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@Crl123 This is not O2. This is a customer community. If you want to speak to customer service, please see this link: https://www.o2.co.uk/contactus
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@Crl123 wrote:Saw a deal from EE for unlimited minutes and unlimited texts with 50gb of 4g data for £43.00 a month with an upfront cost of £112.99 on a 24 month contract. I was wondering if you offer anything like this?
That sounds like my offer from mobilephonesdirect, except i had no upfront cost for a OnePlus 6T in Jan, @Crl123 - give them a shout.
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@Anonymous wrote:
If you do o2 with a 3rd party though you won’t have the perks you get O2 Refresh
The main perk of O2 Refresh being you can choose to pay off the remaining (slightly higher than market prices) balance on your handset (total O2 handset price divided by months in contract (12 to 36 months), and then change your airtime to something more closely approximating your needs/usage.
True, @Anonymous.
That said, so long as you feel you can keep up payments of a combined handset/tariff bundle for the contract duration, you will get the handset slightly cheaper than the O2 price at the contract term.
Swings and roundabouts... 
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Paying off the handset early or upgrading early is one advantage of Refresh but there is another big advantage nin that once the device is paid off, you pay only the airtime whereas taking a contract elsewhere and payments don't reduce after the minimum period.
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@jonsie wrote:Paying off the handset early or upgrading early is one advantage of Refresh but there is another big advantage nin that once the device is paid off, you pay only the airtime whereas taking a contract elsewhere and payments don't reduce after the minimum period.
This is also true of Refresh, @jonsie . That said, it is no problem at the end of a 2-year non-Refresh contract to move to another contract or back to an O2 Refresh Contract. The downside of a non-Refresh contract is making sure you're aware of the contract end-date and then plan to cancel or upgrade on the second anniversary thereof (or even the third annversary, as you can spread a Refresh contract across 36 months now if you so wish - not mentioning the normal 2-year warranty on handsets kinda conflicts with that approach, of course... ssssh!).
I've had one Refresh Contract - it seemed like a good deal at the time, and whilst I tried to upgrade to another one at the end of that one, so I could avail of my employer's participation in the O2 Open discount scheme a second time, I still found it much cheaper, for the duration of the new non-Refresh contract, to go elsewhere than O2 themselves.
A couple of people here in the Community were very helpful as I navigated that particular upgrade, they know who they are! 
@Crl123 - I guess my message is: look around, search the web - don't just assume that O2 is more competitive than any other reputable mobile phone supplier out there!
