Vectone Mobile

Steve pointed this out in another thread, but I'd not seen it before so
worth mentioning:

http://www.vectonemobile.co.uk/

is a new PAYG - someone mentioned it's a T-mobile virtual. Some of the
promotions are interesting, though they all expire at the end of December:

1p/min on weekends to quite a few countries. The number of minutes is
restricted, but some of the countries are in traditionally 'expensive'
territory (eg 20 mins to Afghanistan, 1000 to China). There's a catch in
that this only works the weekend after you've topped up (so it's not quite
such a good deal as it originally sounds). Minimum topup is 5 pounds.

5p/min to UK mobiles and landlines, and 5p/text

Free Vectone-Vectone calls for the first 10 mins, then 5p/min.


Apart from the promotions, which are rather headline-grabbing but not
terribly useful afterwards, the prices on non-weekend international calls
are good - better than Lycamobile for the countries I checked.

Now I strongly suspect prices are going to go up in January, but if you can
use a topup's worth before then it's got quite a few things going for it.

Theo

Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> 1p/min on weekends to quite a few countries. The number of minutes is
> restricted, but some of the countries are in traditionally 'expensive'
> territory (eg 20 mins to Afghanistan, 1000 to China). There's a catch in
> that this only works the weekend after you've topped up (so it's not quite
> such a good deal as it originally sounds). Minimum topup is 5 pounds.

This is worse than I thought... it's only valid 'the next weekend when you
top up in the week'. So you can't topup to use it straightaway, you have to
topup between 1 and 6 days before. Fine if you make regular calls once a
month (say), but rapidly heading into chocolate teapot territory.

So, until January they have cheap calls, and that's about it. Possibly of
interest if you call international a lot and need to do it on the move or
don't have a landline/VOIP. But the offers are mostly a waste of time.

Theo

On 06 Nov 2009 17:44:53 +0000 (GMT), Theo Markettos wrote:
[...]
> So, until January they have cheap calls, and that's about it. Possibly of
> interest if you call international a lot and need to do it on the move or
> don't have a landline/VOIP. But the offers are mostly a waste of time.

Well, they are obviously targeting the same market as Lyca mobile or Lebara
mobile, but are slightly cheaper (even without their offers).


Christof

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