Britain's best value mobile deals unveiled as TalkTalk Mobile launches
The company which revolutionised the phone and broadband market is set to do it again, this time with smartphones.
TalkTalk Mobile launches today and it promises Britain’s very best smartphone deals.
Available exclusively to TalkTalk customers, TalkTalk Mobile will offer simplicity, range and great value plans – all handsets will be completely free with plans starting from £5 a month.
TalkTalk has partnered with Vodafone to bring mobile services to customers including a range of SIM only plans and now handsets. Tristia Clarke, Commercial Director of TalkTalk said, “If you look at phone and broadband packages, they’re cheaper now than they were five years ago. TalkTalk led the way in bringing better value to the market and we’re doing it again with our mobile offers, saving customers even more.”
TalkTalk Mobile has stripped out all the unnecessary costs, which are passed on to consumers in their monthly bills, in order to offer the best value to its customers. Three plans are available - Small, Medium and Large with different prices depending on the choice of handset.*
Customers can buy online or over the phone with those buying online getting double the data allowance.
This simplicity coupled with low running costs means that TalkTalk can now offer the most popular handsets at hugely competitive prices ranging from basic feature phones to high end smartphones.
“We want to do in mobile what we did in broadband,” said Tristia Clarke “and that’s to bring greater competition and choice and offer the best value to our customers.”
TalkTalk families are already £154 a year better off than they were with BT. Now, with TalkTalk Mobile they’ll be better off still. Not only will their monthly bills be lower, they’re less likely to eat up their call allowance because calls between all TalkTalk mobiles in the household and from TalkTalk mobiles to the TalkTalk home phone landline are free.
TalkTalk Mobile will also help customers stay in control by sending text alerts when 80 per cent of their monthly allowances have been reached and customers who buy online will get even better value as they get double the data allowance.
TalkTalk Mobile Data plans
| Small | Medium | Large | |
| Inclusive minutes | 100 | 300 | 1000 |
| Inclusive texts | 250 | 3000 | 3000 |
| Data allowance | 100MB | 500MB | 2GB |
| Sign Up online & Double your data | 200MB | 1GB | 4GB |
| Contract length | 24 months | 24 months | 24 months |
All TalkTalk packages come with built in savings features e.g. unlimited family calls, free voicemail, free calls to customer care and free text alerts.
*Price Comparison Table
| Phone | TalkTalk | O2 | T-Mobile | Orange | Vodafone | Virgin | Tesco | Talkmobile |
| Samsung Galaxy Y | £5 | £13.50 | N/A | N/A | £10.50 | £13 | £10 | £12 |
| BlackBerry 9320 | £10 | £13.50 | £15.50 | £10.50 | £13 | £15 | £15 | £12.99 |
| HTC One X | £25 | £39 | £41 | £36 | £36 | £33 | £30 | £30 |
| HTC Desire C | £10 | £13.50 | £15.50 | £15.50 | £15.50 | £19 | £15 | £15 |
| Samsung Galaxy S III | £25 | £44 | £36 | £41 | £36 | £33 | £40 | N/A |
| £19 upfront | £99 upfront |
*All handsets listed are available on TalkTalk’s Small Plan (100 mins, 250 texts, 200 MB data) from £5 per month.
Price comparisons taken from operator websites on 14th August 2012