Pay as you go service.

[Luke35]

Does anyone know if this is true that o2 mite close there pay as service as I went into the o2 store and they told me that the pay as you go service mite get closed down sometime into future as there they mite closing there 4g service and concentrate on there 5g service and as there pay as you go is a 4g service they wont be able to keep there pay as you go service going?

[MI5]

@Luke35 

Maybe, maybe not.

We've speculated the same here as they now have giffgaff giving 5g and wifi calling etc and there's no money in it for O2.

No one here will know for definite though.

[Luke35]

Oh ok it's just I have not heard anything from o2 them salf I only heard about it from the o2 store them salf about it.

[madasaf1sh]

@Luke35 

The rumours have been around for a while across the industry that not just o2 but other networks might close their PAYG offerings, and leave these to Virtual Networks such as GiffGaff, Voxi and Smarty (these are all owned by the Networks)...

And to be honest I can see it coming sooner than we all think...  but we could all be wrong... 

[Luke35]

They wont be able to close there pay as you go service with letting there customers know first.

[MI5]

Rest assured you will be told and I assume automatically given the choice to move to giffgaff.

[Enlli]

They will need to make a move on 4G Calling if they are going to keep PAYG.

giffgaff say it will take 4 months to supply it to all their customers and O2 have many more. There is only 5 months to the start of O2's 3G shutdown, so O2 will have to move soon one way or another.

[MI5]

No chance of that ever happening.

[Oxonian]

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@Luke35 wrote:

They wont be able to close there pay as you go service with letting there customers know first.

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There is likely to be advance notification of sorts when O2 stop accepting new PAYG customers.

That will signal the beginning of the end. 👍

[MI5]

As said