Need a no credit check phone?

If you’ve recently moved house and you haven’t had a BT telephone line in the last few years, you will probably find BT want to run a credit check on you before they switch the phone line on.  BT are sick of people running off with not paying bills, so they want your address history to find out if you have any bad credit.

The good news is that even though the lines are run and maintained by BT there are other providers/billing companies that can switch your BT line on for you.  It’s important to pick one of these billing companies that do not run a credit check, so you get a no credit check phone.  It will probably be the case that they will give you a small credit limit for calls, but it will get you connected.

Bad credit mobile contracts?

In a similar way if you have a lot of bad credit history you maybe looking for a no credit check mobile phone contract.  Because the capital cost of a handset is quite high, networks are often unwilling to trust people with bad credit with a new contract and expensive handset.  However, if you look for a sim only deal where you have a monthly charge and no free mobile, the credit check is far less strict.  You can buy a blackberry storm, iphone 3gs, nokia n71 or any other up-to-date mobile on eBay, and just put the sim in it no problems.