giffgaff is possibly the UK's cheapest mobile network! As a happy user
myself, I'd like to take this opportunity to share giffgaff with you
all...
- Cheap prices and packages (known as goodybags)
- Take your number with you hassle free
- True unlimited data/internet included with most goodybags
- BlackBerry Internet Services (BIS) available from £3
- Backed by market leader Telefonica O2 UK
- Runs on the O2 network - outstanding UK coverage
- £5 credit for joining (Issued upon activation/first top-up - see
below for full details)
£5 FREE credit is given upon activation (first top-up) to users who
signup using SIMs ordered via the link below. (Offer isn't available
directly via the website so be sure to order from below.)
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:02:54 +0000, giffgaff wrote:
(marketing for giffgaff)
It's somewhat dishonest to post eith a username of giffgaff when you are not actually giffgaff.
Even more to post a link with your affiliate information without disclosing the fact that you get 5 quid if someone orders a SIM.
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Bob Eager wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:02:54 +0000, giffgaff wrote:
> (marketing for giffgaff)
> you are not actually giffgaff.
I wondered why I'd seen you reply, without seeing the original, then I remembered, I've "soft-killed" all posts containing
X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsgroupbanter.com
Hmm, while giffgaff may be ok domestically, I should warn potential users that roaming overseas is may be much more limited than they claim.
My wife and I have recently returned from a trip to Central America, and she recently got a giffgaff SIM for her 3-band phone. Before going she checked from the giffgaff website that they had roaming throughout. Here experience contradicted this:
Costa Rica: phone registered ok, but any attempt to make a call got a message that the call was barred.
Panama: also registered ok, but any attempt to make a call got a message (in English only) "Dear customer your cellphone stop has been activated, dial *116 for information". She tried to call this number, but it got "call barred".
Colombia: also registered ok, and could call fixed line numbers in the UK, but attempts to call a UK mobile number repeatedly failed. Incoming calls worked.
It would be interesting to know whether this is because giffgaff needs to negotiate its own roaming agreements with the foreign cellphone companies and it has made a mess of these, or whether it relies upon the O2 roaming agreements, and these are defective?
> Hmm, while giffgaff may be ok domestically, I should warn potential
> users that roaming overseas is may be much more limited than they claim.
> My wife and I have recently returned from a trip to Central America, and
> she recently got a giffgaff SIM for her 3-band phone. Before going she
> checked from the giffgaff website that they had roaming throughout. Here
> experience contradicted this:
> Costa Rica: phone registered ok, but any attempt to make a call got a
> message that the call was barred.
> Panama: also registered ok, but any attempt to make a call got a message
> (in English only) "Dear customer your cellphone stop has been activated,
> dial *116 for information". She tried to call this number, but it got
> "call barred".
> Colombia: also registered ok, and could call fixed line numbers in the
> UK, but attempts to call a UK mobile number repeatedly failed. Incoming
> calls worked.
> It would be interesting to know whether this is because giffgaff needs
> to negotiate its own roaming agreements with the foreign cellphone
> companies and it has made a mess of these, or whether it relies upon the
> O2 roaming agreements, and these are defective?
http://travelabroad.o2-uktech.com/coverage.php tells me that if
you're on PAYG on O2 then Costa Rica is out, Panama is OK using
Movistar, and Colombia OK with Comtel and Telefonica Moviles.
Clive Page wrote:
> Hmm, while giffgaff may be ok domestically, I should warn potential
> users that roaming overseas is may be much more limited than they
> claim.
<snip>
As UK PAYG sims for roaming are so limited as to what networks
they can roam on i wouldn't use any
A Zero contract sim like Orange OVP Virgin with full roaming is good,
but a local sim will get you the best rates.
> On 17/02/12 10:27, Clive Page wrote:
>> Hmm, while giffgaff may be ok domestically, I should warn potential
>> users that roaming overseas is may be much more limited than they claim.
>> My wife and I have recently returned from a trip to Central America, and
>> she recently got a giffgaff SIM for her 3-band phone. Before going she
>> checked from the giffgaff website that they had roaming throughout. Here
>> experience contradicted this:
>> Costa Rica: phone registered ok, but any attempt to make a call got a
>> message that the call was barred.
>> Panama: also registered ok, but any attempt to make a call got a message
>> (in English only) "Dear customer your cellphone stop has been activated,
>> dial *116 for information". She tried to call this number, but it got
>> "call barred".
>> Colombia: also registered ok, and could call fixed line numbers in the
>> UK, but attempts to call a UK mobile number repeatedly failed. Incoming
>> calls worked.
>> It would be interesting to know whether this is because giffgaff needs
>> to negotiate its own roaming agreements with the foreign cellphone
>> companies and it has made a mess of these, or whether it relies upon the
>> O2 roaming agreements, and these are defective?
> http://travelabroad.o2-uktech.com/coverage.php tells me that if
> you're on PAYG on O2 then Costa Rica is out, Panama is OK using
> Movistar, and Colombia OK with Comtel and Telefonica Moviles.
We're going to China shortly. Does anyone know if giffgaff works there?
There are also limitations on ships where one cannot make o/g calls or send texts via the MCP service (unlike O2 users).
On 2012-02-23, Victor Delta <n...@nospam.com> wrote:
> We're going to China shortly. Does anyone know if giffgaff works there?
You'll be lucky - though it would be good to know. Of the main 5,
only O2 claims to be able to roam with PAYG, and outside of the Beijing
you have to use a callback system of calling - though I've not tried this.
Lycamobile (which uses O2) claims to roam in China and even asking their
customer service peeps they confirmed it would, but the SIM I have
resolutely failed to register anywhere in the areas of Shenzhen, Kaiping,
Jiangmen and Guangzhou. (It did work in Hong Kong.)
>>"Analogue Cheese ..." wrote in message >>news:9zH1r.102619$ZT6.5016@newsfe23.ams2... We're going to China shortly. >>Does anyone know if giffgaff works there?
>I heard a while back you can't take a mobile phone into China.........
>>>"Analogue Cheese ..." wrote in message >>>news:9zH1r.102619$ZT6.5016@newsfe23.ams2... We're going to China shortly. >>>Does anyone know if giffgaff works there?
>>I heard a while back you can't take a mobile phone into China.........
> Yes you can - I took two!
few years ago I got a faulty one sent to me from China and when I went to post it back at the Post Office mobile phones were on the list of things that could not be posted to China ...... honest!
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:13:43 -0000, just as I was about to take a
herb, "Second Stage Lensman" <!nosp...@nospam.invalid> disturbed my
reverie and wrote:
>Yes you can - I took two!
Did 'they' find them?
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>>>I heard a while back you can't take a mobile phone into China.........
>> Yes you can - I took two!
>few years ago I got a faulty one sent to me from China and when I went to >post it back at the Post Office mobile phones were on the list of things >that could not be posted to China ...... honest!
there is probably a big difference between posting a phone to China,
and a visitor carrying one for their own use.
> On 16 Feb 2012 16:19:10 GMT, "dishonest" Bob Eager <news0...@eager.cx>
> wrote:
>>Even more to post a link with your affiliate information without
>>disclosing the fact that you get 5 quid if someone orders a SIM.
> Says one "dishonest" spammer to another.
> Pot meets kettle:
> Message-ID: <9pe1irFtme...@mid.individual.net>
Note that it does say a couple of posts upthread to Bob's, [which Bob quoted but you didn't] that the affiliate gets a fiver too, and he posted in response to a solicitation for such information. Your posting strikes me as being malevolently economical with the quoting, to what end I've no idea.
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