11-01-2023, 10:47
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Sad Doig Fan!
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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
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11-01-2023, 15:09
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Virgin Media Staff
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Re: Migration to O2
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11-01-2023, 19:47
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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.
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11-01-2023, 20:06
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Re: Migration to O2
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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
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.
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Why would you need an O2 sim?
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11-01-2023, 22:19
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Re: Migration to O2
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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
There is a clear push to get people on O2
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All Virgin Mobile SIMs already connect to the O2 radio network.
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12-01-2023, 13:01
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Re: Migration to O2
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Originally Posted by pip08456
Why would you need an O2 sim?
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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. ![Smilie](images/smilies/smile.gif)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BenMcr
All Virgin Mobile SIMs already connect to the O2 radio network.
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Yep they do now but they used to be vodafone right?
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12-01-2023, 13:09
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Re: Migration to O2
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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
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. ![Smilie](images/smilies/smile.gif)
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Yep they do now but they used to be vodafone right?
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Using the Vodaphone network with the same SIM so just a matter of reconfig over the air.
See your point re giffgaff SIM.
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25-01-2023, 07:44
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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?
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25-01-2023, 16:04
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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.
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26-01-2023, 16:05
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Re: Migration to O2
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Originally Posted by BenMcr
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.
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Thank you so much Ben
Helpful and informative as always
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05-02-2023, 21:58
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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?
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07-02-2023, 12:55
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Re: Migration to O2
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Originally Posted by vincerooney
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?
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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.
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07-02-2023, 22:11
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Re: Migration to O2
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Originally Posted by BenMcr
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.
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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!
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29-03-2023, 01:11
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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
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30-03-2023, 16:25
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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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