On 19/07/2025 14:47, Timatmarford wrote:
As said earlier, I have upgraded to my wife's old i-phone.I would imagine that you will no longer be able to make calls
Along the way, I have come to the end of my 2 year contract with O2.
What happens if I do nothing?
As said earlier, I have upgraded to my wife's old i-phone.
Along the way, I have come to the end of my 2 year contract with O2.
What happens if I do nothing?
Tim
As said earlier, I have upgraded to my wife's old i-phone.
Along the way, I have come to the end of my 2 year contract with O2.
What happens if I do nothing?
Tim
On 19/07/2025 14:47, Timatmarford wrote:
As said earlier, I have upgraded to my wife's old i-phone.
Along the way, I have come to the end of my 2 year contract with O2.
What happens if I do nothing?
It's nearly always possible to get a better deal by talking to the
provider. You are now a "valuable customer" and they will negotiate if
you tell them you can get better elsewhere.
Staying put is usually the most expensive option.
On 19/07/2025 15:52, mm0fmf wrote:
On 19/07/2025 14:47, Timatmarford wrote:Best o2 deals at present seem to be via uswitch, even if not switching.
As said earlier, I have upgraded to my wife's old i-phone.
Along the way, I have come to the end of my 2 year contract with O2.
What happens if I do nothing?
It's nearly always possible to get a better deal by talking to the
provider. You are now a "valuable customer" and they will negotiate if
you tell them you can get better elsewhere.
Staying put is usually the most expensive option.
You get a free trial of something that you probably don't want.
I assume o2 get a kick back if folks sign up.
I didn't choose any of the offered offers but still got the lower rate.
As said earlier, I have upgraded to my wife's old i-phone.
Along the way, I have come to the end of my 2 year contract with O2.
What happens if I do nothing?
On 19/07/2025 15:59, David Wade wrote:
On 19/07/2025 15:52, mm0fmf wrote:
On 19/07/2025 14:47, Timatmarford wrote:Best o2 deals at present seem to be via uswitch, even if not
As said earlier, I have upgraded to my wife's old i-phone.
Along the way, I have come to the end of my 2 year contract with O2.
What happens if I do nothing?
It's nearly always possible to get a better deal by talking to the
provider. You are now a "valuable customer" and they will negotiate
if you tell them you can get better elsewhere.
Staying put is usually the most expensive option.
switching. You get a free trial of something that you probably don't
want.
I assume o2 get a kick back if folks sign up.
I didn't choose any of the offered offers but still got the lower rate.
OK Dave.
I'll have a look at uswitch.
I tried to login on to the O2 site and got run around by Virgin. Surely
they know if the login attempt is from a Desktop!
There doesn't seem any urgency as my monthly bill is currently around £7.0
On 19/07/2025 15:59, David Wade wrote:
On 19/07/2025 15:52, mm0fmf wrote:
On 19/07/2025 14:47, Timatmarford wrote:Best o2 deals at present seem to be via uswitch, even if not switching.
As said earlier, I have upgraded to my wife's old i-phone.
Along the way, I have come to the end of my 2 year contract with O2.
What happens if I do nothing?
It's nearly always possible to get a better deal by talking to the
provider. You are now a "valuable customer" and they will negotiate if
you tell them you can get better elsewhere.
Staying put is usually the most expensive option.
You get a free trial of something that you probably don't want.
I assume o2 get a kick back if folks sign up.
I didn't choose any of the offered offers but still got the lower rate.
OK Dave.
I'll have a look at uswitch.
I tried to login on to the O2 site and got run around by Virgin. Surely
they know if the login attempt is from a Desktop!
There doesn't seem any urgency as my monthly bill is currently around £7.0
Timatmarford <[email protected]> wrote:
On 19/07/2025 15:59, David Wade wrote:
On 19/07/2025 15:52, mm0fmf wrote:
On 19/07/2025 14:47, Timatmarford wrote:Best o2 deals at present seem to be via uswitch, even if not switching.
As said earlier, I have upgraded to my wife's old i-phone.
Along the way, I have come to the end of my 2 year contract with O2. >>>>>
What happens if I do nothing?
It's nearly always possible to get a better deal by talking to the
provider. You are now a "valuable customer" and they will negotiate if >>>> you tell them you can get better elsewhere.
Staying put is usually the most expensive option.
You get a free trial of something that you probably don't want.
I assume o2 get a kick back if folks sign up.
I didn't choose any of the offered offers but still got the lower rate.
OK Dave.
I'll have a look at uswitch.
I tried to login on to the O2 site and got run around by Virgin. Surely
they know if the login attempt is from a Desktop!
There doesn't seem any urgency as my monthly bill is currently around £7.0
You don’t say what your monthly data usage is.
If it’s very low, you could try Spusu’s Special: £2:90pm, unlimited (UK) calls and texts, 500 minutes + 500 texts (EU and Switzerland), 1GB of 5G data, runs on the EE network, e-sim available (be ‘on the air’ in minutes).
On 19/07/2025 14:47, Timatmarford wrote:
As said earlier, I have upgraded to my wife's old i-phone.
Along the way, I have come to the end of my 2 year contract with O2.
What happens if I do nothing?
It's nearly always possible to get a better deal by talking to the
provider. You are now a "valuable customer" and they will negotiate if
you tell them you can get better elsewhere.
Staying put is usually the most expensive option.
On 19/07/2025 15:52, mm0fmf wrote:
On 19/07/2025 14:47, Timatmarford wrote:
As said earlier, I have upgraded to my wife's old i-phone.
Along the way, I have come to the end of my 2 year contract with O2.
What happens if I do nothing?
It's nearly always possible to get a better deal by talking to the
provider. You are now a "valuable customer" and they will negotiate if
you tell them you can get better elsewhere.
Staying put is usually the most expensive option.
I don't understand why they do this.
The network has to pay wages[1] for all those people with whom you
haggle to try and get a cheaper deal.
Couldn't they save costs by just having a reasonable rate in the first
place?
[1] Wages, or commission or...
On 19/07/2025 15:52, mm0fmf wrote:
On 19/07/2025 14:47, Timatmarford wrote:
As said earlier, I have upgraded to my wife's old i-phone.
Along the way, I have come to the end of my 2 year contract with O2.
What happens if I do nothing?
It's nearly always possible to get a better deal by talking to the
provider. You are now a "valuable customer" and they will negotiate if
you tell them you can get better elsewhere.
Staying put is usually the most expensive option.
I don't understand why they do this.
The network has to pay wages[1] for all those people with whom you
haggle to try and get a cheaper deal.
Couldn't they save costs by just having a reasonable rate in the first
place?
[1] Wages, or commission or...
As said earlier, I have upgraded to my wife's old i-phone.
Along the way, I have come to the end of my 2 year contract with O2.
What happens if I do nothing?
If you go SIM only, take a look at GiffGaff, LeBara, Tesco, etc., as they
all run on the O2 network, but usually at a lower cost.
On 19/07/2025 14:47, Timatmarford wrote:
As said earlier, I have upgraded to my wife's old i-phone.
Along the way, I have come to the end of my 2 year contract with O2.
What happens if I do nothing?
Normally, you'll just carry on being billed each month. However, the
price of mobile phone contracts is often based on getting a new phone at
the start and once you reach the end of the contract period, you are
still paying the inflated rate for the calls AND a phone. If this is
your case, then you should either get a new phone and start again or
keep the existing phone and switch to a cheaper, SIM only deal.
If you go SIM only, take a look at GiffGaff, LeBara, Tesco, etc., as
they all run on the O2 network, but usually at a lower cost.
On 19/07/2025 14:47, Timatmarford wrote:
As said earlier, I have upgraded to my wife's old i-phone.
Along the way, I have come to the end of my 2 year contract with O2.
What happens if I do nothing?
Normally, you'll just carry on being billed each month. However, the
price of mobile phone contracts is often based on getting a new phone
at the start and once you reach the end of the contract period, you
are still paying the inflated rate for the calls AND a phone. If this
is your case, then you should either get a new phone and start again
or keep the existing phone and switch to a cheaper, SIM only deal.
If you go SIM only, take a look at GiffGaff, LeBara, Tesco, etc., as
they all run on the O2 network, but usually at a lower cost.
SteveW <[email protected]> wrote in >news:105ha9r$306np$[email protected]:
On 19/07/2025 14:47, Timatmarford wrote:
As said earlier, I have upgraded to my wife's old i-phone.
Along the way, I have come to the end of my 2 year contract with O2.
What happens if I do nothing?
Normally, you'll just carry on being billed each month. However, the
price of mobile phone contracts is often based on getting a new phone
at the start and once you reach the end of the contract period, you
are still paying the inflated rate for the calls AND a phone. If this
is your case, then you should either get a new phone and start again
or keep the existing phone and switch to a cheaper, SIM only deal.
If you go SIM only, take a look at GiffGaff, LeBara, Tesco, etc., as
they all run on the O2 network, but usually at a lower cost.
For clarity Lebara is actually on Vodafone which is fine (IMV better >nationwide coverage than O2) but the o/p will need to verify that he has
good local coverage which can be done with a PAYG sim as well as via the >coverage maps.
Whilst Tim is going contract, Pete Foreman's excellent PAYG provider
guide is useful to see which secondary provider (MVNO) uses which main >carrier:
https://payg.pythonanywhere.com/
Gifgaff is the obvious O2 alternative.
Also worth considering on Vodafone are Talkmobile, IMV good service,
prompt support responses:
https://talkmobile.co.uk/
The current deal at �7 doesn't sound as if it had a phone purchase
attached (too cheap) but it doesn't do any harm to shop around. MVNOs
tend to offer monthly contracts.
As said earlier, I have upgraded to my wife's old i-phone.They keep charging you every month, the phone stays working, the only
Along the way, I have come to the end of my 2 year contract with O2.
What happens if I do nothing?
Timatmarford wrote:
As said earlier, I have upgraded to my wife's old i-phone.They keep charging you every month, the phone stays working, the only
Along the way, I have come to the end of my 2 year contract with O2.
What happens if I do nothing?
change is that you can cancel any time you like (or move providers
without penalty).
On 20/07/2025 16:27, Andy Burns wrote:
Timatmarford wrote:
As said earlier, I have upgraded to my wife's old i-phone.They keep charging you every month, the phone stays working, the only
Along the way, I have come to the end of my 2 year contract with O2.
What happens if I do nothing?
change is that you can cancel any time you like (or move providers
without penalty).
Does seem the best solution currently.
My bigger problem is wrapping my diminishing brain cells around a system
that has had 10 or more years evolution while I stuck to a simple mobile telephone!
Also, elderly farmers fingers are unsuitable for swipe controls:-(
I have a Motorola Moto E5 play in a drawer somewhere. At least I have a written manual for that.
Thanks all for the suggestions.
If you go SIM only, take a look at GiffGaff, LeBara, Tesco, etc., as they
all run on the O2 network, but usually at a lower cost.
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