adrianreeve
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| posted on 30/12/11 at 05:31 PM |
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Does anyone use Giff Gaff?
Hi there, does anyone on the forum have any experience of Giff Gaff? It seems too good be true, but everything I read about it seems to full of
praise! What's it like in terms of coverage and costs? I understand it uses O2, so coverage should be ok, but it looks like for £10 a month, I
can get 600 cross network minutes, 600 texts and unlimited data useage - I pay O2 £36 a month for the same thing!
Thoughts please!
Cheers
Adrian
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mads
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| posted on 30/12/11 at 05:41 PM |
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Rob (Wheels244) does and he was praising it yesterday on a different thread. It does seem to be really good alternative to the mainstream providers
but as you pointed out, using O2's network.
We gain knowledge faster than we do wisdom!
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in
sideways, thoroughly used, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming... "f*ck, what a trip!"
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matt_gsxr
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| posted on 30/12/11 at 05:43 PM |
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was recommended by someone at work and my wife uses it now. Very simple to use just have to buy additional vouchers on-line. Seems to be a good
honest service.
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Wheels244
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| posted on 30/12/11 at 05:43 PM |
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Hi Adrian
I use it and its great - saved me a fortune !
It does use the O2 network.
For £10 a month I get 300 free minutes, unlimited texts and Internet, free GiffGaff to Giffgaff calls. No contract !!
Much better deal than I was getting from O2 - no brainer for me.
HTHs
Rob
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philw
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| posted on 30/12/11 at 05:46 PM |
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Yep, i use it no problems at all, i get the £10 goody bag, it gives me 250 minutes, 0800 numbers are free, unlimited texts and unlimited internet,
i've been with them for a fair few months now, i used to be with orange and top up £20 a month but used to run out of credit about half way
through the month, GiffGaff is the way forward linky
[Edited on [1325267227R0=053131p: by philw]
Must try harder
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gdp66
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| posted on 30/12/11 at 05:52 PM |
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I have put my son on giffgaff.
It not only runs on O2 , I believe it is a part of 02.
Check out companies house
http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/a3ad2b8ccf64e01ef964b65e5d59621b/wcframe?name=accessCompanyInfo
Can't beat the value.
Also, before you go and get a sim. I'm sure someone on here will get one for you and then you both get 5 pound credit I believe.
[Edited on 30/12/11 by gdp66]
[Edited on 30/12/11 by gdp66]
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McLannahan
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| posted on 30/12/11 at 06:21 PM |
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I'm also on it too. Not easy to tether with an iPhone to use the unlimited Internet but if that's not important or relevant...
Easy to do it with most other phones though and 500mb starts at £5, unlimited Internet a £10.
Tech support is forum based mainly but the responses are fast by other members. They get credit themselves for helping others so they're all
pretty keen!
As GDP said, ask one of us for our GiffGaff username and we'll both get £5 of extra credit. My username is as the one on here!
I've been with them a good few months now for my work phone and it's been spot on. Few glitches but forum answered all my questions
quickly and easily.
Cheers
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martylemoo
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| posted on 30/12/11 at 08:19 PM |
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I was paying o2 £35 a month for 600 mins, unlimited texts and data
Threatened to leave to go to GiffGaff and now I pay o2 £7.50 for the same service.
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JoelP
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| posted on 31/12/11 at 09:31 AM |
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What lots of people dont seem to realise is that when you take out a contract on a nice phone, the monthly cost is paying for that phone, but once you
are out of contract you can drop the payments to much less, to just cover airtime. I actually heard a rumour that you can drop the payments after the
first 12 months of a 24 month contract, but didnt look into it because mine is out of contract anyway. I just use a £5 phone with my pay monthly sim,
cos they get battered at work.
However, if giff gaff can be used for tethering, then that is definately the way forward, cos i could then dump my data sim from the laptop.
Beware! Bourettes is binfectious.
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ChrisW
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| posted on 31/12/11 at 11:36 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by JoelP
What lots of people dont seem to realise is that when you take out a contract on a nice phone, the monthly cost is paying for that phone, but once you
are out of contract you can drop the payments to much less, to just cover airtime.
That is indeed true. My iPhone 4S costs me £15.50/month to run for that very reason, and there are cheaper options. That's a Vodafone deal as I
wanted the sure signal box (which is also excellent).
I do have a giffgaff sim for my iPad but I've not got around to using it yet. Just goes to show how little I used the mobile Internet facility
on it as my O2 sim has been deactivated for 3 months now and I've not missed it at all!
Chris
My gaff my rules
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kipper
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| posted on 31/12/11 at 12:47 PM |
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gifgaf?????????
I wish I Knew
what you young uns were talking about, it sounds soooo exciting??????????????
Denis the technophobe.........Happy new year
Where did that go?
<<<<
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wilkingj
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| posted on 31/12/11 at 01:11 PM |
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I've been looking at this for a while.
I pay £5.11 a month (was £5 when Vat was 15.5%) for 50 mins, 50 texts and 500Mb of Internet.
Trouble is I don't even use that much!
GifGaff looks a good deal, I just dont want to double my monthly outgoing for something I don't make full use of at the moment.
Heard good things about G/Gaf from my non LCB friends.
Just my 2d's worth.
1. The point of a journey is not to arrive.
2. Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
Best Regards
Geoff
http://www.v8viento.co.uk
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 31/12/11 at 01:29 PM |
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I've been using Giff Gaff for a while, and my wife and some other family members also moved to it recently. We have both saved a load of money
since calls to other Giff Gaff users are free.
For a PAYG service the data costs are excellent (though used to be even better last year). Giff Gaff does not permit tethering however, though there
are numerous requests on their forum asking them to provide a package to allow this.
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McLannahan
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| posted on 31/12/11 at 01:34 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by MikeRJ
I've been using Giff Gaff for a while, and my wife and some other family members also moved to it recently. We have both saved a load of money
since calls to other Giff Gaff users are free.
For a PAYG service the data costs are excellent (though used to be even better last year). Giff Gaff does not permit tethering however, though there
are numerous requests on their forum asking them to provide a package to allow this.
Mike, tethering is allowed, it's just not supported on the iPhone annoyingly.
http://giffgaff.com/goodybags/1GB-mobile-broadband
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bigdrew
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| posted on 31/12/11 at 02:04 PM |
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Another Giff gaff user here with no complaints. Have also converted a fair few people to it!
I brought a second hand HTC desire which was locked to 02 for not much money and put the sim in.
Seemed like the cheapest way into a decent phone. + I hate the idea of a 2 year contract..
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v8kid
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| posted on 3/1/12 at 10:38 PM |
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So will gift gaff work on an iphone3 previously on O2 without having to unlock it? Do I just put the sim card in and connect to iTunes to initialise
it?
Cheers?
You'd be surprised how quickly the sales people at B&Q try and assist you after ignoring you for the past 15 minutes when you try and start a
chainsaw
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Wheels244
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| posted on 3/1/12 at 10:45 PM |
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Yes, for the 1st bit - GiffGaff uses O2 network, it will even show as O2 on your phone.
I'm not sure about iTunes, the card should work ok without having to do anything with iTunes.
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McLannahan
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| posted on 3/1/12 at 11:19 PM |
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Yes, it'll work fine
Once you've inserted the sim card make sure you're on wireless. Open Safari on the iPhone and type in the address...
Invalid.name/giffgaff
Seems odd but it will work. This will prompt you to download all the settings for the iPhone to work properly on giffgaff ( mms settings, Internet
settings etc..)
You won't need to go onto iTunes, not at least if your phone is up to date. You may want to use iTunes to update it to the latest OS first
though.
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v8kid
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| posted on 4/1/12 at 07:55 AM |
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Excellent info thanks chaps I'm off to buy a goodybag!
Cheers1
You'd be surprised how quickly the sales people at B&Q try and assist you after ignoring you for the past 15 minutes when you try and start a
chainsaw
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 4/1/12 at 08:36 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by McLannahan
quote:
Originally posted by MikeRJ
I've been using Giff Gaff for a while, and my wife and some other family members also moved to it recently. We have both saved a load of money
since calls to other Giff Gaff users are free.
For a PAYG service the data costs are excellent (though used to be even better last year). Giff Gaff does not permit tethering however, though there
are numerous requests on their forum asking them to provide a package to allow this.
Mike, tethering is allowed, it's just not supported on the iPhone annoyingly.
http://giffgaff.com/goodybags/1GB-mobile-broadband
It's only supported if you buy a "Gigabag" which is a data only package. Tethering is not permitted via the standard voice+data
packages.
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McLannahan
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| posted on 4/1/12 at 11:37 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by MikeRJ
quote:
Originally posted by McLannahan
quote:
Originally posted by MikeRJ
I've been using Giff Gaff for a while, and my wife and some other family members also moved to it recently. We have both saved a load of money
since calls to other Giff Gaff users are free.
For a PAYG service the data costs are excellent (though used to be even better last year). Giff Gaff does not permit tethering however, though there
are numerous requests on their forum asking them to provide a package to allow this.
Mike, tethering is allowed, it's just not supported on the iPhone annoyingly.
http://giffgaff.com/goodybags/1GB-mobile-broadband
It's only supported if you buy a "Gigabag" which is a data only package. Tethering is not permitted via the standard voice+data
packages.
That's what I linked to Mike - the data bags...
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Marcus
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| posted on 4/1/12 at 10:38 PM |
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I've been with them for nearly a year now and top up a tenner a month for 250 mins, unlimited texts and internet. It's against the terms
and conditions to tether using the phone. The gigabags are for iPads and the like, not sure if they will work with a phone. I've had no problems
and the coverage is the usual o2 standard, pretty good round here. I regularly connect at over 4Gb...twice my broadband speed  I also have a MiFi
which is about to get unlocked and a giffgaff sim fitted. Can't rate them highly enough.
[Edited on 4/1/12 by Marcus]
Marcus
Because kits are for girls!!
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McLannahan
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| posted on 5/1/12 at 09:50 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Marcus
I've been with them for nearly a year now and top up a tenner a month for 250 mins, unlimited texts and internet. It's against the terms
and conditions to tether using the phone. The gigabags are for iPads and the like, not sure if they will work with a phone. I've had no problems
and the coverage is the usual o2 standard, pretty good round here. I regularly connect at over 4Gb...twice my broadband speed I also have a MiFi
which is about to get unlocked and a giffgaff sim fitted. Can't rate them highly enough.
[Edited on 4/1/12 by Marcus]
I can confirm that the Gigabags DO work with the phone - I'm using one this month in my old iPhone.
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v8kid
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| posted on 5/1/12 at 02:16 PM |
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Just fantastic! Filled in website application yesterday, received sim today, up and working on an iphone 3 first try thanks to advice received
here.
Now how do I get the missus released from her new iphone4s contract she signed last week and keep the phone
By the way the iphone (missus old one) is well over 4 years old and has never missed a beat - it just always worked. Kids have had umpteen unreliable
lookalikes in the same period but have now all changed to iphones.
Cheers!
You'd be surprised how quickly the sales people at B&Q try and assist you after ignoring you for the past 15 minutes when you try and start a
chainsaw
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eddbaz
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| posted on 5/1/12 at 04:02 PM |
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I use giffgaff no problems at all, just wondering about the tethering,it says it is not allowed on the goodybag that i have but is there any way they
can tell if I tether off my phone?
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