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pip08456 11-01-2023 11:47

Migration to O2
 
All VM Mobile customers will be switched tto equivalent O2 plans starting March this year.

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.ph...ans-to-o2.html

BenMcr 11-01-2023 16:09

Re: Migration to O2
 
Some FAQs about it are now online here

https://www.virginmedia.com/help/mobile/your-move-to-o2

Chrysalis 11-01-2023 20:47

Re: Migration to O2
 
There is a clear push to get people on O2, my gig1 is extremely subsidised so they could send me an O2 sim. The subsidy is circa £40 month, they basically killed 70% of the price to send me an O2 sim.

I think O2's poor 4G hit them heavily and this is a means of filling up their customer count again, but looking at the comments on that ispr page, people arent happy with the poor 4G speeds.

pip08456 11-01-2023 21:06

Re: Migration to O2
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Chrysalis (Post 36143576)
There is a clear push to get people on O2, my gig1 is extremely subsidised so they could send me an O2 sim. The subsidy is circa £40 month, they basically killed 70% of the price to send me an O2 sim.

I think O2's poor 4G hit them heavily and this is a means of filling up their customer count again, but looking at the comments on that ispr page, people arent happy with the poor 4G speeds.

Why would you need an O2 sim?

BenMcr 11-01-2023 23:19

Re: Migration to O2
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Chrysalis (Post 36143576)
There is a clear push to get people on O2

All Virgin Mobile SIMs already connect to the O2 radio network.

Chrysalis 12-01-2023 14:01

Re: Migration to O2
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by pip08456 (Post 36143577)
Why would you need an O2 sim?

Luckily I had a use for it, I had a phone with a giffgaff sim which uses the O2 network anyway so its in that now, but even so paying £12 for a sim to get a £40+ discount on my broadband is a no brainer. :)

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Quote:

Originally Posted by BenMcr (Post 36143580)
All Virgin Mobile SIMs already connect to the O2 radio network.

Yep they do now but they used to be vodafone right?

pip08456 12-01-2023 14:09

Re: Migration to O2
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Chrysalis (Post 36143602)
Luckily I had a use for it, I had a phone with a giffgaff sim which uses the O2 network anyway so its in that now, but even so paying £12 for a sim to get a £40+ discount on my broadband is a no brainer. :)

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Yep they do now but they used to be vodafone right?

Using the Vodaphone network with the same SIM so just a matter of reconfig over the air.

See your point re giffgaff SIM.

Tricky Trevor 25-01-2023 08:44

Re: Migration to O2
 
I moved from Virgin to O2 just over a year ago but my wife and son are still on Virgin.
How will they know when they have moved? Will they recieve a text from O2? As I'm the Virgin Media account holder and we have Volt, will my wife and son also qualify for theO2 benefits?

BenMcr 25-01-2023 17:04

Re: Migration to O2
 
Everyone will get full proper notification before the move. It'll be more than a text.

Once numbers are moved over to O2, yes they will qualify for Volt.

Tricky Trevor 26-01-2023 17:05

Re: Migration to O2
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by BenMcr (Post 36144421)
Everyone will get full proper notification before the move. It'll be more than a text.

Once numbers are moved over to O2, yes they will qualify for Volt.

Thank you so much Ben
Helpful and informative as always

vincerooney 05-02-2023 22:58

Re: Migration to O2
 
It says virgin mobile customers moved over to o2 signals at the end of last year? I thought virgin mobile had a contract with Vodafone still? So am I actually using o2 signal currently?

BenMcr 07-02-2023 13:55

Re: Migration to O2
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by vincerooney (Post 36145258)
It says virgin mobile customers moved over to o2 signals at the end of last year? I thought virgin mobile had a contract with Vodafone still? So am I actually using o2 signal currently?

Yes, all SIMs now use the O2 signal.

This next migration is for the airtime plans and payment, so won't change your UK coverage.

vincerooney 07-02-2023 23:11

Re: Migration to O2
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by BenMcr (Post 36145358)
Yes, all SIMs now use the O2 signal.

This next migration is for the airtime plans and payment, so won't change your UK coverage.

cheers Ben so just for clarification my phone is no longer connecting to Vodafone but o2? i wondered why the 5g signal had changed a bit!

vincerooney 29-03-2023 02:11

Re: Migration to O2
 
do we know the timetable for then people switch over to o2 or is it just random between now and the end of the year

crazyronnie 30-03-2023 17:25

Re: Migration to O2
 
as virgin are still selling virgin mobile sim plans...i was wondering after looking through the t&c's it maybe be worth taking out a virgin mobile sim only plan...the data will be doubled when you're switched over to o2 and you wont pay any more. £10 for 30gb data on a 30 day rolling contract doubled to 60gb once taken over to o2 sounds like a good deal to me.


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