UK help needed please!

acrossthepond · Jun 22, 2013

So, after the thick end of ten years out of the country, we're coming back to the UK. It seems to me to have changed a bit.....

Can the fount of wisdom that is NSC (when it's not tearing itself apart over poyetgate) please point us in the right direction on sensible deals for stuff like:

Mobile phone contracts.
Utilities providers
Phone/TV/Internet stuff

And any other pointers for how to set yourself up in the UK.

Cheers all,

atp

Goldstone Rapper · Jun 22, 2013

The consensus of NSC is that 3 and Giffgaff are the best mobile phone operators. Giffgaff offer the best deals while 3 are close behind while also offering hope of data reception at the Amex.

dougdeep · Jun 22, 2013

Goldstone Rapper said:
The consensus of NSC is that 3 and Giffgaff are the best mobile phone operators. Giffgaff offer the best deals while 3 are close behind while also offering hope of data reception at the Amex.

Don't you have the Amex ap?

Garage_Doors · Jun 22, 2013

Goldstone Rapper said:
The consensus of NSC is that 3 and Giffgaff are the best mobile phone operators. Giffgaff offer the best deals while 3 are close behind while also offering hope of data reception at the Amex.

I prefer Virgin.
600 min u/l texts u/l data including tethering for £6.32 a month.

Lord Bracknell · Jun 22, 2013

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Hillian1 · Jun 22, 2013

Stay where you are, unless it's Syria.

That is my only advice.

Notters · Jun 22, 2013

Goldstone Rapper said:
The consensus of NSC is that 3 and Giffgaff are the best mobile phone operators. Giffgaff offer the best deals while 3 are close behind while also offering hope of data reception at the Amex.

I've never heard anything but bad things said about Three, including from myself.

Utilities - depends upon the size of your household and the type of heating, etc. - just use http://www.uswitch.com/gas-electricity-enquiry/

Other stuff - depends where you live.

beorhthelm · Jun 22, 2013

Programme_Seller said:
I prefer Virgin.
600 min u/l texts u/l data including tethering for £6.32 a month.

what network does Virgin piggyback? and is there really tethering? so many of the others bar it, i dont see why if you stay within a download allowance.

Vegas Seagull · Jun 22, 2013

Think more about how to make money, not save money

Pinkie Brown · Jun 22, 2013

beorhthelm said:
what network does Virgin piggyback? .

Unless things have changed, it was always T Mobile.

Winker · Jun 22, 2013

Jump out of the back of a truck in Dover and say you are from (insert name of any country in the world) and you will be given priority treatment by the state.

Goldstone Rapper · Jun 22, 2013

Notters said:
I've never heard anything but bad things said about Three, including from myself.

Utilities - depends upon the size of your household and the type of heating, etc. - just use http://www.uswitch.com/gas-electricity-enquiry/

Other stuff - depends where you live.

I don't doubt that some people have bad experiences with Three (and I know their coverage was awful when they started). Nevertheless, I switched to them mainly because of the positive feedback about them on NSC, although GiffGaff do seem the most highly recommended on here.

Cheshire Cat · Jun 22, 2013

Just stay where you are - its crap here.

Garage_Doors · Jun 22, 2013

beorhthelm said:
what network does Virgin piggyback? and is there really tethering? so many of the others bar it, i dont see why if you stay within a download allowance.

Comes off T Mobile, not sure what the question re tethering is but i use the hotspot on the iphone and pick it up on the ipad with excellent results.
When in the car the speed is ver good, no delays.

Lyndhurst 14 · Jun 22, 2013

Hillian1 said:
Stay where you are, unless it's Syria.

That is my only advice.

Agreed

Cheshire Cat said:
Just stay where you are -

Agreed

Phat Baz 68 · Jun 23, 2013

3 is utterly dreadful !! It's ok in a major city but go out of the city and no coverage.
EE is probably the outright best as you get TMobile and Orange networks to use.

brixtonA23 · Jun 23, 2013

acrossthepond said:
So, after the thick end of ten years out of the country, we're coming back to the UK. It seems to me to have changed a bit.....

Can the fount of wisdom that is NSC (when it's not tearing itself apart over poyetgate) please point us in the right direction on sensible deals for stuff like:

Mobile phone contracts.
Utilities providers
Phone/TV/Internet stuff

And any other pointers for how to set yourself up in the UK.

Cheers all,

atp

Will the moderators please identify cheap market research questions. If you can use a computer then there isn't a discussion about how the world has changed neither all questions related to one particular subject. I may be horribly wrong. But I don't think so.

topbanana36 · Jun 23, 2013

Lyndhurst 14 said:
Agreed

Agreed

He may have a reason to want to come back. How bad is the UK really? In beautiful NZ it has one of the highest suicide rate amongst teenagers per capita in the OECD it also has one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates, it also has more child abuse than a lot of western countries.

I also have no cell coverage whatsoever, no superfast broadband and no football live on TV soon. I also don't have the Albion, so the UK isn't all that bad.

Hatterlovesbrighton · Jun 23, 2013

brixtonA23 said:
Will the moderators please identify cheap market research questions. If you can use a computer then there isn't a discussion about how the world has changed neither all questions related to one particular subject. I may be horribly wrong. But I don't think so.

You are horribly wrong

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