Anyone using 1p Mobile?
Discussion
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?
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?
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
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 o2I 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.
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.
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.
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.
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. What's the catch?
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.
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 beenNo 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...
down for the past couple of hours!
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.
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.
I'm with 3 at the moment, which is usually fine. The one thing I dislike about it are the roaming charges at £2 a day for Europe and £5 for the rest of the world.
Whilst that's not a big deal for a couple of weeks away a year, I'm going to be doing a lot more travel abroad for work soon where it will quickly mount up so would be good to change to a carrier where roaming charges don't apply.
Whilst that's not a big deal for a couple of weeks away a year, I'm going to be doing a lot more travel abroad for work soon where it will quickly mount up so would be good to change to a carrier where roaming charges don't apply.
I’d be wary of other MVNO’s network claims (I know 1p supposedly have access to all the bands) - recently tried a cheap Lycamobile SIM, on the basis that it uses EE’s network (which is better than Vodafone in some places I need it) - reception was genuinely appalling, even in the middle of London. Often had no reception at all (not just data, anything) in Zones 1 and 2, let alone in the sticks. Cheap for a reason.
Edited by NomduJour on Sunday 19th November 11:52
I've yet to quite work out what the catch is with 1p. I can only assume that they get the economies of scale from EE when buying access to the full amount of bandwidth while having minimal other costs - no fancy advertising, no-frills website, etc. But it's absolutely excellent - I get great reception in places I could dream of with o2 and Three, and even 5G in some surprisingly remote spots.
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