Best Pay Monthly SIM Only Deals Award 2011

Best Pay Monthly SIM Only Deals Award 2011

Helping you find the best SIM Only contract

Here’s some good news for anyone wondering how on earth to choose the best all-round SIM only deal from the plethora of offerings on the market from practically every mobile network operator. The job has already been done for you in the shape of a SIM Only awards carried out by our editors.

Best all-round SIM Only goes to O2 Simplicity

The as the UK’s leading comparison website for pay monthly SIM Only contracts, we feel obliged to hand select the best SIM Only tariffs every year and as we’re well into 2011, we felt the time is right for yet another round of SIM Only awards. Although various mobile network operators shared the spoils in different categories, O2 have been selected by our expert panel as the winner of the 2011 award for the best all-round SIM only deal. Here’s some details about O2′s winning SIM Only tariff.

• £20.50 per month for 12 months
• 900 minutes of cross network and UK landline talk time.
• Unlimited text messages (to any network operator).
• Option to build your own custom data package for mobile web and email.
• Free connection and delivery.

On a side note, the O2 Simplicity SIM Only offers on a 12 month contract all come with free £50 Amazon gift vouchers for a limited period only.

The award-winning O2 package, therefore, clearly bundles together an impressive collection of features. Some of these features can also be found in the packages offered by O2’s competitor network operators. And it’s for that reason that the hapless consumer can find him or herself completely at a loss when it comes to identifying the best SIM card only provider to suit their particular, personal needs.

Going for best value and not the cheapest pay monthly SIM

At the root of the problem for the individual consumer, of course, is the fact that the cheapest is not necessarily the best. Inevitably, perhaps, SIM only deals and contracts tend to concentrate on price – the considerably lower price, after all, is the principal reason for the recent explosion in SIM only deals on offer in the market. But as the sophistication and scope of the award-winning O2 package helps to illustrate, it is possible to achieve a competitive package price yet still offer an attractive range of features and benefits.

But that still places a heavy onus of responsibility on the consumer in selecting and comparing the myriad features and benefits on offer from the competing mobile network providers. The combination and permutation of so many variable factors makes it almost impossible to match the individual’s needs and demands to whatever the market has to offer.

And this is precisely the service that a competent SIM Only price comparison website delivers. Thanks to the available technology and some painstaking market research, websites such as this are able to take into account the many different features of all of the deals and contracts offered by a host of network providers. It is then possible to group together any particular aspects of the services offered in order to rank individual packages according to their performance or “worth”. By completing separate rankings on any given number of features, it is then possible to compare packages to identify the “best” according to any set of predetermined criteria.

Tags: Best value, Cellular network, Mobile network operator, Mobile phone, O2, SIM Only, Subscriber Identity Module