Just come to the end of a 12 month Simplicity deal with o2 - was paying £16 / month for 600 mins, 300 o2 to 02 mins, unlimited texts and 500mb data. The 12 months ran out earlier this month before the 26 Aug billing date and as one would expect from these rogues they've charged me £26. Phoned them up and they'll credit me with the £10.00 but basically offered me the same price £16 (but with 500 o2 to o2 mins) . So no reward for loyalty and the need to stay with them to get a cheap home broadband deal has now gone with them flogging that operation to Sky.

As a holding position they've agreed to charge me £16 for a monthly Simplicity deal. I'm thinking about 2 Virgin deals :-

30-day contract unlimited minutes, unlimited texts, unlimited data £15 a month

30-day contract 1200 minutes, unlimited texts, 1GB data £12 a month - I think this one would do me

I'm happy with my own phone, don't wan't the latest Samsung Stratochief (I'll buy that next year for a hundred quid), don't want to sign up to 12 and 24 month deals.

Suggestions and advice appreciated