O2 - Free text to ANY network ANYtime

Mimikyu · 09-02-2008 4:40pm

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theteal · 09-02-2008 4:45pm

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thats a fair point, i just get the impression that meteor are happy ruffling the big bird's feathers and finally getting seriously noticed. . .if they lose a sh*t load of customers then the marketing guys will be hopping with new promos

Mimikyu · 09-02-2008 7:24pm

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Sam Vimes · 09-02-2008 7:43pm

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i don't understand why they're ending the offer in April. i was considering moving until i heard that. why would anyone go to the hassle of changing for an offer that ends in two months???

voyager · 09-02-2008 8:35pm

Would it be that you are eligible to take up the offer for the next 2 months, rather than the offer lasting until then, maybe.

voyager

seanabc · 10-02-2008 11:30am

I switched over to O2 from Meteor because I use my phone almost exclusively for texting so it suits me down to the ground. Yesterday was my first day on O2 and I was happily texting away. Then today I checked my balance and it was gone down by €6. I'm just looking at their web-site now trying to find the small print before I ring customer support. They're probably going to tell me that it starts on Monday or something. I just find it petty and annoying. I'm sure the €6 would have been happier staying in my credit balance rather than in O2s massive vaults.

Edit: I've just called customer support and they said it can take up to 72 hours for the tariff to come into effect, although it should happen within 24 hours. Fair enough, but it's just something to be aware of too.

Sam Vimes · 10-02-2008 12:06pm

voyager wrote: »

Would it be that you are eligible to take up the offer for the next 2 months, rather than the offer lasting until then, maybe.

voyager

maybe. hopefully

Davy · 10-02-2008 3:26pm

part of their advertising line is "free texts for life"

In referring to ‘Life’ in relation to the Free Text for Life promotion, Life means that customers who sign up for the Free Texts for Life offer during the promotional period may continue to avail of free texts whilst they remain an O2 Speak easy customer on the O2 Experience Price Plan. Customers who leave O2 or move to any other O2 tariff plan or promotion will not retain access to or avail of the Promotion.

Sully · 10-02-2008 6:18pm

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Thats one of the big pain in the asses with Vodafone. They always have good offers, but there offers are limited to within their network.

I love their Credit Me service - beats O2s hands down.

seanabc wrote: »

I switched over to O2 from Meteor because I use my phone almost exclusively for texting so it suits me down to the ground. Yesterday was my first day on O2 and I was happily texting away. Then today I checked my balance and it was gone down by €6. I'm just looking at their web-site now trying to find the small print before I ring customer support. They're probably going to tell me that it starts on Monday or something. I just find it petty and annoying. I'm sure the €6 would have been happier staying in my credit balance rather than in O2s massive vaults.

Edit: I've just called customer support and they said it can take up to 72 hours for the tariff to come into effect, although it should happen within 24 hours. Fair enough, but it's just something to be aware of too.

Iv had similar issues. Some tarrifs are instant while others can take 24hours. I assume its delayed due to the weekend or something. This new tarrif for me took a while to activate, but its all going okay now. I think if you ask to change the plan and top up by 20euro you should be sorted.

davton wrote: »

part of their advertising line is "free texts for life"

In referring to ‘Life’ in relation to the Free Text for Life promotion, Life means that customers who sign up for the Free Texts for Life offer during the promotional period may continue to avail of free texts whilst they remain an O2 Speak easy customer on the O2 Experience Price Plan. Customers who leave O2 or move to any other O2 tariff plan or promotion will not retain access to or avail of the Promotion.

Nice marketing plan. Grab em all now, and if they leave, they cant get back on the plan.

Walkman · 10-02-2008 11:40pm

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If meteor started a free text to all networks just like O2's I am sure just loke O2 they would up their call charges for that plan (gotta make money somwhow

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slegs · 11-02-2008 11:21am

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Tis a fairly substantial difference alright on the face of things. That is until you factor in the other call charges that are included in the O2 tariff that you must change too. Tis obviously perfect if you are a text but it would prob hit someone with an average usage profille for quite a few quid.

Either way, it's good to see that likes of Meteor being responsible for O2 and Vodafone having to come out and compete like they are. Will be interesting to see what Meteor do next.

Dont think anybody is arguing that there is no downside to the new O2 plan (i.e. high call charges outside the promotion) but for high texters with low voice call volumes (which this priceplan is aimed at) it is far and away the best in the market

dmn · 11-02-2008 7:49pm

I also rang Meteor asking if they had any plans to launch someone similar to O2's offer and the girl that i was speaking to informed me that because Meteor are not a large international company with huge financial backing like O2, they would not be able to compete with an offer like this at present.

Sad really

Mimikyu · 11-02-2008 8:08pm

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steve 0 · 12-02-2008 1:37pm

As Solitaryman666 said, according to the O2 website you can only sign up to 'Unlimited free texts' or 'My 10 favourite O2 numbers' until 30/04/08.
This means there will only be ONE O2 Speakeasy prepay price plan, O2 Experience, with no major add ons open to new sign ups after this date.
Surely this is madness from O2!

slegs · 12-02-2008 2:37pm

steve 0 wrote: »

As Solitaryman666 said, according to the O2 website you can only sign up to 'Unlimited free texts' or 'My 10 favourite O2 numbers' until 30/04/08.
This means there will only be ONE O2 Speakeasy prepay price plan, O2 Experience, with no major add ons open to new sign ups after this date.
Surely this is madness from O2!

No it just means this particular promotion will end on this date (if not extended). Most likely there will be a new promotion or amendments to this promotion after that.

krudler · 12-02-2008 6:18pm

steve 0 wrote: »

As Solitaryman666 said, according to the O2 website you can only sign up to 'Unlimited free texts' or 'My 10 favourite O2 numbers' until 30/04/08.
This means there will only be ONE O2 Speakeasy prepay price plan, O2 Experience, with no major add ons open to new sign ups after this date.
Surely this is madness from O2!

you can still get the old earlybird and niteowl price plans, and the 20c flatrate one

steve 0 · 12-02-2008 7:44pm

krudler wrote: »

you can still get the old earlybird and niteowl price plans, and the 20c flatrate one

No you can't, they're old price plans now, see here.
If you're on an old plan you can stay on it but you can no longer sign up to them. Only plans available to sign up or move onto are Experience with the option of 1 of the 2 add-ons, see here.

The_Hustler · 12-02-2008 8:09pm

steve 0 wrote: »

No you can't, they're old price plans now, see here.
If you're on an old plan you can stay on it but you can no longer sign up to them. Only plans available to sign up or move onto are Experience with the option of 1 of the 2 add-ons, see here.

Actually that's shocking!

seanabc · 12-02-2008 10:06pm

It's not that shocking. The free text thing is a good offer. It's good for heavy texters and it sounds good to everyone else too. They're bound to be getting lots of sign ups from this promotion and the fact that there's only one tariff to sign up on with two options is nice and simple. The deadline is to create urgency. When this offer runs out they'll have some other hook to catch people on.

squidgey · 26-02-2008 3:48pm

FREE UNLIMITED Texts, Calls, And Picture Messages Tesco to Tesco 24 hours a day when you buy an In Touch Bundle for E11.99 from your credit it lasts 30 days each time!

Great now I can contact less then 1% of the country for free!!!

Actually not even for free for €12 per month. That's AMAZING value. Funny they way they advertise it - it's like saying get the new Dell computer for FREE when you buy a dell mouse and keyboard for €799.

I guess I'll just delete all the numbers in my phonebook and start a new one with all my new tesco friends who have to take a new 089 number because Tesco can't port your number because they're a SUPERMARKET.

Get a grip on reality.

Sam Vimes · 26-02-2008 4:16pm

BlueSkyAngel wrote: »

Shilly shill shill

wow unlimited web browsing with a limit of 20 mb. it really should be illegal to advertise something as unlimited when it has a limit, especially one as low as 20mb.

and i don't know anyone on tesco mobile so free calls to no one don't really appeal to me. i could be wrong here but that sounds an awful lot like a sales pitch. do you work for tesco?

Mimikyu · 26-02-2008 6:49pm

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Sully · 26-02-2008 9:06pm

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So far, this is his first post about Tesco. He was talking about o2 not to long ago. Unless he markets for both o2 and Tesco?

squidgey · 27-02-2008 11:11am

Unless he markets for both o2 and Tesco?

Same company. Tesco is a VPN with O2.

slegs · 27-02-2008 2:13pm

squidgey wrote: »

FREE UNLIMITED Texts, Calls, And Picture Messages Tesco to Tesco 24 hours a day when you buy an In Touch Bundle for E11.99 from your credit it lasts 30 days each time!

Great now I can contact less then 1% of the country for free!!!

Actually not even for free for €12 per month. That's AMAZING value. Funny they way they advertise it - it's like saying get the new Dell computer for FREE when you buy a dell mouse and keyboard for €799.

I guess I'll just delete all the numbers in my phonebook and start a new one with all my new tesco friends who have to take a new 089 number because Tesco can't port your number because they're a SUPERMARKET.

Get a grip on reality.

Tesco can port any number just fine. The form is in the pack when you purchase, you send it back, they call you and organise a time to port.

They have an offer to give some extra credit if you hold onto the 089 number purely as a marketing gimmick. You dont have to take it up.

Also, you dont have to purchase the bundle for the onnet calls if you dont want to and you will still get the lowest flat rate all the time all network call rates on the market.

I all for a bit of operator bashing but lets get some of the facts straight.

steve 0 · 28-04-2008 2:22pm

Bump!
For anyone that is interested in this but hasn't switched yet (especially those enjoying Vodafone to Vodafone free calls & texts all day every day until 01/06) the sign up period is now extended.
It was 30/04, its now Thursday 31/07/08

d-redser · 28-04-2008 11:54pm

Nice one.. I am just waiting for 3 to ring me back with my unlock code and I am so there!!

Hate 3's service :mad: or lack of it.

tayto2009 · 22-04-2009 12:30am

what number do u text free to?

Mimikyu · 22-04-2009 12:39am

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kaimera · 22-04-2009 9:52am

Awesome savings made by me since I changed to the txt bundle.

Last few months I've been going thru ~2 txts a month and with the €20 a month required I've had lots of credit for calls and pre-pay web browsing/google maps directions.

I was going thru so many txts that when I rang o2 to talk about perhaps changing to billpay I was told "no, it would cost you more"

Rory Farrell · 13-02-2010 9:21pm

i find 02 have come along way , they aren't the cheapest as we all know , but i find theyre offers such as the 02 daily treats , very good! and in my opinion a reason to stick with the network , plus i wanted an iphone!
theyre internet charges are way to expensive i find myself looking for free wifi so i can check emails and download apps and games , a bit annoying!

tman · 13-02-2010 9:51pm

I haven't really been paying attention to Irish price plans, but can't believe that they get away with some of this!
o2 in the UK had an offer just before Christmas - unlimited texts and internet if you top up by £15 a month.
I've swapped over to a pay monthly, sim only one now - £20 for 700 minutes, 700 texts and a blackberry data plan (the last bit can be changed to unlimited internet/texts instead)

Rip off Ireland is still alive and kicking I see:(

O2_Daryll · 16-02-2010 6:31pm

If any of you need any prepaid sim cards for porting to O2 PM with your number and I can send some out for you. I have a good few here in stock right now.

dougs09 · 01-03-2010 7:38pm

tman wrote: »

I haven't really been paying attention to Irish price plans, but can't believe that they get away with some of this!
o2 in the UK had an offer just before Christmas - unlimited texts and internet if you top up by £15 a month.
I've swapped over to a pay monthly, sim only one now - £20 for 700 minutes, 700 texts and a blackberry data plan (the last bit can be changed to unlimited internet/texts instead)

Rip off Ireland is still alive and kicking I see:(

yep in the uk i beleive they've now switched over to free unlimited texts to all contract users, i've checked o2.ie and i can't find owt there, so can only assume they havent brought it in for us.

but o2 rang me mate the other day, who is coming near the end of his contract, and tried to get him to stay with them by offering him free unlimted texts to any network, i'm so temted to just ring em up and ask them is that available to us, and if so, can i go on it now rather then wait till my contract is up, i'd even be tempted to tell them that i simply can't afford it, and that i'm at the brink of just cancelling my contract with them, cause basically, can't belive they;ve continued to rip us off here when offeriing uk users much better terms.

hickory · 01-03-2010 8:51pm

It has nothing to do with rip off Ireland, they are totally different markets governed by different regulators, the companies paid different amounts for their licences, receive different interconnect rates but one of the major differences is the size of the market after all Ireland has 4 million people versus 61 million in the UK therefore there is more money to be made in the UK

ardmacha · 01-03-2010 10:29pm

It has nothing to do with rip off Ireland, they are totally different markets governed by different regulators, the companies paid different amounts for their licences, receive different interconnect rates but one of the major differences is the size of the market after all Ireland has 4 million people versus 61 million in the UK therefore there is more money to be made in the UK

This type of thing is always the defence of price gouging. The companies paid different amounts for the licences, i.e. more in the UK, not sure how that justifies things. Different interconnect rates largely net out between providers. As for the size of the country, this means that in the UK your minutes can be used to call 10 times as many phones as here, I am not sure how that justifies tariffs giving you more minutes. Plenty of smaller countries have reasonable costs for mobile telephony. As for the regulator is the defence that the government does not force companies to provide comparable value?

hickory · 01-03-2010 10:38pm

As for the size of the country, this means that in the UK your minutes can be used to call 10 times as many phones as here, I am not sure how that justifies tariffs giving you more minutes.[/QUOTE]

Maybe because if you have 10% of the market you have 6 million people in the UK versus 400k in Ireland.

Luno · 01-03-2010 10:46pm

Eh is it just me but don't vodafone have this offer but without the extra 10 euro for calls aswell...

ardmacha · 01-03-2010 10:53pm

Maybe because if you have 10% of the market you have 6 million people in the UK versus 400k in Ireland.

So why are mobiles better value in the likes of Finland or Singapore?

dougs09 · 02-03-2010 2:05am

either way. 02 are ripping us off, they offer this deal to pre pay customers, what the hell is different from them to someoen who pays a contract each month, i;m giving them X amount of money each month, so why can't they throw in unlimited texts to me, when they can offer it to ssomeone who puts 20 euro in,

bryaner · 03-03-2010 12:31am

dougs09 wrote: »

either way. 02 are ripping us off, they offer this deal to pre pay customers, what the hell is different from them to someoen who pays a contract each month, i;m giving them X amount of money each month, so why can't they throw in unlimited texts to me, when they can offer it to ssomeone who puts 20 euro in,

Well then ditch your contract

Sitec · 03-12-2010 2:47am

Are free texts available to customers on prepay, if they top up 20e a month? like meteor?

Davy · 03-12-2010 8:33am

Sitec wrote: »

Are free texts available to customers on prepay, if they top up 20e a month? like meteor?

Afraid so.

You use very little credit each month?

Might be better with tesco maybe, or if you do stick with o2 that you just topup every second month. Topup €20, get your free 30 days of texts, then just use the €20 credit till its zero and purchase again. This works a lot better since they changed the terms, as before it went by a calender month, so it wouldnt be practical to do this.

Sitec · 03-12-2010 5:30pm

Davy wrote: »

Afraid so.

You use very little credit each month?

Might be better with tesco maybe, or if you do stick with o2 that you just topup every second month. Topup €20, get your free 30 days of texts, then just use the €20 credit till its zero and purchase again. This works a lot better since they changed the terms, as before it went by a calender month, so it wouldnt be practical to do this.

Thanks, what do i have to do to activate free texts? Just top up 20e? Are they free to all networks?

Davy · 03-12-2010 5:39pm

Sitec wrote: »

Thanks, what do i have to do to activate free texts? Just top up 20e? Are they free to all networks?

Login to here: https://www.o2online.ie/NASApp/MyAccount/ChangePricePlanServlet.htm

And select then plan you want:

Plus= free o2 calls and texts,

OR

More = free texts to any network.

After you have done this, topup by €20. It should be activated after a few hours

Sitec · 03-12-2010 6:14pm

The offer is over I think.:mad:

Davy · 03-12-2010 6:15pm

Sitec wrote: »

The offer is over I think.:mad:

Its not, just says it is

Sitec · 05-12-2010 5:33am

Davy wrote: »

Its not, just says it is

How do i go about getting the offer Dave? Cant do it online tried for a while. Should I just ring them?

Davy · 05-12-2010 10:16am

Ye customer care will do it for you.

O2 - Free text to ANY network ANYtime

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