@Wizard71 Just seems like a big mess to me
When you've just signed a mega-merger agreement, and told your investors of the VAST potential for cross selling and merger savings, they expect you to provide evidence that the two companies customer bases are merging. In the short term VMO2's two operating businesses are stuck on totally different IT systems, and have customers all signed up to completely different T&Cs, and VM probably have certain legal obligations to keep running VM Mobile across the Vodafone infrastructure for another few years. So a genuine merger of operations, systems and customer service is years away yet.
Volt fills the gap and is a very good offer: if people sign up it shows the investors that the merger is delivering results, it creates a very attractive offer for those customers, and it helps make it less attractive for either VM or O2 customers to switch supplier and then lose the Volt benefits, even for a nominally cheaper deal elsewhere. There's reasons for not making the offer open to Virgin Media Mobile customers, in that VM no longer want that as a separate business any more (with half the money being paid to Vodafone), and they'd rather customers quietly left, but only if joining O2.
I'd say don't look a gift horse in the mouth, sign up for Volt.
