Mobile phone users don’t know how many texts or minutes they use each month
Mobile phone users don’t know how many texts or minutes they use each month
A recent study by comparison website Moneysupermarket.com has revealed that Brits waste over £8 billion on additional texts and minutes in the following ways;
- 50 per cent of mobile phone users in the UK don’t know how many texts or minutes they use every month.
- 20 per cent of mobile phone users in the UK, more often than not, get a bigger phone bill than they were expecting.
This rakes in an astonishing £8.45 billion per year for the British mobile phone industry alone and it’s simply because people are on the wrong mobile phone tariff!
On average we use 23 voice minutes and 23 texts over our inclusive allowances each month. Basically it costs us around £130 each per year. I must admit I was running my mobile phone bill up every month like this, typically I would spend £5 to £10 over every month. It wasn’t ever really a lot of minutes or texts that I would over use but the mobile phone companes charge a higher rate per minute and per text if you go over your monthly inclusive allowance. Then you realise when your bills arrive.
I played around with my tariff, it was a Vodafone SIM card so I could change the tariff and pricing structure online after the first 3 months. This seemed to keep the bills lower but I’d usually end up going over the inclusive mintues and texts anyway.
Now I use o2 Simplicity. You buy a SIM card and pay a set fee per month for a set amount of minutes and texts. I’m paying £25 per month and get 600 voice minutes and 1000 texts. The good thing with o2 Simplicity is that you’re not tied into an 18 month contract. If I decide I don’t like my deal all I have to do is give 1 month written notice and o2 cancel the SIM card, easy!