GiffGaff have announced that they are increasing their Per Megabyte data charge from 5p to 10p. Just be aware if your tracker is data enabled that your Pay and Go balance will deplete faster than normal. A solution is to activate the auto-top up from your GiffGaff account.
Ouch! Doubling their data tariff costs! Useful to know as I was looking at a MoniMoto instead of paying for another year on my Biketrac but I decided to just stay with Biketrac
What is the reason they are giving for increasing costs so much? Or is this a way to capitalise on the confusion Brexit is causing?
No clear reason other than trying to get P&G customers to sign up to paid Goodybags. https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.p...-mobile-data-allowances-hikes-payg-price.html It is no great deal for myself as my tracker only uses about 1gb data a month. Just means my credit will last half as long.
Brexit? Must everything be todo with Brexit? More likely that there are no good competitors in this area. There is 1p mobile, but you have to top there by at least £10 every 3 months.
It’s as I suspected (as I work for a Telco) they are trying to rebalance the customer base to get them onto PAYM plans and get revenue and reduce churn (which is when a customer moves to another network). However the bigger issue is that trackers really fit more into an IOT type application, so they need coverage but they don’t need the data speeds of 4G, 5G and would operate fine on the type of service a smart meter uses. Bike trac will have the power to negotiate a specific tariff for their products but if you are buying your own SIM To put in a device you won’t get that. also, be careful with your data sizes, I’d be bloody surprised if the tracker is using a Gigabyte (GB) of data a month, a Gigabit perhaps, or 100MB.
I wonder how giffgaff calculate it. If the 1Mb resets each day ... so if you use 200bytes a day you get charged a whole Mb?
Interesting, I don’t think that’s the raw data use though, it’s that they are rating anything over 0.1MB as a MB, which is a bit cheeky! Rather than your total overall use. Tbf I don’t know if they are the only operators that do this
Usually, the cost is per mb or part mb so if you use less than 1mb it is rounded up to the nearest whole mb. 0.7 becomes 1 and 6.2 becomes 7 for billing purposes. Cash back credit cards usually round the purchase price down so £6.99 becomes £6. Looks like an industry standard. Andy
