offers do come, but i don't recall whether they were particularly good around black friday. i'd cancel and switch to a flexible/payg plan so you can switch once a good deal comes.
yes, usually every company has compelling deals around Black Friday. Last BF, there were some really compelling deals. Since then some have reappeared as prices continue to go down and more freebies included. This BF could be a reset and offer even more bonuses or better prices.
I completely forgot, i need to decide this weekend.
Salt offers me unlimited + 4gb roaming for 30/month.
It looked like the best offer (pre blackfriday...) but I checked talktalk mentionned above and it sounds much better 16/month with 5gb roaming and no commitment (or 11/month for 2 years and 1gb roaming)
I think I will cancel salt and take talktalk unless something better pops up at the end of the month.
sunrise will also have black Friday / cyber Monday deals too, it's just not live yet
I took one of these deals in the past, it was 2 years commitment and nothing was cheaper offered during the 2 years so it was a good deal to change around cyber Monday/black Friday
Also, you don't have to wait for your contract to expire "before" changing, you can tell the operator to offer you anyways the package at the advertised price, but start your contract 3 + in the future, and even sign in 2 months, so in all you can commit now, then then start and pay in 5 months. This is valid across all operators, e.g I took a Cybermonday deal around end of November, and didn't actually start it until April
It's still =.95/month more than Lycamobile which has no set-up charge, free sim card, covers all of Europe with phone calls and equivalent data - and piggy-backs Swisscom's network...
I had lyca in the past. I could share my connection and use it as a modem at home but then immediately blew the 10gb limit so i changed for an unlimited one.
I don't really need unlimited now that I have a fiber at home but I also like not to have to worry about limits.
I was a bit confused with Lyca though and I can't remember the issues exactly:
Do I need to top up myself or is it automatic ?
Is it 9.- the 1st month and then 19.- (for the Swiss M package) ? Or is it 9.- forever ? There are 3 prices on the same page it's really confusing.
Also for roaming I could not get it to work: If I switched roaming on in my iphone settings it would not work. I think I read that I had to insert manually the settings to connect to the local network but somehow never managed to get it work properly. How do you do it ?
The 19.- plan (Hello swiss M) must be paid with a credit card through your personal account on the lyca website. You enter your credit card details and check auto-renewal and it is done.
You can't use the top-up balance to pay the plan, you have to pay monthly with a credit card.
Concerning the roaming, here are the steps for an iphone (ios 15.1) :
Settings / Mobile data / Mobile data network. Mobile data / APN : data.lycamobile.ch. LTE Setup (optional) / APN : data.lycamobile.ch. Everything else is blank.
As a reminder, you also have to activate roaming : Settings/Mobile data/Mobile data options/Data Roaming on. I also have Voice & Data set to LTE, not sure if it is important.
Setup tested ok, i am back today from Germany/Austria.