Fed up with current o2 18 month contract

joeh

yeah thats right.. thats what im doing lol! the people in phones4u confused me !! kept telling me i paid one month ahead which i only clicked onto last month lol... your may bill is actually junes bill and junes is julys.. so that when u get to november youv paid your contract off and can upgrade.. so in effect you only have to pay til november!

sporedude

On o2 I downgraded from £25 down to £15

Holli2011

oh right, yeah i might consider that, but i need to have a look at my finances when my eyes dont need matchsticks to stay open! Im still going to ring and try my luck first as i think thats alot of money to pay considering i havnt had any reimbursement for their ****up

sporedude

Ya dont need to do it one step at a time downgrading, Think they just say that.

hieveryone

sporedude wrote: »

Ya dont need to do it one step at a time downgrading, Think they just say that.

No you actually do, on the old tariffs you could downgrade straight away and pay the difference, but not anymore, and it's detailed in the T's+C's..

OP, if you've completed 9 months of your contract then you can start to downgrade. And as I mentioned before, if you were originally on the £25 and moved to £35, then you can go straight to £25.

sporedude

I was told I could downgrade as far as I wanted, Went from £25 right down to £15, Just told them I wasnt using the phone.

Holli2011

i will tell them i wont be using the phone and that i would be still with them but on another higher paying contract

BarGin

Couldn't you just change your current bolt on to unlimited web, you would still get 1,000 texts? Then buy a payg iPhone switching to £20 pm Simplicity when your current contract expires.

redux

I agree with BarGin about changing rather than downgrading tariff

The £35 a month contract comes with one free bolt-on, and you ought to able to switch mid-contract, so choose unlimited internet. The included texts are either 500 or 1000; I believe this number depends on where the upgrade was done.

If those included texts still wouldn't be enough for you, look into services such as smsbug or Fishtext, which use a mobile Java client to send an equivalent using the phone's data connection, costing from a penny or so per message.

Holli2011

but the payG iphone is £340/£390...thats a bit expensive for me upfront, whereas in bits and pieces its alot easier to find