24/04/2026
With the cost of living currently crippling almost every family and industry, it’s imperative for us all to try to make savings wherever possible, that’s why repair is almost always better than replace.
For example: We can replace a damaged screen on an iPhone 14 for £110, this is for a high end OLED aftermarket part that calibrates perfectly with the phone and retains all the features of a genuine part, it also comes with a 2 year warranty.
On the other hand, if you replace the phone on a new contract with Tesco Mobile the same iPhone 14 would cost you £29.99 a month for 36 months totalling £1079.64!
£17.49 of that would go towards buying the phone costing a total of £629.64, with the balance of £15 going for your airtime plan.
This means for comparison, if you got the phone repaired, had a sim only contract (example Lebara £5 a month) you would save a staggering £789.64 over 3 years.
The example used was a like for like phone on contract with Tescos 3GB data plan, the £5 Lebara plan is for the 5GB data plan.