Sometimes, if rarely, these things actually work in your favour. Many years ago, I signed up for a PAYG [pay as you go] mobile tariff with O2 [in UK]. It offered 300 texts and 500mb data for £10/month top-up. The really unusual thing with this tariff though was that, unlike every other tariff I'm aware of, whatever credit you hadn't used at the end of the month carried over to the next month. Usually, with these kind of tariffs, the credit resets every month.
So, as I rarely use the phone for phonecalls I usually have most of that £10 left at the end of every month and it just keeps accumulating. Last time I checked, I had about £260 of credit. Since you can buy Android apps on the Google Play Store and charge them to your phone credit, this means I can effectively get any Android app I want for free. In addition to this, I get a 10% 'reward' back every three months on my top-ups. So, every three months, I get £3 back from 02. I save these up until I've got £10 or £20 of Rewards credit and then exchange it for Amazon vouchers. So, every now and then, I get some free Amazon stuff too.
I'm 100% convinced that some bean counter at O2 made a colossal cock-up, when coming up with this tariff because it was only available for a short time before disappearing and [as I said] I'm not aware of anything like that being offered by anyone else.
O2 keep trying to persuade me to 'upgrade' to a 'better' tariff, which would offer a bit more data and/or texts, in return for my credit disappearing at the end of every month. Er... no thanks. I'll stick with the one I'm on.
I'm actually surprised they haven't [yet!]force moved me to another tariff and cancelled this one.
[Hope no-one from O2 is reading this. Don't want to give them ideas!]
Sometimes, if rarely, these things actually work in your favour. Many years ago, I signed up for a PAYG [pay as you go] mobile tariff with O2 [in UK]. It offered 300 texts and 500mb data for £10/month top-up. The really unusual thing with this tariff though was that, unlike every other tariff I'm aware of, whatever credit you hadn't used at the end of the month carried over to the next month. Usually, with these kind of tariffs, the credit resets every month.
So, as I rarely use the phone for phonecalls I usually have most of that £10 left at the end of every month and it just keeps accumulating. Last time I checked, I had about £260 of credit. Since you can buy Android apps on the Google Play Store and charge them to your phone credit, this means I can effectively get any Android app I want for free. In addition to this, I get a 10% 'reward' back every three months on my top-ups. So, every three months, I get £3 back from 02. I save these up until I've got £10 or £20 of Rewards credit and then exchange it for Amazon vouchers. So, every now and then, I get some free Amazon stuff too.
I'm 100% convinced that some bean counter at O2 made a colossal cock-up, when coming up with this tariff because it was only available for a short time before disappearing and [as I said] I'm not aware of anything like that being offered by anyone else.
O2 keep trying to persuade me to 'upgrade' to a 'better' tariff, which would offer a bit more data and/or texts, in return for my credit disappearing at the end of every month. Er... no thanks. I'll stick with the one I'm on.
I'm actually surprised they haven't [yet!]force moved me to another tariff and cancelled this one.
[Hope no-one from O2 is reading this. Don't want to give them ideas!]