"New" contract / same operator / sim-only tariffs

"Al Reynolds" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:CRSnk.26029$a%[email protected]...
> While I think about it, the other thing we used to do was migrate
> to PAYG and then migrate back again. On Orange you could
> migrate your number to PAYG and then migrate it back after
> three months. That got me thinking. If you were to start an O2
> Simplicity contract (or a one-month rolling contract with any of
> the operators), can you start a new contract with the *same*
> operator and get "new customer" deals, but also "port" in the
> number from the sim-only contract? It obviously wouldn't be a
> port (as in PAC) because it's the same operator, but would
> probably be another kind of migration. Has anyone on here
> ever gone from a rolling one-month contract to a full contract
> (with subsidised phone) *with the same operator*?
>
> I was just interested to know the current state of play...
>

Yes I did this with my wife's phone on o2.
She completed a 12 month contract + an extra 5 months. She wasn't using all
her allocated minutes so I phoned o2 and they suggested switching to the
simplicity sim (rolling contract) at £15 a month.
At first I was hesitant as I thought I would get a better deal negotiating
while currently on a contract but was told all new customers and existing
customers were now offered the same deal regardless.
Couple of months ago I signed her up to an o2 12 month contract with
subsidised phone.

The network isn't loosing any money by doing this, in fact it is in their
interest to put you on a contract.

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On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:01:31 +0100, "Steven Campbell"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>"Al Reynolds" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:CRSnk.26029$a%[email protected]...
>> While I think about it, the other thing we used to do was migrate
>> to PAYG and then migrate back again. On Orange you could
>> migrate your number to PAYG and then migrate it back after
>> three months. That got me thinking. If you were to start an O2
>> Simplicity contract (or a one-month rolling contract with any of
>> the operators), can you start a new contract with the *same*
>> operator and get "new customer" deals, but also "port" in the
>> number from the sim-only contract? It obviously wouldn't be a
>> port (as in PAC) because it's the same operator, but would
>> probably be another kind of migration. Has anyone on here
>> ever gone from a rolling one-month contract to a full contract
>> (with subsidised phone) *with the same operator*?
>>
>> I was just interested to know the current state of play...
>>
>
>Yes I did this with my wife's phone on o2.
>She completed a 12 month contract + an extra 5 months. She wasn't using all
>her allocated minutes so I phoned o2 and they suggested switching to the
>simplicity sim (rolling contract) at £15 a month.
>At first I was hesitant as I thought I would get a better deal negotiating
>while currently on a contract but was told all new customers and existing
>customers were now offered the same deal regardless.
>Couple of months ago I signed her up to an o2 12 month contract with
>subsidised phone.
>
>The network isn't loosing any money by doing this, in fact it is in their
>interest to put you on a contract.

Was thinking about doing this myself but decided that the network
didn't have any handsets I wanted.

Started off porting away from Orange to o2 400m/100t 12 month contract
with a free handset at £35pm, after this finished migrated to o2
Simplicity 600m/unlimited text for £25pm, have just moved to the
latest Simplicity version that is on offer at the moment at £20pm for
600m/500t/unlimited web/data (1000t for the online version).

With the money I've saved I bought the handset I wanted simfree and
unbranded.

Sam.