How to Get Your ISP to Give You a Better Performing SIM Card Deal

I think it’s about time we talked about the humble SIM card. I spend most of my time blogging about the techie advances of smartphones or the different price plans you can get for contract phones – despite the fact that I discovered only last year that concentrating on SIM cards can save you a whole lot of money.

Now that your ISP is avidly targeting the smartphone market, you stand a good chance of being able to get better deals with a little shopping around. One of the simplest (and also most money saving) of which is the chance to opt for a SIM only deal, which means you just get the SIM card from your ISP and forget about the phone.

Clearly if you already have a smartphone that you are happy with, then this is an extremely viable option. The normal price of a contract with your ISP includes not just the service you are getting, but the handheld device on which you enjoy the use of that service. When you already have a smartphone to enjoy the service on, you don’t need to pay for another one in your contracted direct debits (or however it is that you pay for service provision with your ISP).

SIM only offers are dependent on ISP. Some do them, some don’t. If the ISP you want doesn’t do SIM only deals then you can’t take advantage of the tactic I’ve just outlined. Though and that point I would be inclined to go and look for an ISP thatdoes offer SIM only deals and use them instead of the company you were thinking of patronising.

Research doesn’t hurt either. Signing up for any kind of mobile contact these days is a big deal – as both Orange and Vodafone customers have been finding out to their chagrin recently. Orange hiked its prices by over four percent at the start of 2012, while Vodafone refused to pay its taxes – both moves that have left long term contract owners spitting teeth, but ultimately powerless to do anything about.

Clearly you can’t predict the future and find out that your intended contract provider is suddenly going to do something as actively immoral as the actions of Vodafone. But you can be aware that the average length of a contract with an ISP (like everything else, now between a year and a half and two years) binds you in for long enough that a little prior research is a good idea. Find out what the average ISP charge for the kind of service you want is. Find out how good each ISP seems to be, according to the opinion of its customers.

The blogosphere and even the ISP’s own social media pages are great places to look for honest opinion about the quality of its service. Most ISPs follow good social media practice and let consumer comments about its services stand on social media streams – this lets them show how they deal with complaints and issues, which is in itself good advertisement for the quality of provision. Take some time and look around before you make your decision.

Finally: the longer your contract, the better a deal you can expect. This is true of all SIM card dependent services, from ISPs for your smartphone or mobile internet provider, to the service provider you choose to use in a bog standard phone contract. If you sign up for a two year contract, your monthly rate will be less than if you sign up for an 18 month contract, or (where they still exist) a 12 month one.

Beware though – the longer your contract (as noted) the less you can do if your ISP does something that makes you want to look elsewhere. Like putting up its prices. Every extra month on your contract diminishes your ability to retain the power of the consumer, and vote with your feet when things go wrong.

Overall: go for a shorter term SIM only offer. It gives you the freedom to move around if you want, and maintains a low price thanks to your not having to pay for a phone.

Rosette Summers is a Freelance and Staff writer who writes informative & creative articles on SEO and Technology for various tech related companies. Her expertise are in writing articles related to internet providers, SEO, cheapest sim only deals related articles etc.

Top Utilities for your PC

A brand new PC just out of the box always delivers snappy performance, letting you launch programs, process data, and surf the Web with ease. Regrettably, the silky-smooth performance of a new PC eventually fades away and becomes a distant memory as the hard drive undergoes fragmentation, junk files clog the system and unwanted groups of programs start when the PC starts. Slow start up time and lagging performance in unavoidable.

To avoid this several PC users reinstall the operating system, but we all know it is time-consuming. The work doesn’t end just by reinstalling the OS, you have to install the drivers and the programs- surely it isn’t something that anyone would like to carry out on a day by day, weekly, or even monthly basis. The best way to solve it is to use a PC utility.

PC utilities are applications developed to put right the wear and tear that computers go through over time by mending hard drive fragmentation, fixing the registry, and deleting unwanted files. While most of the utilities perform similar functions some stand out by going an extra mile, such as Iolo System Mechanic 10. This utility program not only fixes common problems but comes with a feature called Program Accelerator which neatly arranges all dependent files of a program on the hard drive so that the PC locates them more rapidly and the program starts quickly.

Another notable PC utility program is SlimWare Utilities’ SlimCleaner. What makes it unique is its innovative approach of suggesting optimal settings for a PC. It uses accumulated data from all its users and recommends optimal settings for a PC; users are also rewarded badges for their contribution.

There are several utility applications available in the market; some are free whereas others are paid. Below are listed some of the top PC utility programs available in the market:

  • AVG PC Tuneup 2011-  $29.99 for one license
  • 360Amigo System Speedup Pro- $19.95 per year
  • Comodo System Cleaner- Free
  • Diskeeper 2011 Professional$59.95
  • Iolo System Mechanic 10$49.95
  • Norton Utilities$49.99 for three licenses
  • PC Tools Performance Toolkit 2011- $39.95 for three licenses
  • SlimWare Utilities SlimCleaner- Free
  • Spamfighter Full-Diskfighter1- $9.95 per month

Slow PC Problems

One of the biggest issues that PC users face is finding out the reason why their machines run slowly even if they have great specs. You can without doubt spend more time attempting to fix the issue than slow performance causes to lose and even Windows 7 is not free from this.

The first step to speed up boot time is to disable unwanted programs that run automatically during start up. If you are not sure which program to disable then you can use Autoruns- a free utility from Microsoft. This utility helps to categorize the programs that start when Windows loads and it hides Windows’ start up entries so that you don’t uncheck an entry that must auto start.

Malwares can slow down the performance level of a PC. Even though you may be using a good anti-malware program and firewall sometimes if they are not up to date then malwares may slip by. So ensure that virus definitions and real-time firewall protection are enabled. Once they are updated full a full scan. Also try running a virus scan with a different antivirus program then you normally use. Too many restore points can also slow down your PC. Microsoft offers a hotfix for this problem. Using of a solid-colour background can also affect performance, to improve start time use a photo as a background.

 There are several utilities available that help clean junk data lying on your PC and improve performance. PC Doctor, CCleaner and Tune Up Utilities are some of them. Most of these utility programs clean junk data such as log files, temporary files, restore points and backup files, 0 byte files, memory dumps, cache data etc. Such files put extra load on the system and usually slow it down but the problem may not be always related to software as hardware problems are also known to reduce performance such as a faulty hard-drive power connector.

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