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Cellnet, now called O2, were one of the original two analogue networks setup back in the mid eighties. As part of BT they had natural advantages in the Market which should have made them the unassailable number one. However in recent times they have slipped into third place in the Market behind Vodafone and Orange.

They have now been rebranded as O2, but this only serves to confuse customers. They do seem to fighting back with more competitive tariffs of late.

Pay as you go

On Pay and Go 'Original', one pays 35p peak, 10p off peak, and 2p weekends.

Their more recent Pay & Go 'Talkalot' charges 25p for the first three minutes and then 5p (or 2p weekends) for subsequent minutes.

On Pay & Go 'Wild'  you pay £10 per month by direct debit and get £25 worth of calls and texts at the 'Talkalot' rates

Text messages cost 10p and WAP costs 10p per minute. Calls to other mobiles cost 40p per minute (Talkalot) or 50p/30p (Original)

'Pay and go Online' is aimed at text and wap users. You pay a minimum of ten pounds per month, which gives 300 wap minutes and 300 text messages. Voice calls are 30p daytime, 10p evenings and 5p weekends.

You can buy 'Bolt ons' ! Pay £4.99 and get calls and text half price. Or you can get 50 texts for £3.99 or 100 for £6.99. MMS cost 30p or £7.00 for 25.

Pay Monthly

O2 split their tariffs into three types: Anytime, Flat Rate or Evenings & Weekend.

'Anytime' tariffs start at £15 for 30 minutes, £18 for 50 minutes, £25 for 100 minutes and right up to £75 for 1000 minutes. Extra minutes cost 15p/5p/5p on the cheapest tariff or 4p/2p/2p on the most expensive.

'Evening & Weekend' tariffs start at £15 and include 500 free minutes to landlines and O2 mobiles with extra minutes at 2p. Daytime calls cost 35p and wap 12p. For calling other networks one gets a small allowance (25mins of off-peak on the £15 tariff), otherwise it costs 45p.

'Flat Rate' has two tariffs. For £25 one gets 150 anytime minutes with extra calls at £25p, or for £35 one gets 250 minutes with extra calls at 15p per minute. Text costs 12p and wap 10p per minute.

Pay up Front (Now almost sold out)

Pay UpFront for Life offers a Nokia 3310 for £199. There is no monthly charge but one gets a choice of 50 free text messages a month (Txt 50), or 100 weekend minutes plus 20 text msgs (Weekend Talk & Txt) or 200 evening and weekend minutes (Leisure time 200) or 50 minutes anytime (All time 50). There is no carry over of minutes and peak calls are 15 or 35 pence according to tariff choice.

Key Features

Many tariffs have off-peak or weekend at 2p.
A one off payment of £9.99 cuts the cost of roaming calls. Otherwise 99p per min (Pay & Go)
Their Loyalty programme First ( for Account Customers) checks whether you are on the best of their price plans and after a year gives you monthly discounts
It is the cheapest network to ring from a BT land line at the weekend (only 2p per minute).
Most monthly tariffs have a 99p itemisation charge.
Monthly tariffs are 11 months plus thirty days notice.

 

Send email to questions at callforless.co.uk
Last modified: November 05, 2002

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