O2 PAYG help - is this right?

FTD

Hi
Could you helpful folks clarify some O2 questions for me please?

If I was to use O2 pay & go, and top up by £15 a month for the 'text anytime' option, this gives me 500 txts to use in the next 30 days i've topped up for (I understand this bit.).
I presume what what I don't use of the £15 carry forward to the next month?

Out of this £15, It's going to cost me 25p for the first three mins of a call a day, is this 25p per min for the first 3 mins of each call or just the first 3 mins of the day (25p to landlines)?


What i'm thinking is, it's quite a cheap tarriff if you top up by £15 and use an overide provider for calls to mobiles such as 1899's 0208 10p/min number, then out of this £15 you can make at least 40 mins of daytime/evening mobile to mobile calls. "O2 t&C's say:Calls made in the UK to 0844, 0845, 0800 and 0870 numbers are charged at 35p per min in the daytime, 10p per min in the evenings and 5p per min at weekends" - so must class 0208 as landline.

The O2 contract sim cost £19 a month fo 50 xnet mins and only 200 txts on the min tarriff.

If the full £15 isn't used and cash carries forward, then at some point, maybe in month 3 or 4, I may have enough not to top up that month and just use the credit I have built up for calls and texts?

Am I right in my calcs? (or am I talking tosh!!!)

Cheers

FTD

xxMandyxx

hey i am on o2 pay as u go but for £10 i just get 300 free texts which are not carried forward to the next month if i dont use them all. the 3 minutes you refer to is for the first 3 of the day, not for each call, the call cost drops thereafter for the rest of the day.

hope that helps x

nelly05

I am on o2 payg and for £15 month i get:-

150 off peak minutes x network
300 txt messages
£15 credit to use as per your understanding in your post (3x25 to o2 or landlines then 5p p/min)

Regards

heymylastnameislewis

i have just moved to 02 and am using the same as above (registered sim card sum time ago) i am very happy with the freebies, as good as a contract phone if u ask me and no direct debit! (handy when ur a student) however its worth making a note of that if u decide u wish to cange to get jsut texts as u can u can't go bk to the 300 txts & 150 off peak minutes as they have stopped doing this bunddle (prob cus it was such a good offer)

FTD

Thx for the replies folks.

FTD

kevt_3

I think O2s deal is way too complicated. Check this out from Vodafone - free Weekend calls & texts to any network - much better!

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=220692&highlight=free+weekend+calls

lamb7994

FTD wrote:

Hi

If I was to use O2 pay & go, and top up by £15 a month for the 'text anytime' option, this gives me 500 txts to use in the next 30 days i've topped up for (I understand this bit.).
I presume what what I don't use of the £15 carry forward to the next month?

If the full £15 isn't used and cash carries forward, then at some point, maybe in month 3 or 4, I may have enough not to top up that month and just use the credit I have built up for calls and texts?


FTD

I use the o2 talkanytime pay as you go package and top up £15 and after 3 or months i find i have enough not to top up that month so i use my credit to get that down and restart the following month.

Also if you don't top up one month then when you do the date you top up becomes your anniversary date for when you need to top up.

Hope this helps
James

kai666

FTD wrote:

Hi
Could you helpful folks clarify some O2 questions for me please?

If I was to use O2 pay & go, and top up by £15 a month for the 'text anytime' option, this gives me 500 txts to use in the next 30 days i've topped up for (I understand this bit.).
I presume what what I don't use of the £15 carry forward to the next month?


FTD

yes the £15 carries over, but the texts won't

FTD

kevt wrote:

I think O2s deal is way too complicated. Check this out from Vodafone - free Weekend calls & texts to any network - much better!

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=220692&highlight=free+weekend+calls

No, this is much worse, you have to factor in that it is reliant on you spending £5 a week (without taking into account buying the voda £5 text pack, which is a bolt on for that month only even though the actual spend works out at around £2.10), the O2 one I have pointed out is, in reality under £15 a month, the only benefit is the free weekend calls and texts, but with the 500 O2 txts, it's doubtful they would all be used in a month anyway!

FTD