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Sky Mobile review: What do you get?

In a world where some networks offer a bewildering range of different plans with different contract lengths and features, Sky keeps things nice and simple, with all plans now including unlimited minutes and texts. SIM-only plans start from a cheap £5 for 100MB deal and go through some decent mid-range options, delivering 25GB for £16 or 40GB for £20. Sky also now offers an Unlimited plan, at £40 a month. Some of these plans are comparatively expensive – you can get Unlimited data for under £20 elsewhere – but Sky also has some tempting discounts. The 40GB deal is currently £12 per month for the first year, while the £30 100GB plan is currently £18.

Sky Mobile also sells phones with contracts, but with its own distinctive approach. You buy your device on a 24-month or 36-month contract, while paying for a data plan on top. You can then swap to a new phone and contract after either 12 or 24 months, without paying any early upgrade charge.

This can make Sky Mobile a good choice for a new smartphone, but you have to watch the contract term. For example, buy an iPhone 15 on a 36-month contract and you’ll only spend £23/mth on the iPhone and between £5 and £25 a month for your calls, texts and data. However, once the first 24 months are up, you’ll still have to spend £21/mth repaying the remainder of the phone contract. The £807 total purchase price is only £8 more than Apple charges. Sky is effectively giving you an interest-free loan, but it’s still worth comparing total costs with other networks to make sure you couldn’t cut a better deal elsewhere.

Sky Mobile isn’t usually the cheapest option out there for any given data allowance, but customers still feel they’re getting good value for money. More than 90% of users told our Mobile Network Awards survey that they were satisfied with the value of their package, while only 8% were actively dissatisfied. Those figures aren’t quite good enough to put Sky Mobile in contention for our Value award, but they do place it ahead of everyone bar Tesco Mobile and the no-frills networks on this front.