O2 Mobile Broadband - Free Laptops

lexie55_2

O2 website are offering free Samsung Laptops on mobile broadband, 24 month contract....

Lucascain_2

I've just signed up to O2 mobile broadband. Got a free phone with it, must have missed out on this offer.

Can I just say though, I'm extremely disappointed with it. It's incredibly slow, and I'm not paying £15 per month for it to take 30-45 seconds to search for a page on Google. It's terrible, DO NOT BUY O2 MOBILE BROADBAND.

I'm packing the whole thing up tonight (phone included) and sending it back to them. You have 50 days to return it.

5limJim

Lucascain wrote: »

I've just signed up to O2 mobile broadband. Got a free phone with it, must have missed out on this offer.

Can I just say though, I'm extremely disappointed with it. It's incredibly slow, and I'm not paying £15 per month for it to take 30-45 seconds to search for a page on Google. It's terrible, DO NOT BUY O2 MOBILE BROADBAND.

I'm packing the whole thing up tonight (phone included) and sending it back to them. You have 50 days to return it.

i do think it depends on how good a phone signal you get for O2 as to how good the mobile broadband would be also, there was a website published somewhere where you enter your postcode, and it recommends whether mobiole broadband would work or not.....it said it was fine for my house, but not good for my girlfriends where i was hoping to use it part of the time (and loan to her so she can get basic web access)

jhp

lexie55 wrote: »

O2 website are offering free Samsung Laptops on mobile broadband, 24 month contract....

Their not Free you pay for them in the bundle.

Carphone Warehouse, Phones 4u and 3 have already stop promoting laptop deals with the word free. I understand this is because they believe the word free could be misleading and fall foul of Trading Standards regulations.

doobiesis_2

lexie55 wrote: »

O2 website are offering free Samsung Laptops on mobile broadband, 24 month contract....

http://shop.o2.co.uk/laptop/Samsung/NC10-Mini_Laptop:money:

ManAtHome

Tariff is around £15 a month more than the mobile broadband dongle, so you end up paying £350+ for the "free" NC10. Possibly not a bad deal if you were going to get one on the credit card and pay it off over 2 years though.

5limJim

ManAtHome wrote: »

Tariff is around £15 a month more than the mobile broadband dongle, so you end up paying £350+ for the "free" NC10. Possibly not a bad deal if you were going to get one on the credit card and pay it off over 2 years though.

thats basically how i am looking at it, i was interested in mobile broadband anyway, and rather than stumping up for a laptop straight away i get to pay it off over 2 years @15/month (approximately)

am looking to start working for and on something myself, and remember reading on here years ago how Martin was working out of a cheap office (ie: starbucks) the only downside with O2 is that thier free wifi access is with the Cloud, but tmobile uses tmobile hotpsots which i think there are more of nationwide (ie: in starbucks).... hmmmm, decisions decisions

ps: are these available for existing o2 customers signing up via quidco?

macman

ManAtHome wrote: »

Tariff is around £15 a month more than the mobile broadband dongle, so you end up paying £350+ for the "free" NC10. Possibly not a bad deal if you were going to get one on the credit card and pay it off over 2 years though.

Don't quite see the point at around £360, because they're only about £320 in the shops or online. Why not just put it on an interest free credit card deal?
If you do the former, then you're then locked into a 24 month contract on what in 2 years may be an unfavourable mobile broadband rate. The prices are likely to come down a lot over that period.

5limJim

macman wrote: »

Don't quite see the point at around £360, because they're only about £320 in the shops or online. Why not just put it on an interest free credit card deal?
If you do the former, then you're then locked into a 24 month contract on what in 2 years may be an unfavourable mobile broadband rate. The prices are likely to come down a lot over that period.

not everyone can get one?

ps: are these laptops literally instore waiting to take home, or do they have to deliver them

macman

But if you can't pass the credit check for a credit card (especially if you're only looking for a minimal credit limit), then you're not going to pass the credit check for a free laptop either.

5limJim

macman wrote: »

But if you can't pass the credit check for a credit card (especially if you're only looking for a minimal credit limit), then you're not going to pass the credit check for a free laptop either.

i know someone who failed the credit check for a credit card on Monday, but passed the O2 check for a laptop deal on Wednesday, they're an O2 customer, not sure if that makes a difference... the laptops werent in stock on wednesday, dont know if that was just short supply, he did receive it on thursday though via courier.

thats why i was asking whether the laptops were meant to be in stock, or whether they get sent out