[roughbeast]

All three numbers on my account have now switched over to O2, however there have been some disconcerting messages.

1. Repeatedly messages have been received by may family telling them to follow a link if they want to keep their current number. The link leads to a form that asks for the number to be kept and then also asks for a PAC number. Since we are not voluntarily switching from Virgin Mobile to O2, this seems a bizarre request. We have chosen to ignore the whole thing and assume that our numbers will be kept anyway.

2. All three have us, even though two of us have not fully paid for our handsets with Virgin Media, have been told that we are free to upgrade. The assumption we made was that O2 was somehow absorbing the cost of our current phone to get us to spend even more on a new phone. We even started looking at what phones we could have. Today we got a message reminding us that if we upgraded our phones now, we would still have to pay off our Virgin Media contract. Obvious really! So, why did they offer us upgrades anyway? I must say that todays reminder did feel like a hastily posted afterthought, O2 realising that they had created a rush for new phones that was built on a misapprehension.