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snowmen's avatar
snowmen
On our wavelength
10 months ago

Volt and O2 eligible products

Hi,

Not sure if I am posting this in the right place - if not please feel free to move. I have found this community to be a very helpful resource.

I have a current deal with virgin media including a £25 unlimited sim.

The O2 part of that contract expires in a week or so.

What other O2 sims can I go on to to retain volt benefits with my virgin media package? Is it any monthly O2 sim contract excluding PAYG?

Also, if i am pricing round I get better deals using Uswitch which seems to route through the main O2 website for confirmation. Is this an acceptable way of getting an O2 product that would be eligible for Volt benefits?

Thanks!

  • unisoft's avatar
    unisoft
    Knows their stuff

    any monthly O2 SIM. Doesn't have to be part of a bundle package from VM. Must be in same name and address though (I don't think this has changed). My own was from uswitch.com and worked fine (when I was a VM customer). Now I have left VM I still have double data on my O2 SIM but I am giving that the boot in favour of uncapped data speed on EE using 1pmobile, with voLTE, 5G and WiFi calling and all frequency bands. 25GB for £10 no contract. The difference was amazing!!! Slo2 was just too average with data speeds like ADSL mostly everywhere I went from Kent to London to East Anglia with the odd cell supporting 40mbps but usually 3mbps -12mbps on average. Even on 5G, the odd cell was 170mbps+ but most were 8-30mbps! Those were the range of speeds achieved, but most common was 8mbps or lower....

    • snowmen's avatar
      snowmen
      On our wavelength

      Thanks for the reply and useful information!

      Good to know any monthly sim will do and you can do it through uswitch which offer better deals than the standalone O2 website.

      • unisoft's avatar
        unisoft
        Knows their stuff

        snowmen wrote:

        Thanks for the reply and useful information!

        Good to know any monthly sim will do and you can do it through uswitch which offer better deals than the standalone O2 website.


        I changed several times (my Tariff) whilst in contract using USWITCH.com every time. It just restarts a new 12 month contract and nulls the old if you login during the checkout process (as O2 checkout by that stage). O2 a few months ago added a warning about early termination charges, but it gets zeroed out in the checkout confirmation page (as they advertise you can change your tariff at any time so to action the warning could be trouble for them). With uswitch.com, you'll get the option to login to your O2 account, and to select that you don't want a new SIM sent.