In message , at 19:31:53 on Wed, 24 Jul
2019, Clank remarked:
Roland Perry Wrote in message:
In message , at 09:13:10 on Wed, 24 Jul
2019, Clank remarked:
Please can you provide an example of one of these "hybrid" deals then?
Virgin pay-monthly.

Huh? What's hybrid about that? I've just checked their site,
it's a bog standard contract.
Actually, two contracts, one for
the phone and one for the call plan which is - drumroll - a 30
day contract.

In that case they've changed it. The plan used to be disjoint from
hardware and therefore a pay-in-arrears PAYG monthly rolling thing.

The "hook" (compared with a regular PAYG SIM) was that international
roaming was available, and a very attractive set of prices. Of course,
as time went on that price advantage rotted away... (Until EU roaming
kicked in, but that was much later).

I moved to Giff-Gaff, who have a different kind of hybrid deal which
involves an underlying PAYG-in-Advance where the credit rolls over, but
you need to buy special top-up packages (which you can set up to
auto-topup monthly) for loadsa data/calls/txts.
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Roland Perry