Second SIM for Data Sharing (Like VF 'Red Business' Plans)

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I'm currently looking at switching from 'Three' to either O2 or Vodafone. VF have some cracking deals and packages at the moment, which I'm very interested in - specifically the 'Red Business' plans which are including loads of free additional data and also offer a second SIM to be used in a second device and which can share the bundled data.

Does anyone know whether O2 offer either a direct competitive product, or any other way of achieveing the same functionality? I'd prefer to go with O2 because the signal at home is marginally better and I've heard very good things about the customer support, which I haven't about VF, but the extra bundled data and especially, the second SIM are killer features that I really want.

I spoke to CS and was really surprised to hear that there doesn't appear to be an O2 equivalent, but I thought I'd try here in case I am missing something.

Thanks!

[adamtemp64 · Accepted solution]

O2 do not at present offer this type of shared data sim.

[Anonymous]

Sorry but your not "missing anything"

Would be a good additional service to offer.

Perhaps feed this back to o2.

[MI5]

I thought you could share an account with O2 Bussiness accounts but the sim will carry a different number?

[Toby]

Hi Zirynx, welcome

Its a really interesting idea and I'll pass it on to the O2 team for you. If you have any other ideas, feel free to post them.

Are there any other parts of O2 that you like the look of (TU Go, O2 Tracks etc)?

[adamtemp64]

@mi5 share voice and sms but each has a seperate data allowance on the shared tariffs.

[MI5]

Aha, cheers Adam... Thought strange you hadn't mentioned it

[Anonymous]

Thanks everyone for the welcome, the comments and the advice.

I'm really surprised that O2 are 'behind the gameline' on this one as VF have been offering it for quite a while. Was keen to go with O2 as my partner has been with them for nearly 10 years and has good things to say about them. Signal performance (in all the places that I've checked with the two PAYG phones/SIMs that I recently purchased) is marginally better with O2 in a few of those places, but not so much that I can turn away from the excellent tariff and SIM sharing structure that VF are currently offering.

If this could be fed back to O2 (I have no idea how to go about doing that other than speaking to a CSR) then that would be good - maybe it might then be available in the future.

In the meantime, all that the O2 CSRs could offer me was a separate data-only contract for the iPad, wich really defeats the whole point. I don't mind buying additional data, but I really want one plan that I can share.

Again, thanks for the feedback.

Edited: for typos

[Anonymous]

@Toby

Can you feed this back for the OP please.

[japitts]

Orange offer "Single Number" which covers all 3 bases for making a second device an extension of the first..

- Outbound CLI presentation

- Incoming calls diverted as appropriate

- Full tariff sharing across both devices.