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A new mobile reseller has arrived in the UK, with The People’s Operator (TPO) selling some feel-good calling plans that donate profits and a share of customer spending to worthy causes and charities.
TPO will give 25 per cent of its profits to charity (assuming it keeps going long enough to ever make any), and is also siphoning off 10 per cent of all the money its users spend on call, text and data top-ups to distribute in the same worthy manner.
The network’s list of PAYG prices isn’t too bad, offering UK calls for 12.5p a minute and free calls to other TPO users, but you’d better be feeling very charitable if you plan on using a lot of mobile data, as that doesn’t come with any free initial allowance and TPO will charge you at 12.5p per megabyte from the off.
Although once your SIM’s activated, extra data bundles can be had at around £4 for 100MB, with additional chunks of calling minutes and texts also available. [TPO]
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Is this a joke? They will fail. £4 for 100MB
Hmm…surely Tesco or Asda if you want cheap PAYG text and calls. And GiffGaff or 3 if you want data.
Other than the charity side…does not compute.
Those Data rates look worse than EE’s
Isn’t this another attempt at what GiffGaff are doing?
Sounds like another commie plot to take over our country…dag nabit…
500MB for only £17.50 !!!!!!
also,this network doesn’t have an entry on syniverse MNP as far as I can tell, so it is a little baffling how they may be set up..shall report back when I have figured this out
well, it appears that their ‘livechat|liveperson’ support is manned by bots.
however they use ‘the largest operator in the UK’ which I assume to be EE
also they appear not to have a unique MNP entry so would be an in-house offshoot of said network.
in addition, their web support are about as useful as a chocolate teapot, ask a question and get ‘Please email your queries to help@thepeoplesoperator.com‘
I shall have to do more sniffing around or this will bug me too much. damn it all!
“however they use ‘the largest operator in the UK’ which I assume to be EE” – no it just means that they have “Big Dave” manning their switchboard.
haha, winning!
Yeeeah… I think I’ll stick to a proper provider and give 10% of what I save on tariff to charity instead.
(except I won’t. But I’ll feel good thinking about it.)
What is the point of this network? Some people have clearly put some effort into the launch, but why? Mediocre tariffs, shoddy data offerings – it’s like going ten years back in time.
Annoying (and misleading) name.
FAIL