T-Mobile UK offering free internet on prepaid cards

[petkow]

I don't know if this is much good for members here who tend to be occasional visitors to the UK, but I saw this posted elsewhere. If you are planning a trip in 2 consecutive months, or if your stay is over a month this could be quite interesting! It is yet another one of the many types of offers to retain the many unloyal UK prepaid customers who are now really spoilt for choice!

In a nut shell, if you pick up one of their SIM packs this month in a store, or order one for FREE online, and buy £10 of prepaid credit, then you will also get free SMS and Internet access the following month. As far as I can see, this is for internet used on the phone itself (not to be used in a 3G Modem), and cannot be used for VoIP calls. Internet is also limited to 40MB/day, but if you use more you will only be throttled and not charged! Of course you can still use the £10 for calls and SMS as normal... such as for calling internationally at 3p/min via Yourcallworld.

Connect a new SIM card that you've got (either with or without a phone) from one of our stores, sales team or website to T-Mobile pay as you go from 1 November 2009 to 31 January 2010 and you'll automatically be opted into our Monthly Text and Internet Reward.

Successfully top up £10 in a calendar month and we'll give you unlimited free texts and internet on your phone to use during the next month. We'll send you a text to let you know you've earned the reward.

Providing you have stayed a member of the reward throughout the month we'll add your free texts and internet to your account at one minute in the morning on the first day of the next month. You then have that whole month to use them in the UK. Use your free texts to text customers of any UK mobile network. For internet on your phone you'll need a compatible phone and internet coverage, check it at t-mobile.co.uk/streetcheck. Remember that you can't use your phone as a modem or use the internet for peer-to-peer file sharing, instant messaging (except if you have a Sidekick) or making internet phone calls.

This reward comes with an internet fair use policy of 40MB a day. We'll monitor how much you send and receive each calendar month so that we can protect our network for all our customers. If you use more than your fair use policy amount, we won't charge you any more, but we may restrict how you can use internet on your phone, depending on how often you go over your amount and by how much.

From: Free Pay As You Go Sim Cards with T-Mobile - Get a free SIM card on PAYG (Click on the banner on the RHS)