The advent of the pay as you go phone dates back to the early nineteen nineties when mobile or cell phones were growing in popularity. Contract phones are just as popular as pre paid phones but demographics show that customers much prefer adding credit to their phone as and when they need credit. Many individuals will agree that if they once where contract phone users switching over to a prepaid phone was the best decision they could have made as it works for them and saves them money at the end of the day.



Research shows that the top five pay as you go phone models are the samsung tocco, the nokia 5310, the samsung j700 , motorola w156 and the nokia 2610. The major networks namely t- mobile , orange and o2 all offer attractive rates to individuals where phone payments are concerned. One should also mention that the features of PAYG phones have to include being charged only for what you use. In essence once your credit is finished you need not worry about being charged for over spending or what your bill will be at the end of the month. In a way it keeps you in check, making you either budget or opting to use your credit very carefully. One may also find that one pays only for call charges and not have to worry about the monthly fees that are often applied to contract phones. Additionally many individuals are unaware that such phones have the feature of making emergency calls and texting to certain numbers for free. Another bonus with such phones would have to be not needing to have a credit card to make your payments or to get the phone plan.

Instead what you do is simply top up by using a phone card where you can add as little as five pounds of credit to your phone. Depending on how often you call out, it can last really long and especially for t- mobile users where the mates rates are applicable. The latest promotional offer from t- mobile includes getting a free reward everytime you add credit to your phone. Also when one texts STRETCH to 441 to opt in where when you top up ten pounds Monday to Friday one is credited with ten pounds free credit on the weekend. One also receives five free call me back texts per month to have friends return your call when out of credit.

Like T- mobile, Orange another network offers quite an attractive package as well. Their offer is based primarily on what they term 'animal packages', each of which will be examined briefly. The dolphin package offers the customer free texts to any network. Topping up ten pounds gets you 300 free text messages, twenty pounds gets you 600 free texts and thirty pounds gets you unlimited free text messages. The canary package offers free evening and weekend calls, the racoon offers fifteen pence to any network and ten pence texts to any network anytime. Finally the camel package offers calls abroad from five pence, calls to fifty countries from just five pence per minute, twenty pence calls and ten pence texts to any network in the United Kingdom at any time.

All in all one must agree that phones where you pay as you go are suitable or popular with teenagers and for adults opting to cut costs as well as those who use their mobile phones alot less and are unable to see the feasibility in having a contract phone when having a pay as you go is much cheaper. Before deciding to switch to a top up phone it is advisable to do the necessary research to determine which package or network best meets your needs.