O2 PAYG Blackberry

lalande21185

Hi

Not sure if the same for other networks, but.....
It says you must topup every month by £15 to get your Blackberry internet and so on.

With all the allowance I get, like 500 texts, unlimited email and internet.
I will never spend any of that £15 per month, as do not speak much on my phone, I do not need it.

I am on BB Text and WEB.
I have £18.55 in my account as just started on BB Text and Web.....which is fantastic for PAYG.
I have sent over a hundred texts in 3 weeks and used only 2mb of data.

So in 2 years time I will have £360 credit on my phone.
I know its O2's money, but its just going to sit there waiting for me to spend it but I never will. Unless I speak on my phone for hours on end to use it up.

So will money just sit there until I stop using O2 and the phone number cancels itself and the account closes.......
Guess it will be.

?????????????

jamiex

lalande21185 wrote: »

Hi

Not sure if the same for other networks, but.....
It says you must topup every month by £15 to get your Blackberry internet and so on.

With all the allowance I get, like 500 texts, unlimited email and internet.
I will never spend any of that £15 per month, as do not speak much on my phone, I do not need it.

I am on BB Text and WEB.
I have £18.55 in my account as just started on BB Text and Web.....which is fantastic for PAYG.
I have sent over a hundred texts in 3 weeks and used only 2mb of data.

So in 2 years time I will have £360 credit on my phone.
I know its O2's money, but its just going to sit there waiting for me to spend it but I never will. Unless I speak on my phone for hours on end to use it up.

So will money just sit there until I stop using O2 and the phone number cancels itself and the account closes.......
Guess it will be.

?????????????

Well when you get to the point where you have a lot of credit, you could get an o2 contract, port your number in from pay and go and the credit should be credited to your pay monthly account.

If you have £360, you can get a sim only tariff for £20/month and pay nothing for 18 months (though you still have to pay the first month's bill as it's credited after this)

Hope this helps.

lalande21185

Cheers for your reply

I will not top up, and just see how long my £15 will last me.
I asked in an O2 shop what will happen to my Blackberry bolt on but they said that will stay and you will just be using data at the £ per MB rate.

My £15 might last me 3 months but still have the emails as bolton is provided for free now. But of course you pay for the data you use.

Its nice getting your email pushed so don't have to check all the time.
At least not stuck on a contract for 2 years which I find so bad anyway and a major rip off being stuck on a 18-24 month contract for the UK consumer.

2 years such a long time for a contract now. Phones change so often and stuck with older phones. Dam ripoff.

Cheers

Karl