Changed mobile phone contract

I’ve recently realised my mobile phone has been out of contract for a number of years. I have been paying £28 per month. I don’t really make or answer calls, I mainly call my wife about once a day.

I do use it for email, texts and internet browsing, I didn’t want to contact the supplier as it causes me anxiety and I knew the ‘hard sell’ would happen to try and keep my custom. There was no option on their site to cancel a contract without phoning them, so that was never going to happen.

OFCOM has changed the rules, you can text any supplier to 65075 with just the word PAC, the supplier has to text straight back with your PAC code, it’s a migration code to keep your current phone number.

I’ve now ordered a new SIM card from a comparison site, so still no actual contact with a company.

My new contract is still with one of the main companies and £8 per month for unlimited calls, texts and 50gb of data, also included roaming abroad and phone will  become 5g as already capable.

That’s a one month rolling contract, I’ve done a 12 month, so got a bonus of a £35 Amazon voucher and will pay £4 for the first 3 months and then £8 per month. That equates to £4.09 per month over the contract using the incentives. .

When the Sim arrives I only have to text my PAC code to the  new supplier.

I  also had been paying my son’s phone at the same price and my wife realised she was paying the same for hers, we have gone from £84 per month to £12 for the next 3 months.

I don’t know if this helps anyone else but the new rules took all the stress out of changing contract.