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o2 offer better pay as you go deal

HenrysCat — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 19:42:43 GMT

o2 offer 7GB and Unlimited minutes for £10, EE offer 4GB and 100 minutes for £10, why should I stay with EE ?

Re: o2 offer better pay as you go deal

Kirigaya_Kazuto — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 20:08:06 GMT

No one is forcing you to stay - unless you're on a contract then you won't get any 'loyalty benefits'

Which, you have to threaten to leave to get a good deal, which is a shame really

Re: o2 offer better pay as you go deal

mikeliuk — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 20:16:51 GMT

Hi @HenrysCat ,

The good thing about PAYG is that you can get a SIM from another service provider and try it in an unlocked mobile for a couple of months to ensure everything is better in the locations which you typically spend your time before jumping ship.

For those of us tied to minimum term contracts, we would incur additional costs in order to try this.

You might be interested in mobile data performance in your area and the OpenSignal app is good for this. If you don't already have an unlocked phone, this may be an additional cost.

Re: o2 offer better pay as you go deal

XRaySpeX — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 20:28:01 GMT

Too right! On top of which you can get free allowances for the month ahead every time you top-up while you can bank the top-up until you are free to use in its entirety to buy allowances in future months.

So what I do is:

Top-up for n months in succession, covering all my usage for those months.
Draw down on those unused top-ups for the next m months to buy Bolt-ons (O2's equivalent of EE's Packs) to cover all my usage for these months.

Re: o2 offer better pay as you go deal

XRaySpeX — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 20:30:01 GMT

@mikeliuk : Quite irrelevant to the subject matter. Much like your fabulous switch-port LEDs.