{"id":6407,"date":"2010-11-12T08:34:20","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T08:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6407"},"modified":"2010-11-12T08:34:20","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T08:34:20","slug":"tripling-my-phone-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/11\/tripling-my-phone-credit\/","title":{"rendered":"Tripling my Phone Credit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really should have done this before, but I rarely use my mobile phone and therefore rarely top it up. In fact, most people probably laugh at my old-fashioned phone, but it makes phonecalls when I need it to and I can&#8217;t afford an Apple iPhone so I&#8217;m sticking with it for now.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it&#8217;s on a Tesco Mobile Pay as you Go tarriff and I probably top it up once or twice a year and therefore only spend about \u00a330 a year on it. Calls are then 10p per minute to my favourite numbers and texts 5p each (20p and 10p to other numbers). 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