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Au revoir O2 - anyone else to Tesco ?

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:54:40 GMT

well, despite not wanting to leave O2, after being with them since iPhone 1, I failed to see how me paying the £35 for 12 months tariff from Tesco on the iPhone 4 offering considerably more minutes and data for less of a tie in (with just a small premium for the phone) wasn't the way to go
12mths, £35 per month, 750 mins ultd txts, ultd wifi, 1gb data - and yes only 12 MONTHS contract
Remarkably, O2 retentions could offer nothing, even tho' Tesco network is O2 ?
Picked up the phone in store in Sunbury on Friday, the 3 guys in front of me were also moving from O2 and 1 guy in the queue even worked for CPW !!!
so I'm now on Tesco Mobile with a shiny new iPhone 4 with my old O2 number having been ported over today

thanks O2, your loss

only 11 months til iPhone 5 !!! lol

Re: Au revoir O2 - anyone else to Tesco ?

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:13:01 GMT

well, despite not wanting to leave O2, after being with them since iPhone 1, I failed to see how me paying the £35 for 12 months tariff from Tesco on the iPhone 4 offering considerably more minutes and data for less of a tie in (with just a small premium for the phone) wasn't the way to go
12mths, £35 per month, 750 mins ultd txts, ultd wifi, 1gb data - and yes only 12 MONTHS contract
Remarkably, O2 retentions could offer nothing, even tho' Tesco network is O2 ?
Picked up the phone in store in Sunbury on Friday, the 3 guys in front of me were also moving from O2 and 1 guy in the queue even worked for CPW !!!
so I'm now on Tesco Mobile with a shiny new iPhone 4 with my old O2 number having been ported over today
thanks O2, your loss
only 11 months til iPhone 5 !!! lol

That is excellent value, particularly if it is important to you to change your handset every 12 months.

Was the "small premium" for the phone £229?

Au revoir O2 - anyone else to Tesco ?

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:35:18 GMT

Yes it was £229 not that much more than O2
It's more about having the choice after 12 months really
Well and more minutes, data etc for the same money

Au revoir O2 - anyone else to Tesco ?

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:56:18 GMT

Why is it O2's loss?
Your still paying Tesco, who pay O2, really there is no loss but O2 do have more overheads than tesco, like the entire network to maintain and upgrade (plus those new phones to test)

Au revoir O2 - anyone else to Tesco ?

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:48:17 GMT

Yup . .I too am off to Tesco, ditching 02! Don't see the point in paying £35 pr month when you're not getting as much as what Tesco is offering for the same price!!! Been with 02 for 8yrs, but it's bon voyage from moi too in August.

Au revoir O2 - anyone else to Tesco ?

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:18:22 GMT

Why is it O2's loss?
Your still paying Tesco, who pay O2, really there is no loss but O2 do have more overheads than tesco, like the entire network to maintain and upgrade (plus those new phones to test)

Very true, the whole of Tesco mobile is run by o2 and o2 take a big slice of the profits. When you call Tesco mobile customer services you're actually speaking to an employee of o2.

Au revoir O2 - anyone else to Tesco ?

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:11:11 GMT

Why is it O2's loss?
Your still paying Tesco, who pay O2, really there is no loss but O2 do have more overheads than tesco, like the entire network to maintain and upgrade (plus those new phones to test)

Why ? simple maths really, O2 were getting £35 per month from me, they now get nothing
Tesco, I believe, pay a sum of money to O2 per year for the use of the network
I now pay Tesco £35 per month
Even if Tesco had to pay O2 a commission every month per connection, it wouldn't be the full £35
So therefore it's always O2s loss

I feel for O2 with their huge overheads and costs, have you seen their profit ??
but I'm not paying for it if I don't have to

perhaps they need to review the definition of the word retentions ? :womanindifferent:

being in sales myself, of high end technology, I am stunned at their apparent blinkered approach, still, not my concern anymore

Au revoir O2 - anyone else to Tesco ?

Anonymous — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:00:57 GMT

Would love to join Tesco (if they had any ****** iPhone 4's).
In fact, at the moment the big stores have like 3 or 4 phone's per ship at the most, and those are few and far between. Of course as soon as they are shipped, they are snapped up. The £229 deal is the best 16gb deal out there by far. I however want the 32 gb £299 deal.
It's a toss up between O2 with O2 Open or Tesco..... and looks like the latter given O2 apparently hate new customers right now.

Au revoir O2 - anyone else to Tesco ?

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:26:38 GMT

I'm going to Vodafone.

I might get a network signal then.

Au revoir O2 - anyone else to Tesco ?

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:40:52 GMT

Nice sharing!!!!!