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O2 is a reasonable network, otherwise I wouldn't have been with it for nearly 5 years! Any problem I have had, has been dealt with immediately when I have phoned them up. Once they put double credit on my phone, and then sent me a message to say that they had realised their mistake, but ... Read review
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Advantages: £30 worth of messages absolutely free Disadvantages: Calls can be expensive
Having been an o2 customer for many years, in fact ever since I got my first mobile phone at the age of 14, I was keen to see what all the fuss was about with regards to their relatively new sim card that offers 300 free messages and 1Mb of WAP for you to go surfing the net on your phone with.
I have always been one to text and rarely phone anyone (unless its my taxi service or rather my mum!). Not so long ago, o2 changed their tariffs ... ...(if you're not familiar with o2 they offer various 'bolt ons' whereby you pay a certain amount per month to get a number of messages, my messages were working out at 7p rather than 10p), but I was always using up the messages, and therefore spending roughly £10 on my phone, if not more when I was feeling the urge to send more messages!
My friend had recently bought the genie sim card, and seemed rather impressed with it. I had been ... more
Having been an o2 customer for many years, in fact ever since I got my first mobile phone at the age of 14, I was keen to see what all the fuss was about with regards to their relatively new sim card that offers 300 free messages and 1Mb of WAP for you to go surfing the net on your phone with.
I have always been one to text and rarely phone anyone (unless its my taxi service or rather my mum!). Not so long ago, o2 changed their tariffs slightly, and the price to send a text message on the original tariff went up from 10p to 12p. Now being a bit of a text addict, I wasn't happy with this, therefore swapped onto the talkalot tariff which still offers texts at 10p, which is a bit on the strange side when the tariff is called talkalot!
Anyway, I swapped onto the talkalot tariff and was fairly happy, as each month my £6.99 was taken off my phone for my text 100 bolt on (if you're not familiar with o2 they offer various 'bolt ons' whereby you pay a certain amount per month to get a number of messages, my messages were working out at 7p rather than 10p), but I was always using up the messages, and therefore spending roughly £10 on my phone, if not more when I was feeling the urge to send more messages!
My friend had recently bought the genie sim card, and seemed rather impressed with it. I had been tempted to buy it for a while now, but there was just something stopping me. In the end, I decided that I was spending £10 on my phone a month, and even though I didn't use 300 messages a month, I would benefit from the sim card.
I had been told that you could get your hands on the sim card for free off the o2 website, but looking into it I could only do this if I was buying a new phone. However, as pointed out by a friend the other day, o2 often have days when they are offering the sim for free. The actual cost of the sim card if you buy one yourself either from an o2 shop or off their website is £9.99, however, you can get them off ebay for as little as 99p.
If you are already with o2 and want to switch to this tariff, you can do without having to purchase a new sim card. However, I decided against this because I was informed by o2 that they would take £9.99 credit off my phone as this was the price of the sim card, and this wasn't going to activate the messages either. In the end I bought a sim card off ebay for £1.60.
When you have your sim card, you have to put £10 on your phone to activate the 300 messages and the 1MB of WAP. In the booklet that is given with the sim card, it says that the messages will be activated within the next 48 hours, however, mine were working immediately, which was definitely a bonus. Each month all you have to do is top up your phone with £10 to activate the messages. The £10 is then there to do what you please with, which is what I think the real bonus with this sim card, is! The day you top up your phone is your anniversary date, and every month after this date, your messages will start again, providing you have topped up your phone with £10. if you miss the date, don't worry, you will just be charged the normal 10p to send a message until you top up your phone, then the new date will become your anniversary date.
With the sim card there are 4 options for you to choose from:
1) 300 text messages, 0 picture messages, 1Mb of WAP 2) 200 text messages, 25 picture messages, 1Mb of WAP 3) 100 text messages, 50 picture messages, 1Mb of WAP 4) 0 text messages, 75 picture messages, 1M of WAP
This allows people who like to send picture messages to also benefit from this sim card!
There is also a variation of this sim card where by as described above, you top up your phone with £10 of credit each month, but with this sim card you get 100 anyone anytime minutes, 100 text messages and 33 media messages, as well as the 1Mb of WAP.
O2 is a reasonable network, otherwise I wouldn't have been with it for nearly 5 years! Any problem I have had, has been dealt with immediately when I have phoned them up. Once they put double credit on my phone, and then sent me a message to say that they had realised their mistake, but were not going to take this money back, whereas some other networks may have. Phone calls to o2 are quite expensive (50p per min) but there is an email service on their website, which I have used to good effect on several occasions, the problem or query has always been sorted and o2 are very quick at getting back to you.
Overall this is a very good sim card and network to be on, and I would thoroughly recommend it!
Advantages: 300 texts per month Disadvantages: sometimes even thats not enough
...a text-a-holic like me, then O2 PAYG Talkalot is the way to go. For this reason I'll talk mostly about the text side of things - though there are other variants of this which I know less about but do mention.
I had heard a lot of talk about Genie sims and then my wife got one. I didn't choose to get one myself until the tariff I was then on put it's message rate up to 12p a text and I started to look at how much I was spending on my phone every ... ...Despite this I've found O2 to be a very reasonable network On other occasions I've topped up my phone and it's taken a day or two to show up - in these instances I've received a message of apology from O2.
In fact I have received several messages from O2 informing me of promotions and prizes i.e treats and 10% back on top-ups. I even got a message once telling me about how the following Sunday all calls to O2 numbers would be free! so yes my battery ...
sky1234 28.10.2005
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Advantages: £30 worth of text messages free, 1MB of WAP, lots of extras Disadvantages: Expensive call charges so not suitable for everyone
...complete text-a-holic like me, then O2 PAYG Talkalot is the way to go. For this reason I'll talk mostly about the text side of things - though there are other variants of this which I know less about but do mention.
I had heard a lot of talk about Genie sims and then my friend got one. I didn't choose to get one myself until the tariff I was then on put it's message rate up to 12p a text and I started to look at how much I was spending on my phone ... ...Despite this I've found O2 to be a very reasonable network - I've only had a problem with them once, when I topped up and my credit failed to go on. This happened to a friend once before, he rang up and O2 quickly remedied the problem - I, however, choose not to because I thought I'd left it too late.
On other occasions I've topped up my phone and it's taken a day or two to show up - in these instances I've received a message of apology from O2 ...
lora44 27.03.2005
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Advantages: £30 free texts, Good email help service Disadvantages: None I can think of
...cards from Ebay, from the O2 website (£9.99) or for free through special promotions on the O2 website.
Basically this sim enables you to receive 300 free texts a month for topping up with £10.
As along as your phone is unlocked or you are currently on O2 all you need to do is pop the sim in your phone. You need to top up a minimum of £10 to allow you to get the free texts. Within 48 hours you will be able to start using these texts. When you send ... ...having just looked on the O2 website you can now have 100 media messages.
This deal is really good because 300 free texts equates to over £30 worth of texts a month!
I had to use the help function on the O2 website where you send an email through the website and they will hopefully answer your query through an email to you. You can then keep on replying to that email to solve your problem. I found this service to be very good as I must of sent ...
ames123 08.04.2005
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Advantages: 300 free text messages & 1Mb free WAP Disadvantages: customer services is expensive
...Investigation at my local O2 stores was discouraging, pay-as-you-go phones can get expensive these days! Then someone mentioned Argos. Another quick search online and I found out that some of their O2 phone packages were half price, including the Seimens C65 and Nokia 6610i both or which have good reviews and enough of the features I want in a mobile to keep me contented.
Finally, I needed to be sure I could use the Argos bought phone with the online ... ...O2 customer services, who were surprisingly helpful despite the things I have heard about them. They were fairly sure that the Argos phones came with an ordinary highstreet pay-as-you-go SIM. However, they said I could order the "300 Free Texts" SIM online, or even purchase one at a local O2 store where they are half price at the moment. £4.99 to be able to get all those free text messages and WAP access, what a bargain!
So I went to Argos & got ...
swf_kent 10.01.2005
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Advantages: 300mins to anyone plus 300 text mesages 10% credit back every 3 months Disadvantages: only off peak
...3mins then 5p after (other o2 and land lines)
I thought great, that will do, 3 days later the sim came through the post. I got hold of an old phone and I was up and running.
I plodded along with that for a bout 6 months and then o2 sent me a text message offering me this new tariff
If I put £15 credit on a month I got 150off peak minutes to any network plus 150 texts to use off peak.
OR
If I put £30 credit on 300 mins and 300 text to use off ... ...I think it's brilliant that o2 actually contacted me by text to see if it would interest me and that it cost nothing to change the tariff.
You just ring 2520 and it will tell you all the tariffs available to you.
You can then at any point change your tariff to any of the other combinations they have to offer.
PLUS
Now every 3 months you get 10% of your credit back no matter what tariff your on. I have not seen any other network offer anything ...
jess_Sharp 10.05.2005
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Advantages: Dont see any, Disadvantages: Poor phone lines, hidden rip offs.
Hello everyone,
This being my first review I thought let me write about something which has irritated me the most up to now.
Let's start with the lucrative figure and facts by which 02 rips people like me and you off.
O2 has so called three offers in payasyougo.
1) Pay & go2) Pay and goTalkalot
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1) Pay & go AND Pay & goTalkalot
This both offers are same and offer everything same.
Standard O2 numbers Calls: 25p for the first 3 minutes/day than 5p/min for the rest of the day.
Evening (Mon-Fri): 25p for the first 3 minutes/day than 5p/min for the rest of the day.
Weekends:
Other Network Mobiles: 40p/min 24/7 & 365 days a year.
SMS: 10p Anytime
MMS: 25p Anytime
Voicemail: 10p per message
Customer Service: 39p/min Anytime
Directory Enquiries 65p Anytime
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Advantages: Excellent Quality Radio Disadvantages: A step back for Nokia?
of helpline numbers.
Having topped up the phone (more info about calls etc below) I made a few phone calls, sent some text messages and listened to the radio. The following day I walked the 2 and a bit miles into St Ives and back (5 in total I'm a fit boy you know) listening to the radio. Later that day I played Solitaire while sat in the bath (I don't recommend this to persons unlike me who may be emotionally stable) I did this for 2 hours. On day three I pretty much replicated day two. With the exception of a lot of phone calls, and flicking about on the wap. On day four it suddenly dawned on me that I still had not charged the phone up and I still had two bars left on the phone.
O2
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