Cheap UK Mobile Plans - Finally Progress?

HaZardousLP · October 12, 2013

I'm not in the UK and from Australia everything seems pretty cheap but after the progression of carriers in the US like T-Mobile allowing much cheaper roaming there seems to finally be some movement. TalkTalk Mobile is offering some SIM-only plans that seem really cheap. Roaming charges everywhere are super expensive but what about close to home? Carriers can charge what they want and generally do so it's great to see plans that don't actually cost that much.

Their cheapest is the £3.50 plan which gets you 100 minutes, 250 texts and 100MB of data per month. Next step up is £7.50 which gets you 500 minutes, unlimited texts and 500MB of data. The large plan is £15 and gives you unlimited calls and texts with 2GB of data. From my understanding they are all 1 year contracts and if you sign up online your data gets doubled which is great.

Being someone who uses a lot of data, the option to get 4GB a month is the option I'd go for but they all look pretty good. Personally I pay AU$59 a month (+$10 for the phone) to get $750 of calls and texts and 3GB of data. This equates to about £35 and I'm not even getting the same deal! Now I'm well aware of the size of the country and the fact it doesn't cost so much to maintain the infrastructure required but these cheap plans differ far too much.

So does this mean we're finally moving somewhere or are these just short-lived glimpses of hope like I believe Sprint's unlimited data plan was?

Article: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/talktalk-cheapest-plans-prices,24647.html