In my case you are right, I barely use any data. I'm on a 100Gb plan which rolls over each month (for one month only) and generally I start the new month with over 195Gb of data. It only costs me £8 a month so seemed worth it at the time, as you never know. For me, that's about as much as I want to spend, and many at that price will cover my needs, so I tend to go for the best I can at that moment in time, as deals change frequently.
I did use the phone as a hot spot in Portugal to stream some telly when the local WiFi was struggling a bit, but that's unusual. Also some public WiFi isn't usable - Faro airport WiFi was hopeless the other day, probably just needed a router reboot.
In terms of the best SIM only deal, if you want to contract direct with the provider I find ID or Plusnet are generally fairly hard to beat, and having used both and been happy they are my "go to" providers. Both offer monthly deals so if you don't like it for some reason or a much better deal comes along you can easily bail out.
Lebara and Smarty also seem to be fairly cheap but I have no experience of them.
If you don't mind the faff of claiming cashbacks every few months the comparison sites can often offer you a good deal for any of the major providers, but generally either 12 or 24 months only. My 100Gb is with mobiles.co.uk on a Vodafone plan, so I pay Vodafone £16 pm but claim back (I think) £24 every three months (which isn't so difficult) but when it reaches the end of it's term I'll need to find another one otherwise I'll just continue paying Vodafone but get nothing back from mobiles.co.uk.
I am putting SWMBO on a monthly deal with ID - £8 for 16Gb incl EU roaming, which is important to us.
If you are planning to use your phone abroad you would want to check wither EU roaming is included - e.g. with Vodafone some plans have it and some don't. I think O2 are charging £2 a day for it.
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Today - Vodafone new
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