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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: tigers_gonads on 10 October 2013, 15:25:42
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Can you transfer your old O2 number over to a gifgaf tariff ?
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Er..you can open a new account with GiffGaff and retain your old number but as far as I know they are separate companies so no direct 'transfer', GiffGaff just pays to use the O2 network.
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Er..you can open a new account with GiffGaff and retain your old number but as far as I know they are separate companies so no direct 'transfer', GiffGaff just pays to use the O2 network.
Sorry bud, that's what I meant ::) :-[
Bit hectic in here at the moment ;D ;D
Thanks
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Yes you can, just request PAC code. You can transfer the number you have to any network you wish :y
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But be warned that they seem to have more than their fair share of infrastructure issues resulting on no service ::)
Fine if the phone is just for personal use but if you are running a 24/7, Emergency Call out business it can be rather awkward :-X ::)
Thankfully it's just my backup phone so no harm :y
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But be warned that they seem to have more than their fair share of infrastructure issues resulting on no service ::)
Fine if the phone is just for personal use but if you are running a 24/7, Emergency Call out business it can be rather awkward :-X ::)
Thankfully it's just my backup phone so no harm :y
Unless they have changed their T&C's recently, i think you might find in their T&C's its personal use only ;)
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NiffNaff have had a really bad couple of weeks. Normally its just trying to pay for the service thats a pain in the arse, but the last couple of weeks has made using the service slightly difficult.
That said, the number of issues I've had with the actual service itself over the last 2 or 3 years, I'll keep using them for a bit longer - not through any loyalty, but because round here O2 is the only viable service, so that means O2, Tesco or NiffNaff.
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Any updates on how the service has been with gifgaf , just ordered a sim :)
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I cancelled all my NiffNaff accounts, bar one (the carphone, that needs a 900Mhz GSM provider).
3G coverage is poor. 4G even worse. Data speeds were N/A as data rarely worked.
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Just need it for 3310 spare phone , no internet :y
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Just need it for 3310 spare phone , no internet :y
Ah, bloody perfect then :y
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As a spare I would recommend them but many people are disappointed with them ::)
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As a spare I would recommend them but many people are disappointed with them ::)
Depends on needs/expectations. For a bog standard, non Smartphone, it works well if you can tolerate the fact you can't rely on their payment systems to work, meaning you run out of credit unexpectedly.
For data use, avoid.
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Used GG for the last 6 months. Really wanted to like it but I was frequently struggling to make calls, even when the phone was showing full signal strength. Initially thought it was my phone at fault.
Internet was a real pain as it would often not work. Google Maps would never work despite four bars of signal, so navigation often stopped and would not display the maps for many minutes.
Absolutely awful. Moved to a mainstream provider and have had seamless calls and internet for the last month or so. To be honest moving to a different provider has made me realise how crap GG was.
This thread is interesting, because when I moved to GG, the overall feedback was positive.
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Yes there seems to be a mixed response , not interested in internet so just calls and texts . I will give it a go for a month .
Wonder how Mr Gonads got on with gg :-\
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I've dug out me old Nokia and it still works ... 3310 still holds charge
:) Only thing is there are no tariffs on gif for Just calls
and texts , every tariff includes Data ? Is that internet access ?
As i don't need that :-\
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Used GG for the last 6 months. Really wanted to like it but I was frequently struggling to make calls, even when the phone was showing full signal strength. Initially thought it was my phone at fault.
Internet was a real pain as it would often not work. Google Maps would never work despite four bars of signal, so navigation often stopped and would not display the maps for many minutes.
Absolutely awful. Moved to a mainstream provider and have had seamless calls and internet for the last month or so. To be honest moving to a different provider has made me realise how crap GG was.
This thread is interesting, because when I moved to GG, the overall feedback was positive.
For me, GG went down the Gary Glitter just over a year ago. Went from a pretty good, if somewhat quirky, provider into a amateur, unreliable, useless provider. The problem is, if you sing their praises on their forum, they give you money, which skews a lot of people's perception... ...and even users become almost blind to the problem.
About a year ago, I moved my primary phone to EE (after trying PAYG on all networks bar Voda (no signal here), which has been shockingly brilliant. Granted, I now pay a tenner a month for 1.1Gb data, 200mins and unlimited txt, whereas with NiffNaff I paid £7.50 for 250Mb data (pointless having more, as it never worked anyway), 200min, unlimited text.
Slowly, I've moved all my others, along with Mrs TB, to EE, except the telematics in the MV6. That needs to stay O2 or Voda based, and NiffNaff is the cheapest O2 based provider I can find.
I rarely ever have trouble with calls - the occasion one going to VM when I know I've had a signal, but I had that on O2 as well. It was just data, which was utterly hopeless.
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I've dug out me old Nokia and it still works ... 3310 still holds charge
:) Only thing is there are no tariffs on gif for Just calls
and texts , every tariff includes Data ? Is that internet access ?
As i don't need that :-\
Correct. How many mins do you need?
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I've dug out me old Nokia and it still works ... 3310 still holds charge
:) Only thing is there are no tariffs on gif for Just calls
and texts , every tariff includes Data ? Is that internet access ?
As i don't need that :-\
Correct. How many mins do you need?
1-200 mins with unlimited text :)
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I've dug out me old Nokia and it still works ... 3310 still holds charge
:) Only thing is there are no tariffs on gif for Just calls
and texts , every tariff includes Data ? Is that internet access ?
As i don't need that :-\
Correct. How many mins do you need?
1-200 mins with unlimited text :)
So £7.50 is probably the niffnaff one you need :(
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Yes there seems to be a mixed response , not interested in internet so just calls and texts . I will give it a go for a month .
Wonder how Mr Gonads got on with gg :-\
And sim cards at 99p :D
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I've dug out me old Nokia and it still works ... 3310 still holds charge
:) Only thing is there are no tariffs on gif for Just calls
and texts , every tariff includes Data ? Is that internet access ?
As i don't need that :-\
Correct. How many mins do you need?
1-200 mins with unlimited text :)
So £7.50 is probably the niffnaff one you need :(
Yeah thats for this but i dont want data and will be paying for not using data :(
250 UK minutes
Unlimited UK texts
500 MB UK Data
Free to giffgaff numbers
Any other sim only deals that are just for us oldies with calls and text phones :-\
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What underlying network do you want/prefer. That's the first choice.
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What underlying network do you want/prefer. That's the first choice.
The network you choose depends on where you live, surely? 3 recently came top in a survey about coverage, but it's hit and miss around here.
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If you just want low mins and high texts your probably better off going on a 30 day rolling monthly Sim Only with one of the Networks
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Used GG for the last 6 months. Really wanted to like it but I was frequently struggling to make calls, even when the phone was showing full signal strength. Initially thought it was my phone at fault.
Internet was a real pain as it would often not work. Google Maps would never work despite four bars of signal, so navigation often stopped and would not display the maps for many minutes.
Absolutely awful. Moved to a mainstream provider and have had seamless calls and internet for the last month or so. To be honest moving to a different provider has made me realise how crap GG was.
This thread is interesting, because when I moved to GG, the overall feedback was positive.
For me, GG went down the Gary Glitter just over a year ago. Went from a pretty good, if somewhat quirky, provider into a amateur, unreliable, useless provider. The problem is, if you sing their praises on their forum, they give you money, which skews a lot of people's perception... ...and even users become almost blind to the problem.
About a year ago, I moved my primary phone to EE (after trying PAYG on all networks bar Voda (no signal here), which has been shockingly brilliant. Granted, I now pay a tenner a month for 1.1Gb data, 200mins and unlimited txt, whereas with NiffNaff I paid £7.50 for 250Mb data (pointless having more, as it never worked anyway), 200min, unlimited text.
Slowly, I've moved all my others, along with Mrs TB, to EE, except the telematics in the MV6. That needs to stay O2 or Voda based, and NiffNaff is the cheapest O2 based provider I can find.
I rarely ever have trouble with calls - the occasion one going to VM when I know I've had a signal, but I had that on O2 as well. It was just data, which was utterly hopeless.
Interesting, because I did just that. Switched to EE, unlimited mins and txts with 10GB of 4G data for 8ppm. I had this nagging feeling something was wrong with GG. Unfortunately where we live in Surrey has always had awful reception and I put it down to that rather than GG. It was the lack of maps working that drove me around the bend and forced me to switch. Once ported, I couldnt believe the difference. And 4G coverage seems very good so far. Even working deep within the depths of my workplace. So far EE has been great for me.
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My contract phone has always been with virgin , the reception has always been great . They do a sim only rolling 30 day contract for :
250MB
250 min
Unlimited texts .... all for £5
Again your paying for the MB that wont be used :(
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My contract phone has always been with virgin , the reception has always been great . They do a sim only rolling 30 day contract for :
250MB
250 min
Unlimited texts .... all for £5
Again your paying for the MB that wont be used :(
To be fair though, most deals nowadays have some data thrown in with them. Say you went for a PAYG sim from Three (http://www.three.co.uk/Store/Pay_As_You_Go_Price_Plans). They have the cheapest calling rates around 3ppm. So £5 gets you 167 mins. So the plan above is better even if you dont use the data allowance. I think you would be hard pushed to find a sim deal that costs less than £5 pm.
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If you want the phone for occasional calls and texts then GiffGaff allows you to top up as and when required with no time limits, which is what I use it for where I work from home, so I only occasionally need it when I'm out, mainly for receiving calls.
Where I recently upgraded to a Crapple 5s I might look at monthly data at some point, but Wifi use is currently sufficient.
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If you want the phone for occasional calls and texts then GiffGaff allows you to top up as and when required with no time limits, which is what I use it for where I work from home, so I only occasionally need it when I'm out, mainly for receiving calls.
Nope, they cut you off and take your credit if you don't use it for 6 months...
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Sorted :D
Phoned virgin , my contract was up so put my main mobile on 30 day rolling for the same data , 100 mins more calls + texts for £7 less :o
Then they will send me a new sim for the spare one on payg with £5 + £10 free top up :o :o
They did try and put me on a new 24 month contract with a Lumia6 or something but i declined ::)
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If you want the phone for occasional calls and texts then GiffGaff allows you to top up as and when required with no time limits, which is what I use it for where I work from home, so I only occasionally need it when I'm out, mainly for receiving calls.
Nope, they cut you off and take your credit if you don't use it for 6 months...
They never have mine. Put £10 on 2.5 years a go and still have just over £2 left. I'm not a big mobile user as I mainly use landline where I'm at home most of the time.
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If you want the phone for occasional calls and texts then GiffGaff allows you to top up as and when required with no time limits, which is what I use it for where I work from home, so I only occasionally need it when I'm out, mainly for receiving calls.
Nope, they cut you off and take your credit if you don't use it for 6 months...
They never have mine. Put £10 on 2.5 years a go and still have just over £2 left. I'm not a big mobile user as I mainly use landline where I'm at home most of the time.
Given you've used £8 of credit in the last 2.5yrs, its likely you have made a call or sent a text at least once every 6 months, which keeps it alive. Its if you don't use it at all in that time period, it gets cancelled. I should point out, most operators do this, its not unique to GG
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If you want the phone for occasional calls and texts then GiffGaff allows you to top up as and when required with no time limits, which is what I use it for where I work from home, so I only occasionally need it when I'm out, mainly for receiving calls.
Nope, they cut you off and take your credit if you don't use it for 6 months...
They never have mine. Put £10 on 2.5 years a go and still have just over £2 left. I'm not a big mobile user as I mainly use landline where I'm at home most of the time.
Given you've used £8 of credit in the last 2.5yrs, its likely you have made a call or sent a text at least once every 6 months, which keeps it alive. Its if you don't use it at all in that time period, it gets cancelled. I should point out, most operators do this, its not unique to GG
They send you an email telling you you need to make a call or send a text within the next 30 days or the number will expire and you will have to re-register it. :y
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If you want the phone for occasional calls and texts then GiffGaff allows you to top up as and when required with no time limits, which is what I use it for where I work from home, so I only occasionally need it when I'm out, mainly for receiving calls.
Nope, they cut you off and take your credit if you don't use it for 6 months...
They never have mine. Put £10 on 2.5 years a go and still have just over £2 left. I'm not a big mobile user as I mainly use landline where I'm at home most of the time.
Given you've used £8 of credit in the last 2.5yrs, its likely you have made a call or sent a text at least once every 6 months, which keeps it alive. Its if you don't use it at all in that time period, it gets cancelled. I should point out, most operators do this, its not unique to GG
They send you an email telling you you need to make a call or send a text within the next 30 days or the number will expire and you will have to re-register it. :y
I wouldn't rely on the email, given GG's inability to implement technology. I've certainly fallen foul of it.