O2 Online Pay & go

Wayne3765

Anyone on the O2 Online Talk Anytime Pay & go tariff ?

My Daughter has a Sony Ericsson locked to o2 and is currently on the pay and go original tariff which is 35 pence per minute for standard peak calls , 10 pence off peak and calls to other mobiles are 50 and 30 pence.

Looking on the O2 site it says that if I text TALKANYTIME to 21300 then it will change to 25p per minute for the first 3 minutes and then 5p per minute after on standard calls and 40p per minute for other networks mobiles but I will also get 50 minutes with a £10 top up every month.

What I'm unsure of is does the £10 top up just pay for

1. The 50 minutes , i.e use 50 minutes and you have no credit left or

2. You have £10 credit to use after your 50 minutes or 1 month from time of top up has gone ?

If the answer is 2 then say the phone was used for two months , 1st month using the free 50 minutes and the 2nd using the £10 credit on the third month when I top up with £10 again will I get the free 50 again for that month and so on ?

bbb_uk

Wayne3765 wrote: »

What I'm unsure of is does the £10 top up just pay for

1. The 50 minutes , i.e use 50 minutes and you have no credit left or

2. You have £10 credit to use after your 50 minutes or 1 month from time of top up has gone ?

If the answer is 2 then say the phone was used for two months , 1st month using the free 50 minutes and the 2nd using the £10 credit on the third month when I top up with £10 again will I get the free 50 again for that month and so on ?

The answer is 2. Basically, as a "thank you" for topping up, o2 will give you your free allowance (whether its the minutes or texts) and you still get to keep your £10 as credit on your phone to use as you like.

If you used 50minutes first month and second month used the credit then when you top-up in your 3rd month you'll get your minutes again.

It generally takes upto 48 hours to get the free mins/txts but most of the time it's sooner than this.

There is one thing you need to know and that is the 50minutes will only ever be given once in a month from date of topping-up. So if you topped-up on 1st July then even after using your minutes and topping-up again, you wouldn't get any new minutes until 1st August as the 1st of the month is known as your anniversary date. If, however, you don't top-up second month but do so on third month then your anniversary date will be whatever date you topped up on in your third month. This is because there is a gap of more than a month between top-ups.

You can actually top-up £10 on 1st July and then again say 7th July and you would get your 50mins for two months. However, don't top-up by £20 on say 1st July because you wont get your two months then as the top-ups have to be on separate occasions.

Does this help?

Wayne3765

bbb_uk wrote: »

Does this help?

Certainly does , thanks very much :beer:.

colin79666

you can find out how much minutes you have left by calling the topup line (usually hotkey 3)

I'm fortunately on the old online tariff so for £10 I get 100mins/texts :dance:

bbb_uk

30111987 wrote: »

I'm fortunately on the old online tariff so for £10 I get 100mins/texts :dance:

Fortunately, I'm on the older tariff of 300texts and 150 off-peak xnet minutes for topping up by £15.

The tariff I'm on didn't last long before they realised it is financial suicide for them so changed it to 100minutes and then it dropped down to 50mins.