Ovivo & Non-Smart Phones

alanwsg

I'm looking at switching to Ovivo from O2, a few questions...

-- My partner has a Non-Smart Phone (ye olde Nokia 3210), can she use Ovivo as well? Their website say they support Non-Smart Phones, but I can't see how they ever make money, after all, she will never see their adverts as she can't browse the web on that phone.

-- I have around £50 credit on my O2 PAYG account, I guess I'm going to lose this or is there some way of keeping/transferring/cashing-it-in?

-- This all seems a bit too good to be true, which usually means it is: where's the catch?

grumbler

1. Yes
2. You can recover some: selling sim credit
3. No catches

mikegahan

I have an ovivo account and the standards are very high considering that the basic freedom plan is free, and ideal for small users. THE ONLY WORRY IS THAT oVIVO may fold but if you are not paying for it there is no real loss.

Im_just_careful

If you ever holiday abroad and use a smart phone there, you might find the o2 roaming data costs better than Ovivo. I have a Vodafone SIM just for use on holiday abroad.

I'm trying Ovivo in an unlocked android phone at the moment and it is fine for data, I've not actually used any calls.

mije1983

alanwsg wrote: »

-- I have around £50 credit on my O2 PAYG account, I guess I'm going to lose this or is there some way of keeping/transferring/cashing-it-in?

As grumbler said, you can get some of the value back, but would it not make more sense to use up the credit you have before you move to Ovivo?

alanwsg

mije1983 wrote: »

As grumbler said, you can get some of the value back, but would it not make more sense to use up the credit you have before you move to Ovivo?

Well .... not really.
I hardly make any phone calls, most of my use is text & web.

I could stop paying my £10/month to O2 and use the £50 up in web charges (would last around 2 months), but as I would get that free anyway with Ovivo it doesn't really make any difference.


-- I still don't see how they make money out of someone with a non-smart phone, any ideas?

grumbler

They simply don't.
Even with a smartphone I've seen only one ad during 6 months - that I skipped after 2 seconds. I don't use it a lot for browsing though.

d123

grumbler wrote: »

They simply don't.
Even with a smartphone I've seen only one ad during 6 months - that I skipped after 2 seconds. I don't use it a lot for browsing though.

Funny you say that, my Ovivo sim isn't my main line (I've just beaten T-Mobile at CISAS and won an early termination, so that might change) and I've probably seen one set of ads since getting the card last August.

I was just thinking I should allow the phone to do a set of ads a day to help Ovivo get a bit of income from me. If we all did so, the chances of them going under lessens.

Roger1

alanwsg wrote: »

-- My partner has a Non-Smart Phone (ye olde Nokia 3210), can she use Ovivo as well?

grumbler wrote: »

1. Yes

We have two mobiles both using Ovivo. We had an e-mail, like everyone else I guess, telling us that if we didn't change the APN settings, we'd lose the service.

I changed mine but can't change the APN settings on my wife's old Samsung SGH-A800. She's happy with the phone and doesn't want a new one. She only uses the phone for phone calls, no texts or data. Any idea how to change the settings, or won't it be necessary to continue the service?

Thanks for advice.

luci

I think they mean lose the data service, not the calls and texts service.