Ovivo New Network. 200 minutes 200 Texts Free indefinitely.

luci

I emailed them late on a Friday night and had a reply next morning even though they only work until lunchtime on a Saturday.

diamonds

If they do a discounted sim offer for MSE like Samba I may order more sims, come on moneysupermarket get your staff working on a deal.

flashnazia

Another thumbs up from me. Number port went through without problems.

frank_potter

I have been with Ovivo mobile for around three months using the Ovivo sim in an Android phone

It is very good for calls and texts however the 3G internet performance seems very slow compared with that of competitors 3 and Tmobile. At times GPRS appears to perform faster than the 3G.

Can't complain really - it is free.

diamonds

Vodafone & o2 are merging backhaul like 3 & T-Mobile did (and Orange joined via the merger) the speed on 3G on Voda will get better.

Doc_N

Just for the record, and to be fair to Ovivo, the problems I had (above) turned out to be a Vodafone signal problem.

The Ovivo data SIM seems to be pretty useless outside strong reception areas. It allows calls to be made and received (odd, that) but data is impossible.

The technical people would have known that, I guess, but it proved impossible to get hold of them, and the CS people did their best, but didn't (understandably, perhaps) know very much about the product.

diamonds

Doc N, lock the modem to 3G only in the software/mobile settings, a poor 3G signal will default to a much stronger 2G signal, thus data will be very slow.

A signal issue so severe would not allow calls/texts so perhaps you are roaming to 2G ?

If that fails to work your connected base station maybe has 3G capacity/data issues & you should report such to Vodafone, you can get a MSE Voda rep to report it to for investigation.

flashnazia

We are happy to announce that as of today, we have increased the free data allowance for all Ovivo Mobile Phone Freedom customers!! Now, each month, you will receive:
100 Free Minutes (Any Network)
100 Free Texts (Any Network)
300MB Free Data
Free Ovivo to Ovivo Calls and Texts outside of your free allowance

Any new customers signing up to our service, or those how have purchased a SIM card from us recently but not activated it yet, will automatically be on our new Price Plans.
All existing and activated customers will see the new allowances take effect the next time your free allowance resets
The OVIVO Team

Made my Monday! So glad I switched.

Herongull

So am I.:D

Why do some people pay for calls, texts and data these days?

So 20th century!

Doc_N

diamonds wrote: »

Doc N, lock the modem to 3G only in the software/mobile settings, a poor 3G signal will default to a much stronger 2G signal, thus data will be very slow.

A signal issue so severe would not allow calls/texts so perhaps you are roaming to 2G ?

If that fails to work your connected base station maybe has 3G capacity/data issues & you should report such to Vodafone, you can get a MSE Voda rep to report it to for investigation.

Thanks for the advice - we don't have 3G coverage at all here (still living in the dark ages!).

What still puzzles me, though, is that the phone works - presumably using 2G. I'd have expected data as well - although obviously much more slowly.