Mobile phone bundles

Mobile phone bundles in depth

Mobile phone bundles are a great way to get more for your money when you're signing up for a new mobile phone deal. Maybe you text a lot, or you want to use your phone abroad more than most people? Well, the good news is that there's a mobile phone bundle for almost every kind of user.

What is a mobile phone bundle?

A mobile phone bundle can simply be a package of extras you can add on to either your Pay As You Go or Pay Monthly mobile phone tariff. Mobile bundles are a really good way to make sure you get a mobile phone deal that's exactly right for you. These extras that you add to a package are sometimes described as bolt-ons.

The term mobile phone bundles can also refer to a mobile phone deal or offer that also gives you something else, for example, a mobile phone and mobile broadband bundle.

Do all mobile phone networks offer mobile bundles?

You will find that whilst all mobile phone networks offer mobile phone bundles as part of their mobile deals and offers, not all mobile phone networks will refer to these extras or special packages as mobile phone bundles.

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Call and text bundles

For the more chatty among us who love to use our phones to call and text frequently, most network providers offer great additional talk time and text bundles that can really boost our monthly call and text allowances without breaking the bank.

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Virgin offers some great bundles as add-ons for their pay as you go customers. The bundles cover extra texts, minutes, minutes & texts, and texts & pictures.

For Virgin customers, it's as simple as texting 'buy' plus the name of the bundle they want to a dedicated number.

O2 does not use the term bundle to refer to added extras, if you are signing up to an O2 package you will be able to add bolt-ons to your mobile phone deal.

O2's bolts-on’s cost £7.50 per month each and include:

• Unlimited O2 to O2 calls and texts.
• Unlimited texts
• Unlimited web
• Unlimited texts and web
• Unlimited weekend calls
• Unlimited landline calls
• Unlimited Wi-Fi
• Free international calls

Tesco mobile also offers super-cheap call and text bundles. Tesco customers can buy as many bundles as they want to boost their Pay As You Go package deals simply by calling a freephone number from their Tesco mobile.

Data bundles

If you love to make the most of all the multimedia technology in your mobile, you can sign up for a data bundle from your mobile phone network provider and make sure you can download and share photos, music and videos on your phone for a fantastic price.

Previously, a number of networks featured unlimited data. However, a surge in demand on mobile internet bandwidth means that the highest allowances these days on most networks are around 1GB per month. However, Three currently offers All-you-can-eat-data on a number of its pay as you go and pay monthly mobile phone tariffs, making it still possible to have truly unfettered access to the web.

International bundles

Travel bundles for your mobile phone include international talk time and texts. Extra features may include a favourite country option which gives you cheap talk time for calling abroad. Some carriers even let you pick up to five countries for this service.

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