
I've recently got an O2 contract as a side effect of buying a phone I wanted as a present for Julia. I was on T-Mobile pay as you go before. What can I say? I am generally disappointed in many ways. Namely:
- You can't get SMS delivery notifications in a standard way. "Require delivery notification" flag is ignored. But you still can receive them - in a very awkward O2 way. You must begin your message with "*0# " (not forgetting the trailing space). Nice, isn't it? And I won't be surprised that my message character limit is now 4 characters less.
- Texts sent to my mom's Russian mobile (Beeline) are not delivered. I had no problems sending texts abroad with T-Mobile. O2's customer support suggested that they had no agreement with the target network. But I have a friend on Beeline who receives my texts with no problems! Yesterday mom's changed her operator to MTS so we could text.
- Recent charges (detailed call list) is available online but despite their promise that it gets updates within 24 hours, it's 3rd of Feb today and latest calls I can see are from 30 Jan. This will be less important later when my spending stabilises and I won't need to watch it closely.
- If I were on O2 pay as you go... I wouldn't be on O2 pay as you go. Their PAYG call charges are higher than anywhere else. 40p/min on calls to non-O2 mobiles while Virgin and T-Mobile offer 15p/min, and on 3 it's 12p/min. Ridiculous.