In message , at 19:09:38 on Sat, 20 Jul
2019, Anna Noyd-Dryver remarked:
You can have one-month rolling contracts, say £10 a month.
Some operators may call it PAYG but it's still a contract as far as I'm
concerned and I wouldn't touch one with a very long pole.

The difference between 30-day contract, and pay as you go, is very
simple - with PAYG you pay in advance, with the contract you pay
in arrears. (For the calls at least, if not the standing charge
- although these days most calls are covered by the standing
charge anyway so it does become slightly harder to discern the
difference.)

Contract takes its monthly payment automatically until you tell them
otherwise, PAYG requires you to specifically make the payment, surely?
(I’ve never had a payg phone so I can’t be sure)

Apart, of course, from auto-topup PAYG schemes. But I don't count those
as separate class of subscription, any more than an auto-topup Oyster is
a season ticket.
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Roland Perry