Family phone contracts

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DonkeyApple

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62,567 posts

184 months

Saturday 17th May
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Need a bit of help.

My children currently have Tesco pay as you go sims. I just bought the sims quickly when they first got phones but the set up is a pita as each sim requires its own app to operate rather than being able to be managed from a single app. And recently each app has decided that the sims are new and need activating.

In short, it was never good but has recently become untenable so must be changed.

At the same time, my own deal with BT has been out of contract for years so I can change anytime.

What I am ideally looking for is to move my deal to someone who will allow my children's sims to be on the same app so it's all easy to manage and I can just stick them on sensible monthly contracts that don't require me to do anything.

My understanding was that such options are manifest and typically sold as family deals but can anyone give me some pointers as to which one might be the most idiot proof? I don't want phones, don't want special offers, just a vanilla line rental for multiple phones through one app. Tia

mike9009

8,220 posts

258 months

Saturday 17th May
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I have all our families mobile contracts in the Tesco app. So, just one app to manage them all. From memory there are some discounts to doing this (or benefits)

I cannot remember how I achieved it though. It was pretty easy.

Alickadoo

2,955 posts

38 months

Saturday 17th May
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Yes, but how much is it?

DE1975

503 posts

121 months

Saturday 17th May
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I'm with Smarty and have just the one SIM, but in my Smarty app it says I can add up to 8 additional Sims onto the same account. All additional Sims are at a 10% discount, but they're not expensive to start with. I'm currently paying £6 a month for 12GB a month which more than covers my Android Auto music streaming on my daily commute, and the rest of the time I'm on WiFi anyway

dontlookdown

2,174 posts

108 months

Saturday 17th May
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EE do some decent family deals, or they did last summer when I redid ours. Ca £50 a month for three SIMs on 5G with decent data allowance (10gb?), unlimited calls and texts and European roaming (details from memory so may not be 100% accurate on allowances. Never run out of data or anything else so far).

We do also have EE broadband , which prob made a difference too.

TownIdiot

3,527 posts

14 months

Saturday 17th May
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Vodafone allow this.

Four numbers all in unlimited data and calls on a rolling monthly basis, all managed on my app and paid monthly.

Defcon5

6,393 posts

206 months

Saturday 17th May
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I’m with Sky

Currently have 7 SIMs, costing £60/month for the lot.

Each SIM has its own data allowance but any that’s unused at the end of the month goes into a pot that can subsequently be used by any of the other SIMs.

For example one of the SIMs is free, with a 100mb allowance but I only use it in a mobile router when travelling, so prior to the trip I just send it 20gb or whatever from the pot

Sky use O2s radio network, inc 5G and also support WiFi calling etc.




gus607

965 posts

151 months

Saturday 17th May
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Both mine & my wife's sims are managed together on the Three app no problem.

Alorotom

12,432 posts

202 months

Saturday 17th May
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I’m back with Three

I have 6 lines in my account for my family - each are on the same 30gb SIMO tariff I got via USwitch for £10 per line.

All managed in the single app. Very easy.

Sunday Drive

267 posts

35 months

Sunday 18th May
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EE do family sharing plans, or they used to.

Either way, EE allow multiple lines on one account which would tick the box for you.

GlenMH

5,347 posts

258 months

Sunday 18th May
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Lebara using Voda network do that too. 4 lines all managed in one app for me.

MSE special offers of 79p/month for the first 9 months for 30GB data and u/l minutes/texts incl roaming per sim were a bonus.

BoRED S2upid

20,693 posts

255 months

Sunday 18th May
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We are with EE. 3x £10 pay monthly sim only loads of data free calls etc… nobody ever goes over the £10. They do try and increase it yearly but a quick call and it’s back down to £10.