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A prepaid mobile device, also known as a pay-as-you-go (PAYG), pay-as-you-talk, pay and go, go-phone, prepay, or burner phone, is a mobile device such as a phone for which credit is purchased in advance of service use. The purchased credit is used to pay for telecommunications services at the point the service is accessed or consumed.
The concept was further developed by Vodafone UK, who in Oct 1997 launched 'Pay as you Talk', packaging a GSM phone with a prepay tariff, and retailing it in new kinds of mass merchandiser retailers such as Woolworths and Argos and one year later into supermarkets such as Tesco (previously mobile phones had only been sold in specialist phone ...
They are usually paid on a monthly basis, and called rental. Call charges: these charges are variable and are used to pay for the cost of the equipment to route a call from the caller's exchange to the recipient's exchange. These call charges can be calculated on a fixed per call basis, a variable basis depending on the time or distance of the ...
The boss of Vodafone has insisted the telecom company's merger with rival Three - which has finally been approved by the regulator - will not result in higher prices. The £16.5bn tie-up will ...
Households can now get a broadband package for £12 a month and small businesses can get free broadband for a year.
Orange, like other mobile networks, offered an "Internet Everywhere" tariff on pay-as-you-go, pay monthly and business plans. The tariffs names for pay monthly were aligned with the animals' theme in May 2010 when Orange offered both Dolphin and Raccoon plans for internet use available on both 1 month and 12-month contracts.
Vodafone and Three UK have pledged to cap their lowest-cost mobile plans at £10 for two years, as the companies hope to convince the UK’s competition watchdog to approve their £15 billion merger.
Vodafone: 15 December 2016 [38] Ceased operations. LIFE Mobile: EE: 29 November 2016 [39] Acquired by Plusnet. Mobile by Sainsbury's: Vodafone: 15 January 2016 [40] Ceased operations. Our Telecom EE: 16 August 2016 [41] Dissolved. Ovivo Mobile: Vodafone: 19 March 2014 [42] Ceased operations. PG Mobile Three: 2016 [43] Ceased operations. Plusnet ...