salsa-king

ANOTHER PHONE THREAD lol


I rang o2 this afternoon as my 18month contract ends at the end of the month,
at the mo paying just ovr £15pm for 200mins 500 tex and i think I have 1Mb of data.

best he now offer is free phone.. 300mins unlimited tex nd 500mb of data =£25!!! on 24month contract!!!



anyone got them to budge from that?


tesco do a better deal at £20 and 02 said they can't come down.


who's got the best deal on phone this month?

I would like to have free internet (and wifi so I can use that at home off my Broadband).
I think £20 pm is ample.


So who should I be ringing to get the best deal?

M4RKG

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all depends who you speak to on the day, whether or not the customer advisor you speak to has money in their "pot" to give away.

I'd ring a few more times if you can be arsed with all the call centre bull sh*t

My contact up in January and I've recently claimed on my insurance and ended up with a brand new blackberry as they dont make my old one anymore, so i'll be going for tescos sim only... £10 a month, loads of calls, unlimited texts and 500mg data

... hopefully they still do it in a few months!

Kieran_Burns

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I've phoned about a new HD7 and been told £35 a month gives a free phone 600 mins any time any network, and 750Mb download (apparently all networks are limiting download on the HD7...)

at the moment I'm on a monthly contract (sim only) 1000mins, 1000 texts, unlimited internet for £20

Snazy

I currently have a blackberry 9700 which was free, 200 mins, unlimited texts and 1gb data for £12 a month lol, on an 18 month contract.
Just been offered to upgrade another contract early. £90 for the phone blackberry torch 9800 and £20 a month which is BIS 1gb, 300 mins and 400 texts.
I agree though, it's who you speak to on the day

zip106

I thought O2 had stopped unlimited data for new and upgrading customers and that the other providers will follow suit?

mart360

AFAIK if you continue with current contracts, roll on at the end of your
12/18 /24 month term, you keep the current terms, minutes data texts etc

When you upgrade, you get a new contract with new terms

i'll be losing my unlimited data when change in a few weeks

Mart

Kieran_Burns

iTrader: (1)

You know - it's just occurred to me that I may as well buy the damn' phone for £400 and have a better deal!

TonyBurns

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Probably, its going that way, free handsets are a rare thing without a contract that is £40 plus a month, if you like the phone you have then simpicity/sim only contract.

Tony

davyboy

Nothing is free when paying £25, £35 or whatever over 24 months.

Kieran_Burns

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As in: you pay for it during the life of the contract or you think I can't get the phone without an initial outlay?

(I've been with CPW for 10 years now and get good customer loyalty out of it)

ScoobyDoo555

gonna say - bypass the upgrade monkeys and go straight for the "I'm leaving" option.

You get a MUCH better deal (should you decide to stay with them)

salsa-king

what can you get for £20 a month though? So many out there I don't know who to look at.
do i have to go to a 2yr contract?
we all know battery life starts dropping after about 9months too

Gregsti01

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Correct

Gregsti01

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If we all bought pay as you go phones for 3 mths the price would fall thro the floor,O2 is in a financial mess at the moment look at their share prices,3G is a joke,nothing will get better until we walk away

salsa-king

what is 3G?

hodgy0_2

ask for your PAC code

really concentrates their mind


I moved my wife from a 02 PAYG to the Tesco £10 sim only deal

phoenixgold

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Ask for retentions. Got 800 mins, unlimited texts, 500Mb internet, unlimited landline and o2 calls for £30 with free phone.

Original call centre pleb was offering 300 mins and unlimited texts only for £30 and still wanted £59 for the phone. HTC Desire btw.

salsa-king

how easy is it to swap to another phone company and keep your Oe number?

Tidgy

try here phill,

http://www.mobiles.co.uk/

good service, greta price, great selection. mrs got hers form there and no issues at all.

as far as switching, other than going to vodaphone which is an ****, its dad easy. your current provider legaly has to give you the PAC code for your number which can be taken to other company.

hodgy0_2

pretty easy actually (to my surprise) as above I did it for my wife

02 gave me the PAC code over the phone -- then you call your new provider, and it takes abour 48 hours

(that was PAYG - to Tesco monthly contract)

Tidgy

just watch out for vodaphone though matey, they will only let you do the pac code thing at point of sale, not after

SPEN555

Watch it with the PAC code. I got mine and then starting looking for a deal and took my time. They then rang me up asking why I had not used it yet and it was going to expire, WTF might be nice to advise that! Anyway I was not going to be rushed into anything and it did expire and they got really ar$ey with me to get another PAC code. I think rather than give it to me over the phone I had to write to them and they wrote back Things might be different now as it was years ago and this was Orange.

Snazy

PAC lasts 28 days, then they disgard the cancellation attached to the PAC, and either continue the contract or end it and lose the number.

The way Orange work is if you use the PAC within 28 days they take that as notification of cancellation. They should advise you of the expiry though.

Simon C

o2 are getting on my goat. Soon I'll be out of contract and I was looking at keeping with my iPhone.

On o2 on contract its £299 + 18 months at £35 a month.

Yet if you buy the phone from apple, its ....

£500 for the phone and on simplicity (the same freaking tarrif) 12 months at £15 a month.

Spoon

£7.50/Month for 600 minutes, unlimited texts, 1GB internet, free Vodafone to Vodafone calls, Passport, free WiFi.

For all tariffs, if you can't manage to sweet talk the girls on the phone, you'd be pretty daft to not go through Quidco.

salsa-king

what phone do you get?

Spoon

You don't. I don't subscribe to the upgrade culture. I've always bought my own when I've needed one.

salsa-king

phones are £200 though




tidgy, that site is a car phone warehouse company.

Spoon

Or more in the case of a decent phone.

I get to choose when I want a new phone and not when I have to. This stops continually having to pay a stupid overpriced tariff, month after month because they can use the 'free' phone upgrade as leverage to claim you're getting a decent deal.

Personal use of course.

salsa-king

hmmmmm, can you keep your number with PaYG?