Ovivo New Network. 200 minutes 200 Texts Free indefinitely.

Wafflewoo

Moved over and saved over £30 a month, no complaints here!

You can find them within the footer and 'Our Offer' page :j:money:

Herongull wrote: »

I've studied the terms and conditions. All seems completely reasonable if you don't mind the occasional targeted advert when browsing. I've sent off for a sim.

Things to note:

1/ You pay £5 at the point at which order the sim (but that will give you £5 credit for any chargeable calls (eg calls outside your free allowance) you use.

2/ You don't need to ever pay them anything more if you say within your limits.

3/They may suspend the service if you don't use it for a period of 60 days, but as long as you make a call, text or use data (chargeable or free) it won't be suspended.

4/If you do get suspended as per above, the service can be terminated if it remains inactive for a further 120 days without topping up or you only use the free calls.

5/All paid for credits must be used within 360 days otherwise they expire.

So as long as you use the (free) service at least once every 2 months, you don't need to pay them anything ever again (as long as you stay within the monthly free limits (200 minutes, 200 texts, 512MB).

You can use the £5 credit when you go on holiday - the calls, texts, and data abroad do use (paid for) credit, but the roaming charges are generally the same or cheaper than other networks.

If you move your existing number to Ovivo you get another £5 credit (eg for use when roaming) and you get more credit by recommending friends.

If you haven't got a smartphone, you can get a nice one for less than £50 eg T-mobile Vivacity

Or if you are lucky you may get a T-mobile Rapport in Asda for £19 - depends on the store.

The Rapport costs £5 to unlock. The Vivacity can be unlocked for free.

Or get a used smartphone on ebay

Herongull

My sim arrived yesterday (ordered over the weekend), and everything is up and running. As I've rooted my phone, the Tweakker app they suggest for setting up your phone for data, didn't work, but the nice man from Ovivo was very helpful and sorted it all out for me.:)

They are getting a better app that will work on rooted phones by the end of the month.

I'm porting my GG number across tomorrow.

No more top ups for me every again. :j

bedpotato_2

Herongull wrote: »

No more top ups for me every [sic] again. :j

I think you're being slightly over-optimistic about the life expectancy of this company!

I have got an Ovivo SIM myself but am not going to port my usual number to it and certainly do not expect a company to supply me with free calls, texts, and data for the rest of my LIFE! If they did that for everyone, they would go bust! Hence the predictions that they will not last for very long.

Herongull

Well even if the company goes bust after a few years I will have saved plenty.

Its business model may work, and there may be other similar providers to move to if this one eventually goes down.

It will survive as long as the company has low costs and a cheap enough deal from vodaphone - there is lots of spare capacity around so it will have been in a good negotiating position - and the targeted adverts generate adequate income to cover its costs.

AndysDad

I've been with Ovivo now for a couple of months and use very few minutes of my allowance but surf the net for say 10-15 minutes a day using 3g (alot more using Wi-fi) but it never seems to use any of my data allowance.How can this 3G connection not use any of my data allowance.Someone has told me its only data if I'm downloading data not surfing the net,is this true.

cruz99

Porting the number is no problem even if they cease to trade you can still get the pac code as they use vodafone.

Been using it for about 6 weeks with no problems. Data allowance does not go down on the Ovivo system as they are having trouble with it and are trying to fix it. They have already said that if you use your allowance there will be no bill shock until they fix the problem. Hence at the moment it's unlimited free data.....wahey!!!

This should be top of the pops on here and hotukdeals as its the only deal that saves you money. Far better than the usual buy 9million donuts get 3 free stuff you usually see.

Contracts are for mugs

thor

cruz99 wrote: »

Porting the number is no problem even if they cease to trade you can still get the pac code as they use vodafone.

Can anyone confirm if this is true? Will vodafone have to honour a PAC request?

hillendale

Hi
I'm currently on the old t-mobile £7.50 a month deal
600 xnet mins
Unlimited landline
500 SMS
3gb data
Just nearing my 2 yr on this deal and it's been great so far but I looking to move to Canada in the next few months so even though the t-mobile is a really good deal currently cost me around £8.50 a month
I don't really want to be paying for a contract if I not using it. My current contract has about 40 days left to run. Thing t-mobile only renewed the deal last year provided I signed a 12 month deal and I don't reall y want to go down that road again.
I was thinking of going down the ovivo route.
PS I use HulloMail on iPhone so my voice mails are just emailed to me
so if I try an ovivo would hopefully carry on with hullo provided the call forwarding to HulloMail as its a landline number.

Any thoughts appreciated ............

sdduk

HulloMail does not work on Ovivo

http://ovivomobile.com/help-centre/help-help/?view=644#q644

Have a look on there website.

hillendale

Only other option would be to access official Ovivo voicemail maybe say via Skype call to ovivo mailbox whist over seas
Any thoughts