Also two things to note about giffgaff: - You can't surcharge goodybags on top of each other. (If you use up a goodybag before its expiry date, you aren't allowed to buy another one until the original expiry date. So always buy one that has more allowance than you need, except...) - The £10 goodybag comes with 1GB of mobile data which allows tethering, but the more expensive goodybags with unlimited data disallow tethering altogether (rather than limiting your speed). On 1 Aug 2014 01:09, "Joseph Fox" josephfoxwiki@gmail.com wrote:
Well, obviously Giffgaff isn’t going to be as good as the more expensive carriers, but you really can’t beat £12 for unlimited data even if it is occasionally quite slow ;)
Joe
On 31 July 2014 at 05:50:08 pm, Deryck Chan (deryckchan@gmail.com) wrote:
I think they were around the South Bank / London Bridge / Chinatown area and had unbearably slow speed. Perhaps I'm just too pessimistic about it! On 31 Jul 2014 23:36, "Fabian Tompsett" fabian.tompsett@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Well I use Giffgaff in central London with no problems . . .
all the best
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On 31 July 2014 16:33, Deryck Chan deryckchan@gmail.com wrote:
Oh no, giffgaff basically doesn't work in London! I learnt it the hard way when my family visited me last year. (I used to live in Cambridge where giffgaff is great.)
This is because giffgaff is a virtual operator over O2 and a subsidiary of O2 (think of a flag carrier airline's budget branch) so giffgaff users need to give way to O2 users in areas with many users. And in central London, it means there's little or no data bandwidth left for giffgaff.
So expect your goodybag to give you nothing but a dumbphone plan. On 29 Jul 2014 21:12, "Sam Reed" reedy@wikimedia.org wrote:
I’ve just ordered a stack (30) of UK sim cards for Wikimania. This is a mix of dual normal/micro sims, and also some nano sims..
They’re with giffgaff [1], and come with 5 GBP credit. If you get a £10 “goodybag” [2], it comes with 1GB mobile data and uk minutes/texts. Can get 4G on it too.
International rates are at [3]
Oh, and you can contact anyone else with a giffgaff sim for free too.
I’ll be down in London from the 5th, so if anyone wants one, come find me.
Sam
[2] http://giffgaff.com/goodybags
[3] http://giffgaff.com/index/international
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