By ASDA Mobile offers SIM-only deals such as 25GB for £5.99, 60GB for £9.99, and unlimited data for £15.99 per month. You’ll get access to Vodafone’s 5G network.
If you’re looking for a cheap SIM-only deal from a well-known household name, ASDA Mobile currently offers SIM-only plans from only £4.99 per month. You’ll get 4G & 5G coverage from Vodafone.
ASDA’s cheapest SIM-only plans are currently available on a 12-month contract, where you’ll also get 20% of the cost of your plan back in an ASDA Rewards cashpot.
If you’re looking for more flexibility, there’s also a Pay As You Go option, allowing you to get an ASDA Mobile SIM card with no contract and no credit check. There is also a classic Pay As You Go plan, with no need to top-up every month.
In this article, we’ll review the ASDA Mobile network, including the latest deals available and what you’ll get included on your plan. We’ll also look at how you can keep your current phone number when moving to ASDA Mobile.
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| Coverage: | Vodafone coverage (4G & 5G) – check postcode |
| Best Offer: | Get 20% back in an ASDA Rewards Cashpot (ends 7th January 2025) |
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ASDA Mobile Plans
SIM Only Contracts
To get the lowest prices on an ASDA Mobile SIM card, you’ll need to sign up for a Pay Monthly plan (either on a 12-month contract or on a 24-month contract). There are three main benefits to choosing a Pay Monthly plan:
- You’ll get ASDA Mobile’s lowest available prices. For instance, if you take advantage of the exclusive plans below, you’ll be able to get 25GB data for £5.99. For comparison, the equivalent Pay As You Go plan will cost you £15 per month for 25GB data.
- You’ll get 20% of the plan cost back in an ASDA Rewards cashpot. For customers signing up before the 7th January 2025, you’ll be able to get 20% of the cost of the plan back in an ASDA Rewards Cashpot. For instance, if you sign up on ASDA’s £5.99 plan, you’ll get £1.20 put into your Cashpot each month. This brings the effective cost of your plan down to just £4.79 per month.
- You’ll be able to rollover unused data on Pay Monthly. If there’s any unused data, you’ll be able to roll it over into the following month. This is only possible if you’re on a Pay Monthly plan. Data rollover isn’t available on ASDA’s Pay As You Go bundles.
The following table shows ASDA Mobile’s best SIM-only deals:
| Network | Data | Monthly Cost | |
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Offer ends 7th Jan | 5GB data | £4.99 per month 12 month contract | See deal |
Offer ends 7th Jan | 10GB data | £5.50 per month 12 month contract | See deal |
Offer ends 7th Jan | 25GB data | £5.99 per month 12 month contract | See deal |
Offer ends 7th Jan | 60GB data | £9.99 per month 12 month contract | See deal |
Offer ends 7th Jan | Unlimited data 150Mbps max speed | £15.99 per month 12 month contract | See deal |
There’s a range of other 12-month and 24-month plans on the ASDA Mobile website, but these will generally cost you a lot more than the discounted plans shown above.
Pay As You Go Bundles
If you’re looking for more flexibility, ASDA Mobile offers Pay As You Go bundles with no contract and no need for a credit check. All of their Pay As You Go plans now come with 5G coverage and download speeds of up to 150Mbps.
| Network | Data | Monthly Cost | |
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| 3GB data | £5.00 per month No contract | See deal |
| 5GB data | £7.00 per month No contract | See deal |
| 10GB data | £8.00 per month No contract | See deal |
| 15GB data | £10.00 per month No contract | See deal |
| 25GB data | £15.00 per month No contract | See deal |
| 50GB data | £20.00 per month No contract | See deal |
| Unlimited data 150Mbps max speed | £24.00 per month No contract | See deal |
| 100GB data | £25.00 per month No contract | See deal |
If you don’t need data on your plan, there’s also a £4 Talk and Text bundle. This comes with unlimited UK minutes and unlimited UK texts.
Classic Pay As You Go
If you’re looking for a classic Pay As You Go service where there’s no need to top-up every month, this is still available on ASDA Mobile.
To get the classic Pay As You Go service, you’ll need to sign up on one of ASDA’s Pay As You Go plans, switching off the ‘auto-renew’ feature. After the first month, you’ll move to their standard Pay As You Go rates which are 15p per minute, 10p per text, and 10p per MB.
There’s no monthly fee for keeping your SIM card active. However, you’ll need to top up or buy a bundle at least once every 180 days. As the minimum top-up is £5 each time, you’ll be able to keep your ASDA Mobile SIM card active for as little as £10 per year.
ASDA Mobile Features
4G & 5G Coverage From Vodafone
On all of ASDA Mobile’s plans, you’ll have access to both 4G & 5G coverage from Vodafone. This gives you 99% population coverage across the UK, with a maximum download speed of 150Mbps. You’ll also get 4G Calling and Wi-Fi Calling, as long as your handset is compatible.
If you’d like to check the coverage in your area before you sign up for ASDA Mobile, you can do this by entering your postcode on the ASDA Mobile coverage map:
Check ASDA Mobile Coverage (mobile.asda.com) →
In the past, 5G coverage was only available on plans costing £10 per month or more. In addition, some of ASDA Mobile’s unlimited data plans were restricted to a maximum speed of either 2Mbps or 10Mbps. As of December 2024, this is no longer the case. All of the plans will now give you access to 5G coverage with download speeds of up to 150Mbps.
ASDA Rewards Cashpot
If you’re an ASDA Mobile Pay Monthly customer, you’ll get 20% of the cost of your plan put back into an ASDA Rewards Cashpot each month. That’s money you’re able to use on your next shop at ASDA, either online or when you next pop into a store.
The ‘cashback’ that goes into your ASDA Rewards Cashpot can make a significant difference to the ‘effective price’ of your plan. For instance, if you pay £15.99 per month for ASDA’s unlimited data plan, you’ll get £3.19 back in your ASDA Cashpot each month. This can bring the ‘effective cost’ of your plan down to just £12.80 per month.
The 20% Cashpot bonus is only available to customers signing up on a Pay Monthly plan before the 7th January 2025. If you’re on a Pay As You Go plan, or if you sign up after this date, you won’t get the 20% Cashpot bonus.
Inclusive EU Roaming
On ASDA Mobile, you’ll be able to use up to 5GB data per month at no extra cost when you’re travelling in the following 46 European destinations:
- Aland Islands
- Austria
- Azores
- Balearic Islands
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Canary Islands
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- French Guiana
- Germany
- Greece
- Guadeloupe
- Guernsey
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Isle of Man
- Italy
- Jersey
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Madeira
- Malta
- Martinique
- Mayotte
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Reunion
- Romania
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- St. Barthelemy
- Sweden
- Vatican City
In our opinion, this is a nice benefit as lots of major UK mobile networks have now removed inclusive European roaming. However, the fair use limit of 5GB roaming data per month can be fairly restrictive if you’re a heavy mobile user. For comparison, there are other mobile networks that will allow you to use up to 30GB data per month in Europe.
ASDA Mobile Drawbacks
In our opinion, there are a couple of drawbacks to ASDA Mobile:
- ASDA’s Pay As You Go plans are struggling to remain competitive in the market. In the past, ASDA Mobile had some market-leading plans in the contract-free Pay As You Go space. However, this has diminished in recent years, as they’ve re-focussed on 12-month and 24-month SIM-only plans. Nowadays, you’ll get 15GB data for £10 on Pay As You Go, whereas many other networks are offering 20GB or more for the same price.
- The inclusive EU roaming is capped at 5GB per month. Although it’s a nice bonus that you’ll still get inclusive EU roaming, this is capped at just 5GB of roaming data per month. For most people, it should be more than enough (especially for a short trip abroad), but it’s worth keeping an eye on this if you typically use lots of data.
- There’s no eSIM support, so you’ll need to wait for a physical SIM card in the post. At present, ASDA Mobile is yet to support eSIM technology on their plans. For this reason, you’ll need to get a physical SIM card delivered to you in the post. Once you’ve placed your order, it will typically be dispatched on the next working day with Royal Mail 1st Class delivery. For this reason, you can expect it to take around 2 days to arrive.
- Customer rewards are only available on Pay Monthly plans, and can only be used at ASDA. The 20% cashback in an ASDA Rewards Cashpot is only available when you sign up on a Pay Monthly plan. In addition, the rewards can only be used when you’re shopping at ASDA (either in-store or online). Clearly, that’s only useful if you’re living close to an ASDA, or if you occasionally shop with them online. There are no Cashpot rewards if you’re on an ASDA Mobile Pay As You Go plan.
Keeping Your Phone Number
If you’re switching from another network to ASDA Mobile, it’s a straightforward process to keep your current phone number.
Start by ordering your new plan from the ASDA Mobile website. Once you’ve done that, you can get a PAC Code from your old mobile network by texting PAC to 65075.
Once your new ASDA Mobile SIM card has arrived in the post, you’ll be able to submit the PAC Code online through your ASDA Mobile account. Alternatively, you can call ASDA Mobile’s customer service team on 2732 to give them your PAC Code (0808 006 2732 if you’re calling from another network). Once you’ve done this, your phone number transfer will normally take place on the next working day.
For a step-by-step guide on moving your phone number to ASDA Mobile, please select your current mobile network from the drop down menu below:
More Information
For more information about ASDA Mobile’s SIM-only deals, please see the official ASDA Mobile website. You can also read our overview of mobile networks using Vodafone coverage.
gizmo said:
May 2023
ASDA mobile Unlimited data plans are actually limited to 1TB per month, you will get cut off from data and told to wait until you next bill cycle to be able to use data again.
None of the contracts or fair usage policy mention any data limits, quite the opposite, encouraging data tethering/4g,5g modem usage, so this is quite sneaky from them.
Avoid if you are expected to hit over 1TB per month
Mike Thomas said:
I have been using Asda mobile for a short while with the £22 unlimited data bundle in a second hand Alcatel Y800 mobile broadband device and it works great around the house, in fact better than expected, so will be sticking with them for the foreseeable future if the service continues to be this good.
Miles said:
With Asda mobile going up from 4p to 15p for calls and 4p to 10p for texts this confirms what excellent value 1p mobile still is in 2022 (if you can get an EE signal) and does beg the question how much longer will 1p mobile still remain in business, Im prepared to bet either 1p will fold or it will become 10p mobile in the near future.