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@The Wee Bear might be worth looking at cuz you keep running out!
Yes great value for data jmngonline, but for 5G speed tests it's no good as it's capped at 180 megs, that's why I'm with Talkmobile as it's unrestricted. :)
 
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Its their last roll of the dice to make it an atractive buy for the Private Equity co.

Sheer numbers to contend with. After the takeover, I doubt they will support such offerings. On the contrary, I expect price rises to recoup the costs of this Lebara acquisition.

One more will bite the dust in 7 months.

On another note, if MVNOs can offer such crazy deals and still be profitable, doesnt it raise the question of how much the MNOs have been ripping us off over the years and years? (esp VodaCON) ?
 
If Lebara keep the ongoing pricing and EU roaming I'd still stay at the current full prices. They are competitive enough, especially at the lower end.

But that's less likely to be the private equity way. I'd expect the intro offers to disappear especially for people cycling numbers as there's less need to try to show new customer acquisition (which people doing porting still show as...) or growth.

Worrying time for UK mobile really especially with Three-Vodafone merger and investors pushing for Curry's to potentially sell iD as well. And a ripe time to kill off EU roaming too. That's a bigger death nail for me than the pricing but not sure how many other customers are in the same mind. TalkMobile changed their mind which was positive but if it's yield not new customers who knows...

Which isn’t proven to be them, but ok.
It definitely was. People used disposable cards and they were the only details that leaked.
 
On another note, if MVNOs can offer such crazy deals and still be profitable, doesnt it raise the question of how much the MNOs have been ripping us off over the years and years? (esp VodaCON) ?
Absolutely, operators will try to charge as much as possible under the circumstances. The nature of their business dictates they should make as much money as possible. The only 2 things that can keep prices from going ridiculous are 1) competition and 2) regulation.

I don't think there's much regulation going on, so competition it is.

Guess what will get significantly diminished with the Three/Vodafone merger, btw? :)
 
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It definitely was. People used disposable cards and they were the only details that leaked.
I think disposable cards are not single-use, single-time, unique numbers like computing uuids, they are used from a limited pool of visa/mastercard entries.
I used "disposable" cards in the past from TransferWise and had nothing but problems with them, random charges from USA and so on.
 
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Absolutely, operators will try to charge as much as possible under the circumstances. The nature of their business dictates they should make as much money as possible. The only 2 things that can keep prices going ridiculous are 1) competition and 2) regulation.

I don't think there's much regulation going on, so competition it is.

Guess what will get significantly diminished with the Three/Vodafone merger, btw? :)
re 'regulation', maybe things will change now going fwd since/post the last elections? ;)
 
Lebara are now offering 50GB for the same price :love:

At this point I'm tempted to switch back to Lebara because It's so much cheaper than EE mvno's.
that 35GB deal for £1.25 for 7 mths was previously £1.90 around the 17th of July for 6 mths and I got it but havent activated the SIM yet, should I just let them refund me my £1.90 after a mth of none-activation and get this 50GB on for £1.25 for 7 mths?

hmmmm, choices (the bane of modern life) :unsure:
 
Which isn’t proven to be them, but ok.

Even if it’s somewhere in their payment process or a third party company that they use, it’s still ‘them’ to the people affected because that’s who we have (had) the relationship with. They are responsible for the end-to-end process and providing users with services.
 
Even if it’s somewhere in their payment process or a third party company that they use, it’s still ‘them’ to the people affected because that’s who we have (had) the relationship with. They are responsible for the end-to-end process and providing users with services.
indeed, perception comes to the fore re thoughts, when fact are scarce/scanty or not forthcoming/withheld :)
 
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that 35GB deal for £1.25 for 7 mths was previously £1.90 around the 17th of July for 6 mths and I got it but havent activated the SIM yet, should I just let them refund me my £1.90 after a mth of none-activation and get this 50GB on for £1.25 for 7 mths?

hmmmm, choices (the bane of modern life) :unsure:
Go for it, you can now even order these offers on the same account.
1723562697378.webp

I'm going to try Lebara as my main network again, but Vodafone only have weak B20 in places where EE have 5G.
 
Its their last roll of the dice to make it an atractive buy for the Private Equity co.

Sheer numbers to contend with. After the takeover, I doubt they will support such offerings. On the contrary, I expect price rises to recoup the costs of this Lebara acquisition.

One more will bite the dust in 7 months.

On another note, if MVNOs can offer such crazy deals and still be profitable, doesnt it raise the question of how much the MNOs have been ripping us off over the years and years? (esp VodaCON) ?
You’ll find that you can actually get some pretty good deals on Vodafone via CS as an existing customer.
 
Even if it’s somewhere in their payment process or a third party company that they use, it’s still ‘them’ to the people affected because that’s who we have (had) the relationship with. They are responsible for the end-to-end process and providing users with services.
Only assumed, not proven.

That’s part of the problem with make believe and hearsay.

Until Lyca come out and say something, or someone has hard evidence, it’s innocent until proven guilt I’m afraid.
 
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