O2 keeps taking my money without my permission

[Anonymous]

I just got a new 02 pay as you go account and 02 keeps taking my money and "giving" me in return "data" that I neither want or need.

How do I stop them doing this? 

How do I get my money back?

[Anonymous]

HI @Anonymous and welcome to the Community Forum,

What your being charged is the Web Daily fee O2 charge if you either do not have a data allowance in your tariff or if a person uses up their data allowance and connects to o2's data services.

You have a couple of options.

If you want to start using O2's Mobile Data Internet then add a bolt on or change your current tariff to one with a data allowance within it, this can be done via online MyO2, Live Chat http://www.o2.co.uk/mobile/contactus or ringing CS on 4445.

Or if you don't want to use o2's mobile Internet services then turn off "Mobile Data" in your phones settings or intentionally change the APN settings in the phone so it never connects.  This link shows you what APN settings are : http://www.geeksquad.co.uk/articles/chapter/595-04-how-to-set-apn-settings-for-the-02-mobile-network

The web daily is £1 per day for 50mb of Internet usage.

http://service.o2.co.uk/IQ/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE?New,Kb=Companion,question=ref(User):str(Mobile),CASE=31566

You could ask Customer Servces about the return of the credit used as they will be able to see if you have used the 50mb given for the money deducted from your account.

As this is user defined via your own phones settings they don't have to return the credit ,but may do so as a Goodwill Gesture.

[MI5]

If you tell us which phone you have we can tell you how to stop it completely.

[Anonymous]

I figured out how to do that myself. I've taken out the o2 simcard.

I'm off to see if I can still load up my old Orange simcard.

[MI5 · Accepted solution]

---

@Anonymous wrote:

I figured out how to do that myself. I've taken out the o2 simcard.

I'm off to see if I can still load up my old Orange simcard.

---

With respect, unless you turn off data, any network sim card will try to connect and you will be charged.

[Anonymous]

---

@Anonymous wrote:

I figured out how to do that myself. I've taken out the o2 simcard.

I'm off to see if I can still load up my old Orange simcard.

---

If your phone is not sourced from an o2 shop and is unlocked to all networks then yes it should work.

I assume orange provides a strong network signal to your area and you have a data package in your tariff with them, or you turn off mobile data ?