Ovivo New Network. 200 minutes 200 Texts Free indefinitely.

alanwsg

Stylehutz wrote: »

Sorry bit of a technophobe and can't go through all the thread.
Can someone just confirm that you don't need a smartphone to take this deal. Just want to use for calls and odd text or two
Cheers

Correct, a "Dumb phone" will work just fine.

ioscorpio

Martin discussed Ovivo on Daybreak this morning but mispronounced it
http://www.itv.com/daybreak/money/a-railcard-for-couples 3 mins in
On Twitter Ovivo tweets
Great to see OVIVO on @Daybreak this morning! Here, we like to pronounce it O-VEE-VO

MikeWhite

Gosh Martin's quick off the mark, not!

wakeupalarm

Over 50,000 customers now for Ovivo according to this article.

http://www.mobilenewscwp.co.uk/2014/03/04/ovivo-raising-3m-as-it-plots-new-era-for-airtime-tariffs/

Yorkie1

Is there an increased risk of malware attack on your phone through Ovivo?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26447423 where the BBC says

Adverts on websites are now the biggest source of malware on mobile phones, according to a study.

Or will the adverts promoted through the Ovivo service be checked for malware etc?

JDPower

Yorkie1 wrote: »

Is there an increased risk of malware attack on your phone through Ovivo?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26447423 where the BBC says

Or will the adverts promoted through the Ovivo service be checked for malware etc?

As long as you don't click on ads you'll be fine. Can't say if Ovivo has any checks in place on the ads that are served through it's ad servers but from what I gather the ad pages are fairly obvious so you'd hardly click on them by accident even if they were malicious. Most malicious ads try to make themselves look like part of a webpage (eg fake download buttons on legitimate software download sites), or deceive/entice in some other way, so you are far more likely in my opinion to get malware from a site you visit, not the Ovivo ad page.

londonTiger

wakeupalarm wrote: »

For the cost of any remaining balance on your Ovivo account or maybe a £20 charge?

I'd accept that any day. Think of the money you save from it month in month out.

londonTiger

JDPower wrote: »

As long as you don't click on ads you'll be fine.

I dont know about that. I'd click the customary ad once in a while - that's what's paying for the service.

grayme-m

Yorkie1 wrote: »

Is there an increased risk of malware attack on your phone through Ovivo?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26447423 where the BBC says

Or will the adverts promoted through the Ovivo service be checked for malware etc?

I'd say the kind of adverts they are warning against are those that you get in apps written by individuals and published on the various app stores; these can therefore be written by unscrupulous peeps.

I seriously doubt Ovivo's been set up to harvest phone data.

Doc_N

londonTiger wrote: »

....... If you trust them enough with all your private information and data transmission......

I'm not at all sure I do. It's a good point, and one which very few people have picked up on.