"Mike Mitchell" wrote in message
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Even that doesn't sound cheap to me. What would the phone charges be,
roughly? Does one pay someone else for the usage? It's all so bloody
complicated!

You really are a mobile phone virgin aren't you?? £40 IS a bargain. Just
to give you an example, my Nokia 6610 cost £29.99 on a £28 per month
contract. The phone itself probably costs around £200 to buy, but basically
what mobile phone companies do is virtually give you the phone on the
expectation that you will love it, use it loads and they get there money
back from the calls you make. Now if you are disciplined and only really
use it for incoming calls, you basically have a very cheap mobile phone.
You wont find much cheaper than £29.99 for a PAYG