. all that aside all the consumer needs to worry about is: am I getting a good deal, will whoever’s MNO I’m really on provide me with good coverage and what happens if I use my phone abroad.

Some of the MVNOs are more well known than others. Some are more robust businesses than others. Some are niche providers - eg Lebara who focus on international calling.

Howard-

4,953 posts

204 months

Friday 17th November 2023
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I have been with 1p for a couple of months, moving away from o2. Best thing I ever did. EE's network is absolutely superb.

wyson

2,095 posts

106 months

Friday 17th November 2023
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BoRED S2upid said:
Are EE costs really that expensive? I’ve been on a £10pm contract for years well actually 3x £10 contracts. Yes they try and put them up but as always you call to cancel and it goes straight back down.
What are you getting for the £10?

PBCD

730 posts

140 months

Saturday 18th November 2023
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gr1340 said:
I have 2 plans with 1p mobile, I took them out after Plusnet advised they were stopping their sims so transferred my numbers over.

No problems to report, both plans are £10 a month and give 25gb of data which is plenty for us. Signal is as expected with EE and no throttling, WiFi calling works and although no app, the website works fine...
Funny you should say that - I've been trying to top up my balance but 1pmobile.com has been
down for the past couple of hours! frown

mikey_b

1,863 posts

47 months

Saturday 18th November 2023
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I pay for a SIM for my 12yo which is on 1p Mobile. I pay £6 a month for her SIM, which gives her 4GB of data. Calls are 1p a minute, and texts are also 1p although mostly she uses iMessage or WhatsApp which comes from data allowances anyway.

Highly recommended - no issues at all, it works speedily and coverage is excellent. Wifi calling from home, and includes EU roaming still.

I was so impressed with it that I now use a MVNO myself, although not 1p Mobile as there's a location I often go to that doesn't seem to get EE signal, so I use Talkmobile which is part of Vodafone.

audi321

5,249 posts

215 months

Saturday 18th November 2023
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I'm on 1p mobile with my gate opener as they were the only non 3G sim card that I could find.

I have no problems with them for my use case, although it is limited use.