Where can I get a phone sim from

[christopher]

Vodafone - Free PAYG Sim

Terms (PAYG Airtime)
Terms (Simply Price Plan)

The important bits, taken from 'Terms (PAYG Airtime)' linked above:

"6 Suspension, disconnection and ending the agreement

6a We can suspend (in other words bar), restrict or stop providing the services (all or part of them) in the following circumstances.

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3 You choose not to use the service for 180 days. Using this service means making any chargeable outbound calls (but not calls to 191, see your price plan for charges) or topping up your account.

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6b If we suspend the mobile phone because you have chosen not to use the services (as defined in 6a3 above) for 180 days, we will, if you ask within 90 days of the suspension, reconnect the services and make available any previous credit held on your account at the time of the suspension. If you have not kept to this agreement or not used the services for 270 days, and we disconnect your mobile equipment, you will lose any credit held on your account."

[timwilky]

Originally Posted by vodaphone

Voice and text packs are available on the Vodafone Simply Price Plan. You can have one voice pack and one text pack running at the same time on the Vodafone Simply Price Plan. Each pack runs for 30 days or until you have used your minutes or messages, whichever is first. Any unused minutes and messages at the end of the 30 day period will be lost. If you buy more than one of each pack at the same time they’ll run one after the other such that the second pack starts as soon as the first pack is finished.
Vodafone packs are available for standard calls (Vodafone mobiles, other UK mobiles or landlines with numbers beginning 01, 02 and 03) made within the United Kingdom (excluding Isle of Man and the Channel Islands). We charge each call by the second and round it up to the next pence. If your call is part of your voice pack, there are no minimum call charges. Only standard texts can be set against your text pack. Text messages are deducted from your text pack shortly after it’s sent.

So my reading of this is that if I used vodaphone I would have to buy a top up every month, even if I had not made a single text on the credit

[christopher]

Nope, they are addons. Those terms shall only apply if you were to purchase a voice or text pack. An example of one of these would be the Vodafone Text Pack whereby you pay £5 (upfront) and then you get 70 text messages to use within a 30 day period (as defined in your quote of the terms).

So simply do not purchase a voice or text pack, and it'll use your credit as normal. So as long as you can make a chargeable call once every 180 days you're good to go.

ask at your local petrol station they chuck em in for nothing at the shelf (or what ever texico) is now called garage not too far from me. One of the football lad gets them quite often cos they come with free £10credit on them and he is simply just that cheap.