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Cell Phone Rental for United Kingdom

Rent a cell phone for use in United Kingdom. With a cell phone rental, you will also need to purchase a UK SIM card. The prepaid International SIM card in conjunction with a rented or purchased GSM phone is the most convenient solution for making cell phone calls, whether you are in the UK over in one of the 115 other countries your rental phone covers.

Regardless of where you will be, you will always retain the same phone number. Outgoing rates, with few exceptions, are approximately 50 cents per minute for domestic and international phone calls as outlined below. Incoming calls, with few exceptions, are the same.

Since these cellular phone cards are prepaid, there is no need for a contract, no minimums and no surprise credit card statements. For many people, purchasing a cellular phone while in Great Britain is a smarter option to renting.

Read this guide so that you can make an informed decision!

GSM Phone Rental Rates
GSM Phone Weekly Rates Additional
Weeks*
1-week 2-week 3-week
1 Motorola V180 $24.95 $39.95 $49.95 $10.00
1 Motorola RAZR V3 $34.95 $49.95 $59.95 $15.00

* Additional rental weeks are calculated for weeks in addition to a 3-week rental period. Charges are applied for each additional week.

Select GSM Phone you want to rent.
Motorola RAZR V3 or similar phone ( 1-week $34.95 )
Motorola RAZR V3 or similar phone ( 2-week $49.95 )
Motorola RAZR V3 or similar phone ( 3-week $59.95 )
Motorola RAZR V3 or similar phone ( 4-week $69.95 )
Motorola RAZR V3 or similar phone ( 5-week $79.95 )
Motorola RAZR V3 or similar phone ( 6-week $89.95 )
Motorola RAZR V3 or similar phone ( 7-week $99.95 )
Motorola RAZR V3 or similar phone ( 8-week $109.95 )
Motorola RAZR V3 or similar phone ( 9-week $119.95 )
Motorola V180 or similar phone ( 1-week $24.95 )
Motorola V180 or similar phone ( 2-week $39.95 )
Motorola V180 or similar phone ( 3-week $49.95 )
Motorola V180 or similar phone ( 4-week $59.95 )
Motorola V180 or similar phone ( 5-week $69.95 )
Motorola V180 or similar phone ( 6-week $79.95 )
Motorola V180 or similar phone ( 7-week $89.95 )
Motorola V180 or similar phone ( 8-week $99.95 )
Motorola V180 or similar phone ( 9-week $109.95 )

Ask a Technical Question ?
( Customer Response Center will respond to your technical inquiry within 24 hrs. )


Please view our GSM Phone Rentals page for more important information.

View our selection of Prepaid UK SIM Cards for GSM cellular phones!

Activating Your Service:

  • Insert the SIM card into your phone
  • Note your phone number (it is located on the plastic SIM card holder)
  • Make a call to anywhere. This will activate your service.

*note: If the operator asks you for an address in the UK. This can be any address - your hotel, a friend's address, etc...


Adding Talk Time:

Purchase the recharge card for your UK SIM card directly from us!
For your convenience, we offer the £10 UK recharge card for use with your UK SIM! Simplify your phone usage by purchasing your recharge cards directly from us for $20.95. Then follow these simple directions to add talk time to your UK SIM:

  1. Scratch off the gray panel to find out the unique card number.
  2. Phone 789 free from your phone and follow the instructions.
    (Next time you could always top up using your credit/debit card. Call 789.)

Recharge vouchers can be purchase through any authorized Virgin Mobile shop in the United Kingdom. They're available in domination of £5 and £10. For a list of shops visit http://www.virgin.com/mobile.


Great Britain Cell Phone Rates:

These rates are Virgin Mobiles standard costs for most of your UK calls. They include peak and off-peak calls, using the Virgin Mobile WAP service, calls and text messages to other Virgin Mobile phones within the UK and most freephone numbers. Virgin Mobile will not charge for calls to the certain select Virgin help lines as listed below.

United Kingdom Domestic Rates (per minute)
Call Type Rate
First 5 minutes of calls each day 15p
Each minute afer that 5p
Text messages to other Virgin Mobile customers* 3p per message

Other calls costs throughout the UK
Call Type Rate
Voicemail retrieval (provided you've got some airtime left) Free
Text messages to other UK networks 10p per message
Mobile from other network operators 35p per message
Pre-recorded information (789 from mobile) Free
Our team via 789 10p per call
Directory enguires (with call connect option) 40p first minute
then, each following minute 20p per minute
National Toll Rate numbers 15p per minute
Local Toll Rate numbers 10p per minute
Premium Rate calls (from 80p per to £2.25) call our team

All calls you make count towards the daily build up of minutes eachday , exept free calls, calls from abroud (see Virgin.com/mobile) and flat rate calls, eg a call to our team.

*Some Nokia phones can sendtext messages up to three times as long as normal. They'll be delivered as seperate messages, so you'll be charged for each.
United Kingdom International Rates (per minute)
Call type Rate
The Republic of Ireland, Guernes, Jersey and Isle of Man 15p
USA and Canada, Australia and New Zealand 20p
Europe, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysi, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan 40p
Rest of the world 80p
International text messages 20p per message


How to check your airtime balance:

You can check your balance anytime while in the UK for free by dialing 798 from your cell phone.

Service Life:

The Virgin Mobile SIM card is valid for a period of 180 from activation or 90 days from the last time you added talk time. Whichever is the later.


Coverage in Britan:

Cellular coverage in United Kingdom is excellent, far exceeding typical cellular coverage in the US.

Your rental cell phone will work in these cities in the UK:

Bath Birmingham Bradford Brighton & Hove Bristol Carlisle Cambridge Canterbury Chester Chichester Coventry Derby Durham Ely Exeter Gloucester Hereford Kingston-upon-Hull Lancaster Leeds Leicester Lichfield Lincoln Liverpool London Manchester Newcastle-upon-Tyne Norwich Nottingham Oxford Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Ripon Salford Salisbury Sheffield Southampton St Albans Stoke-on-Trent Sunderland Truro Wakefield Wells Westminster Winchester Wolverhampton Worcester York

Prepaid United Kingdom SIM Card Coverage




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