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O2 Home
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Sebby
2003-11-14 15:49:52 UTC
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I bought an O2 Original Pay & Go SIM card in addition to my Orange contract,
so that I can make cheap 2p/minute calls to O2 and landlines off-peak.
Little did I know that they have since changed their rates!

Anyhow, I had someone from O2 on the phone today giving me details of O2
Home. It seems a pretty good deal for £4.99/month to get 250 off-peak
minutes. This is the equivalent of 2p/minute. The only disadvantage that I
can see is that it is from one postcode only.

Any views?
manckevin
2003-11-14 16:56:41 UTC
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"Sebby" <***@m> wrote in message news:3fb4f9a7$0$249$***@news-text.dial.pipex.com...
| I bought an O2 Original Pay & Go SIM card in addition to my Orange
contract,
| so that I can make cheap 2p/minute calls to O2 and landlines off-peak.
| Little did I know that they have since changed their rates!
|
| Anyhow, I had someone from O2 on the phone today giving me details of O2
| Home. It seems a pretty good deal for £4.99/month to get 250 off-peak
| minutes. This is the equivalent of 2p/minute. The only disadvantage that I
| can see is that it is from one postcode only.
|
| Any views?

I signed up for it, and got my 2nd and 3rd months free. With sleeping in at
work (a ten minute walk away from home) and having to stay in contact with
the then missus, it proved invaluable. If you make off-peak calls, I'd
certainly say it's well worth it.

Kevin
Steve Terry
2003-11-15 05:20:33 UTC
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Post by Sebby
I bought an O2 Original Pay & Go SIM card in addition to my Orange contract,
so that I can make cheap 2p/minute calls to O2 and landlines off-peak.
Little did I know that they have since changed their rates!
Anyhow, I had someone from O2 on the phone today giving me details of O2
Home. It seems a pretty good deal for £4.99/month to get 250 off-peak
minutes. This is the equivalent of 2p/minute. The only disadvantage that I
can see is that it is from one postcode only.
Any views?
It's a way of getting you to pay o2 a fiver a month extra for what you already
had,
and restricted from home only.

If you were willing to take out a contract you could have 400mins anytime
for 4 months, and 750mins on net offpeak for 8 months, and a free phone.
For a total of less than Zero cost

Steve Terry
Sebby
2003-11-15 13:00:00 UTC
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Post by Steve Terry
It's a way of getting you to pay o2 a fiver a month extra for what you already
had,
and restricted from home only.
The restriction from home is a down point, but paying them £5 isn't bad
considering that I'm not on the Talkalot tariff and wouldn't be topping up
with £10/month, so having to pay £5 seems not too bad...
Post by Steve Terry
If you were willing to take out a contract you could have 400mins anytime
for 4 months, and 750mins on net offpeak for 8 months, and a free phone.
For a total of less than Zero cost
I have an Orange contract as well, and I wanted the O2 Original Pay & Go
just to call O2 mobiles off-peak. Seeing that O2 changed the Original tariff
rates, O2 Home is really the only way to make 2p/min off-peak calls to O2
mobiles, is it not?
Steve Terry
2003-11-15 15:15:57 UTC
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Post by Steve Terry
Post by Steve Terry
It's a way of getting you to pay o2 a fiver a month extra for what you
already
Post by Steve Terry
had,
and restricted from home only.
The restriction from home is a down point, but paying them £5 isn't bad
considering that I'm not on the Talkalot tariff and wouldn't be topping up
with £10/month, so having to pay £5 seems not too bad...
5quid extra for the same service isn't as good as zero
Post by Steve Terry
Post by Steve Terry
If you were willing to take out a contract you could have 400mins anytime
for 4 months, and 750mins on net offpeak for 8 months, and a free phone.
For a total of less than Zero cost
I have an Orange contract as well, and I wanted the O2 Original Pay & Go
just to call O2 mobiles off-peak. Seeing that O2 changed the Original tariff
rates, O2 Home is really the only way to make 2p/min off-peak calls to O2
mobiles, is it not?
It's possible to make 400 mins a month anytime calls including to O2
for a total cost of Zero

Steve Terry
Sebby
2003-11-15 16:04:49 UTC
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Post by Steve Terry
It's possible to make 400 mins a month anytime calls including to O2
for a total cost of Zero
How?
manckevin
2003-11-16 01:03:56 UTC
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"Sebby" <***@m> wrote in message news:3fb64ea5$0$261$***@news-text.dial.pipex.com...
| Steve Terry wrote:
|
| > It's possible to make 400 mins a month anytime calls including to O2
| > for a total cost of Zero
|
| How?

Ditto!
Steve Terry
2003-11-17 06:42:05 UTC
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Post by Steve Terry
It's possible to make 400 mins a month anytime calls including to O2
for a total cost of Zero
How?
OSPS have 300quid cashback on 3510i on OVP O2 400 at 45quid
a month, after 120 days change to OVP T Mobile FT750
at 14quid a month for the last 8 months (rounded up to the nearest penny)
(Or HSData tariff for 4 quid less if you don't want the off-peak mins)

45quid X 4 = 180 (+ 14 x 8 = 112) total 292quid - 300 cashback,
so Orange pay you 8 quid to take the 3510i away :-)

Or YP400 instead at 50quid a month if you want 2000 inc text.

Both OVP O2 400 and OVP TM FT750 have 50 free text a month

http://www.onestopphoneshop.co.uk/orange.htm

I would recommend calling OSPS sales 0800 034 5678 rather than online

If you buy a phone from them ?
Please quote my recommend a friend number to them, 284468
So I get an Argos voucher

Thanks
Steve Terry

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