Switching network with existing ongoing contract 1 December 2022 at 9:50PM in Mobiles 7 replies 140 views

iMarkeh

Basically I am thinking of switching from O2 to EE as O2 signal has been down right shocking in the past year. I put in a complaint and they refused to give me a fee free exit from my contract as 'congestion is not their fault' (despite the fact it worked fine until the past 6 months so I put it down to them must have making infrastructure changes but anyway).

I have 3 months or so left on my O2 contract. My hopeful plan is to reduce my O2 contract to the lowest that they will offer me £6 (from £17) and then sign up to an EE contract using my existing phone number. Is there any way of doing this or not as I would need my PAC code (to move my number over) mid contract?

Does anyone have any advise on the best way to go about this?

Many thanks.

MikeJXE

I have done it in the past by asking for the pac code then at the supplier asking for number porting, thats a few years ago so not sure now 

flashg67

You can get a PAC at any point - the ones I've had also show the current cost if you then use that PAC. Only thing to check is that you're not signing up to a new minimum term if you change the O2 contract now

MikeJXE

I switched to sim only month rolling with Plusnet who run on EE network

BUFF

iMarkeh said:

I have 3 months or so left on my O2 contract. My hopeful plan is to reduce my O2 contract to the lowest that they will offer me £6 (from £17)

Are you sure that this won't start a new contract period?

flaneurs_lobster

BUFF said:

iMarkeh said:

I have 3 months or so left on my O2 contract. My hopeful plan is to reduce my O2 contract to the lowest that they will offer me £6 (from £17)

Are you sure that this won't start a new contract period?

Quite possibly not, O2 seem to be flexible when amending tariffs. I changed a 20GB/month to 30 y'day, no change to cost or duration of contract. 

iMarkeh

BUFF said:
Are you sure that this won't start a new contract period?

O2 said to me on the phone that I could drop down to only paying £6 until the end of my contract so I am trusting their word.

km1500

strange - doing that would normally trigger a new contract period.

anyway you can probably check.in your app.