O2 Pay As You Go Talkalot

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, ...
...(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 ...

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...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 ...

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...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 · Read full review
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...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 · Read full review
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...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 · Read full review
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...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 · Read full review
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...at one point, and an O2 banner ad caught my eye - I clicked the banner and read the terms of the offer and decided to order myself some free sim cards... now most of my friends are no the network taking advantage of all the free texts! I'v always been one to text rather than phone, and with 300 free texts every month that I top-up my phone, i've found me monthly phone bill has been cut from around £40 a month to £10!! Although any remaining texts ...
...they were in was superb. O2 had obviously made an effort to make the transition to their network smooth and easy - everything you needed to know was presented neatly in a booklet. While the call charges are not particularly cheap (but hey, they are not cheap on any network), after three minutes they drop to quite a cheap rate. And with O2 Treats you can get other great things like free calls to voicemail and reduced call rates. On a whole, I don't ...

Dj_Ang 06.06.2006 · Read full review
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...Genie some time ago, But o2 mustve bought them out or something. The basic idea is you top up £10 a month minimum, and when you do you recieve 300 free texts and 1Mb worth of GPRS to use up. These dissapear after a month but the £10 credit doesn't. Calls are very cheap and i would reccomend getting o2 friends (uses £4.99 of your credit per month), this allows you to choose 3 numbers and you get half price everything to them, which is a good deal ...
...month of so, just check o2 homepage or banner ads on AOL, Lycos, Hotmail etc. So you can sell them at a profit. There is no minimum contract and if you dont top up the £10 a month you simply keep what credit you have and dont recieve the 300 texts and GPRS, there is no disconnection! Signal is o2 so is very good all over, close rival to vodafone in coverage area. There is 2 options of tarrif, talkalot and original you can choose from and move around ...

mattdarbon 18.02.2005 · Read full review
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With this o2 you can top up when ever you want by credit or debit card, top up vouchers minimum £10 available, or even easier if you buy a top up card and keep the card afterwards, you can use it as a swipe card to get credit and your phone is automatically topped up. If you top up a minimum of £10 every month you get 300 free texts thrown in for free. You can alter this though depending on how you use your phone for example you can have 200 texts ...
...day Calls to O2 mobiles - As standard calls , Other UK network mobiles -40p anytime , Voicemail 901 - message retrieval 10p per call to Voicemail 901, Outside your free texts and picture messages, texts cost 10p and MMS cost 25p. Calls to customer services are charged at 50p per minute. I have had one of these sim cards now for a couple of years and have had no problems with it, it is almost like having a contract phone but without the contract! ...

uk_girl_nikki 18.08.2005 (19.08.2005) · Read full review
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I've had this Sim card for about 2 years now (I think), and wouldn't consider changing it. The basic deal is that you top up your account each month with a minimum of £10, and you get 300 texts free. The £10 credit doesn't have to used, so if you never made any calls, or extra texts, then your credit would just continue mounting each month. You can buy these Sim cards from o2.co.uk, or an 02 shop. They are also usually available on Ebay. They usually ...
...or any unlocked phone. Every so often 02 seem to do promos on these cards, about 6 months ago you could get 6 cards for free on line. This is where most of them come from on Ebay (I was guilty of this myself!!). HOWEVER, at present the Sim cards are FREE at o2.co.uk, so go and grab one! I am a bit of a textaholic, and have only ever run out of free texts once. It is annoying when this happens, as you realise what an expensive habit it could be. ...

chocolatejo987 27.03.2005 · Read full review
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I started using O2 in 2002 when i first met my boyfriend. At that point the service was that you top up by £10 per month and before your anniversary date. Your anniversary date is the day that you first top up on and once you top up you recieve 300 texts free and unlimited free wap. Then in 2004 the wap was limited to 300 free minutes but you still got the free texts. Their was also bolt ons such has cheap calls to friends and family who have ...
...and they have something called o2 pocket which you get about 60 free texts you can send to your friends and family. I use this facility alot as its free and if you dont want to use all your free text or credit then this facility would be a good option to use. Since then this year they have started charging you for the amount of wap you use and they expect you to have 50p on your phone before you can use the wap. They have also got this reward thing ...

kelbean 14.09.2005 · Read full review
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The o2 Genie card, a piece of plastic and a bit of electronics, quite like any other simcard. Just one nice big fat difference, £££'s of free stuff. Ill lay down the facts then. Top up £10 a month and get £30 worth of text's free, or as o2 refers to as 300 "units". There's two options "text a lot" or "talk a lot". Heres a little help: Option 1 - 300 units, use only on messages, SMS=1 unit, MMS=3 units. Option 2 - 100 units, use on calls and texts. ...
...hard to understand :D Then they throw in some free wap, (mobile internet) , 1MB of it which will save you quite a bit. Also for signing up (brand new sim card only) they give you a free poly ringtone, free java game and a free pic message. Not bad you say? Well it gets better. They will give you £2.50 calltime free if you send them a FREE text stating your details and £3 calltime the first time you top up online. Downside, pretty expensive calls ...

caza_4 02.06.2005 · Read full review
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I had been on a O2 contract for nearly 4 years and was finding it more and more expensive. So I decided to cancel my contract and look for better deals. The nice people at O2 offered me a free SIM and to transfer my contract number to a pay and go sim... excellent!! I was told to call a few days before my contract runs out and the numbers would be swapped on the final day. When I did this I was told by another customer service adviser that it was ...
...this to be registered at O2 and when it did it did not work. When it finally started to work it turns out you have to make a three minute call initially to qualify for the 300mins to work. Other things were frustrating such as supposed rewards for topping up online for the first time, topping up over the phone the first time or using your swipe card the first time. They advertise it as you get more than you actually do, but cover their backs in the ...

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Good Points 300 texts and 1Mb of GPRS OR 100 minutes and 1Mb Of GPRS Free when you top-up £10.00 each month. Bad Points Customer service 02 branding on phones Calls cost too much General Comments I had been with 02 for a year when I found out about their online tariffs, which aren't what they say they are. When I first received their free Sim card through the post, I put it into my phone and I got free text messages without topping up. This ...
...£10.00 each month. Then one month I didn't top up. The month after I did, and I only received 30 messages. I contacted 02 who said they were sorry. I then heard of EasyMobile with 15p calls and 5p texts, so I changed my network. 02 said I had to pay £15.00 for my phone to be unlocked, so I got it unlocked at a local shop. After I bought my new Sim card and everything else, my phone was still branded with the 02 goodbye and 02 active logos. I asked ...

z.j.c 28.04.2007 · Read full review
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...With this sim card from O2 you can top up when you like via credit/debit card, top up vouchers(minimum £10 available), via cash machines, sky digital or online, but if you top up by a minimum of £10 every calendar month you get 300 free texts thrown in for free. You can tweak this to 200 texts and 25 MMS messages or 100 texts and 50MMS's or just 75 MMS messages. You get 1Mb of WAP free to if you keep to the £10 monthly top up. If you forget to ...
...day Calls to O2 mobiles - As standard calls , Other UK network mobiles -40p anytime , Voicemail 901 - message retrieval 10p per call to Voicemail 901, Outside your free texts and picture messages, texts cost 10p and MMS cost 25p. Calls to customer services are charged at 50p per minute which is quite pricy but I have never had to ring them! All in all a good package with no real commitments! I have never had to pay for a text since I started ...

lisaleahjack 25.10.2004 (29.10.2004) · Read full review
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