BillMonitor

Now you can not only see which tariff is best for you, but where you can get it for the cheapest price.  This is possible because we now compare tariffs and handsets from Phones4U and Mobiles.co.uk, bringing the latest release of our mobile price comparison site up to an incredible 6.8 million mobile deals.

These stores often offer free gifts with tariffs, and we’ve included those too. Currently we pick the gift for you based on which provides the highest straight-up monetary value. In our next update, we’ll be providing a choice of gifts, so if you’re set on that free Playstation 3, we’ll be able to help you out.

In addition to the new deals, we’ve sped up the site significantly. We hope that you’ll notice the difference! We’ve also been working hard under the hood to prepare the system for even more tariffs. The mobile market is an incredibly complicated place, and we’re just getting started!

We’ve just updated the plans in the comparison engine to include some interesting new mobile deals. Orange have introduced 36 month (!) contracts. Whilst these may seem like good value – as little as £4.89 per month including a mobile – being locked into a 3 year contract could prove costly. The deals have quite small allowances (as low as 50 minutes) and the cost of calls outside that allowance is very high (20p/min) so if you want to call more than a little between now and 2012 you’ll be paying though the nose. On the other hand this deal sounds great for my gran, who needs a phone for emergencies but hates the hassle of topping up a pay-as-you-go phone.

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Vodafone’s Summer promo started yesterday, so now Vodafone customers can enjoy roaming phone calls at no extra cost, as long as they’re on Passport. We had a think about how to model this in our system and we decided that if we removed the 75p cost per call, you’d get stung when September came along and the cost was added again. Therefore, the prices shown in BillMonitor continue to reflect the full cost.

This promotion is an excellent deal for the Summer, and we hope that lots of our customers can save money with it, but we don’t want you to sign up for a contract that’s going to work out more expensive for you in the long run.