O2 Sim Only 5G - 40GB (80GB With Volt) Unlimited Mins / Texts (12m) + 3 Months Disney+ £10pm

I thought we had to wait till April to avoid price rises?

Damn o2 have fixed the upgrade anytime glitch I had been using for years 

Just the worst C/S in living memory, would not even take their service for free (edited)

I find 5G on O2 very slow…From Temple station in London a walk along by the river up to Westminster station i can hardly stream internet radio.

Looking at other solutions….Maybe Superdrug mobile that runs on 3

I've just received the email of april price rise for my existing contract. Thankfully, I'm out of contract, so I'm wondering whether upgrading to this as an existing customer will mean that I will still get a rise in April 2024?

Also does anyone know once I go ahead with the upgrade, what happens to my existing sim and how quick will the upgrade place? i.e. will my signal go down immediately, a day or two later or not? (edited)

This isn't a good deal tbh or am I wrong? (edited)

Usually £8 the 40Gb deal O2 


wouldn’t rate this as hot

Can’t wait for my O2 contract to end. The speeds and coverage across the Wirral seem to get noticeably worse each month

Does 5G work yet on O2?

They claim to have launched SA 5G in 14 areas last Thursday. But I can see no evidence online anywhere of people being able to connect to O2 5G SA.

I see speeds of up to 10Mbps on NSA 5G on a full signal.

It seems like O2 are oversubscribed still and have no bandwidth for data services in a lot of places for 4G or 5G. (edited)

I was with O2 for a number of years and moved out to Lebara, partly because of the price hikes, and partly because of the terrible connection issued in Oxfordshire. I had volt too (before I moved from the virgin catchment area), but I was paying £20ish for 2x contracts with more data we could ever use.
Lebara had a £1pm/6 months deal, so with the savings I think it was worth the hassle. Speed is similar, connection is as rubbish, but I'm only paying £1! (also EU roaming is important which is present on both companies)

Firstly, good for those that don't have network issues.

I purchased the previous £8 deal in December and it was the worst mistake I ever made! My tariff was changed due to some system glitch and upped to unlimited data. Took me 2 days to get in touch with someone who understood my issue and fixed that. Then a couple of weeks later I had no signal, tried calling myself and it said invalid number! Took another 3 days (with no access to my number) to get O2 to tell me they disconnected the number due to suspicious activity (the tariff change I mentioned). Without notifying/warning me in advance mind you.

As it was a 12 month contract, cheapest way out was to upgrade to a 30 day rolling by paying £20, then using PAC to port out. With Lebara now and no issues.

Don't care about losing the VOLT benefits as the negative experiences I had are not worth the extra speed with VM.

Edited a mistake, meant unlimited data not mins. (edited)

This isn't as good as the £8 deal last year but baring in mind this is going up to £8.70 in April, I would be getting 3 months of Disney+ for £15.60 (over the year) and if another deal comes along, then I am sure they will still "waive" the early upgrade fee as they've done for years.

Does Volt apply to every O2 Sim? i am looking at the £8 one.

EDIT* talked to an O2 agent, says it applys to every SIM, but say price will increase even if you Virgin media this April (edited)

Just reading the comments above regarding low 5g speeds with O2. I am with Sky mobile which uses O2 signal and I get pretty decent speeds on 5g. I'm no expert but could these speed issues be dependent on location? These are the speeds I have just achieved inside my house.

Isn’t their standard 32GB/£8 proportionately a better deal than this? What am I missing? (edited)

Do they still do the 20% off if you have more than one SIM?
If so, how do I do that if I am looking to get this for my daughter (and the bill sit with me)?

Does it mean no price increase till 2025?

If I upgrade my sim only today will the price increase in April 24?

Already have a sim with o2 that is out of contract, I can't seem to get this deal when I pick the upgrade option. Anyone know if you can transfer to an esim using this deal, and keep your current o2 plastic sim phone number?

Anyone got a Disney+ free trial code they don’t want and happy to give away?

5G with O2. Good joke . This is a good deal if you're in one of the cities with limited O2 5G coverage (and it will be limited, and don't trust their coverage maps).

Could I run 2 sims.. One for me and one for my daughter? And get volt for both?