Mike Mitchell wrote:
I am a mobile phone virgin. I do not have a mobile phone. I hate
mobile phones. But now that I am selling the house and still want to
be reachable, I am resigned to getting one, albeit only for a
temporary period. The minute I am in my new house and it's all done
and dusted and the sparkling wine has been opened, I shall take great
pleasure in removing the mobile phone to a suitable flat surface,
whereupon I will take a number 2 sledgehammer to it.

I digress.

This group, I know, is not the right group to be asking this, but I
had a glimpse at the hardcore talk in uk.telecom.mobile and they just
frightened me away. So I'm asking the good, faithful uk.diy crowd what
is the absolute cheapest phone/package I can buy/rent which (a) allows
me to receive incoming calls from landline phones or mobile phones and
(b) can make call to BT landline phones?

Thanks.

Not so much of a virgin now, eh! But I'm not enjoying it.

MM

In that case you probably want a cheap pay as you go phone (you buy top up
cards to credit the phone), argos have a Siemens A55 on orange for £39.95 at
the moment, have a look at orange web site for call costs, but from
recollection their are a choice of PAYG tariffs, but the one which might be
suitable would either be 20ppm at all times or 25ppm for 1st 3 mins of each
day reducing down to 5ppm after that.

Once you've moved you can probably get 20-25 quid on ebay for it
Jon