Saturday Aug 25th: Phone!

In Toronto, I was on a prepaid plan.  I have had my Fido Sony Ericsson since 2004.  I paid $10, maybe $15 a month for a prepaid voucher?  Got 30 minutes with $10. 

Here, there are half a dozen major phone companies.  Phones cost as little as £10 and you can get a Pay-as-you-Go SIM for £10 as well and away you go with 100 free minutes, or 300 free texts and 500MB of data in addition to your 25p a minute and 15p text plan.  Incoming calls are always free and the outgoing rate is more or less the same to call phones all over the UK ("long-distance" calling means calling outside the country). 

I wanted something I could navigate a new city and new social contacts what with a completely new social circle and new workplace, so after some comparison I bought a Samsung Galaxy GT-S530.  £50 ($75) including tax seemed like a pretty good deal, eh?  No contract.  I got a £10 O₂ SIM that gives me 300 free texts and 500MB free data.  Outgoing minutes will be deducted from that £10 at 25p a minute.  Not bad.  Now I'm an Android user... Ack!
 

The downside of these cheap plans is that every 11-year old has a phone and they are a big problem in school!