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Ovivo - Any good?
Archiex
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With giffgafff at the moment and using the £5 goodybag giving me 60mins (plus 1 min for each 1min incoming call) 200 texts.
Thinking of swapping over to Ovivo freedom (£0) currently at 150 mins, 250 texts and 500mb. This costs £20 but gives you £15 credit and costs nothing.
I never go over my allowance with giffgaff so am unlikely to do so with Ovivo. It doesn't work out cheaper as I usually post a little on giffgaff boards meaning I cover the cost of the sim via payback.
the advantage of swapping means no more having to worry about posting or sorting out the top up side of things. But I want to know are Ovivo actually any good? Looked around and some say yes but some say nooooo!!! Anyone with personal experience?
Thinking of swapping over to Ovivo freedom (£0) currently at 150 mins, 250 texts and 500mb. This costs £20 but gives you £15 credit and costs nothing.
I never go over my allowance with giffgaff so am unlikely to do so with Ovivo. It doesn't work out cheaper as I usually post a little on giffgaff boards meaning I cover the cost of the sim via payback.
the advantage of swapping means no more having to worry about posting or sorting out the top up side of things. But I want to know are Ovivo actually any good? Looked around and some say yes but some say nooooo!!! Anyone with personal experience?
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They use Vodafone so if you get Vodafone signal it's a no brainer. Only thing i've found annoying is that the internet can be slow at times, but then i rarely use this SIM for internet so can't complain.
The deal every month is great. The £20 start up fee is a bit much if you're a low user though. I know you get £15 back but i got it when the price was a lot cheaper. The good thing is that the £15 allowance can be used for out of allowance stuff like 0845 etc...
For example, in my area Vodafone are great at a 2G signal and c**p at 3G (both coverage and speed!) - so Ovivo should be of little interest to any smartphone owners around here!
I paid a tenner for mine and the OH so have got my money back over and over and I still have my tenner all but 36p that I use for testing my phones MMS.
Trouble is spending £20 for a sim is a bit of a gamble as they could be gone tomorrow. Not saying they are, but I believe this free lunch is just too good to be true and yet a year and half on and their still here.
What amazes me is that Vodafone 3G is so slow my phone struggles to play any of Ovivo’s adverts which bring’s me to thinking it can’t go on much longer but then other users might have better speed than me.
like said on here the signal is not great but i don't mind i mainly use it to call people and its just my second phone not my main one
Its still a great price at a one off £20 as long as you keep within your allowance you don't have to topup ever again
Even if they went down tomorrow i have had my £5 worth:)
So Go For It
Their customer service has also been good. I initially got a standard SIM as I had a Huawei G300 at the time. I binned that and then had to get a micro SIM for the Nexus 4. Very prompt response and the replacement quickly received by post.
I'm kind of thinking re price, as long as they last four months, then I have broken even. Longer and it was worth it. Just signal issue to sort out....
I am looking into Ovivo and I am puzzled...
If you're on a £zero tariff what do you do with the £15 creditit's never going to be used if you stay within your limit is it?
The £15 credit is for if you go over your allowance of 200m,300t and 500mb. Also if you use out of allowance things like 0845 numbers, int'l calls, premium texts and other stuff then that will also use your £15 credit.
All in all Ovivo is a very good deal for a theoretical £0 per month.
Three is the only network that comes close to rivalling it on their 321 tariff. Plus Three have a much better network than Ovivo does.
Anybody need any more referrals?
The data speeds on 3G are, frankly, awful - and I'm yet to exceed 4Mbps anywhere.. but while that's acceptable (especially when it's free), more often than not it's down to sub 1Mbps.. and that's when I'm on 3G. In more cases, I'm actually on 2G.
It's the only time I've done speed tests with ping times in the thousands.. and got results like this;
https://www.dropbox.com/s/oryq7sgn381nikl/2014-01-01%2016.30.59.jpg
I do think it's an ideal SIM to get for a tablet, and the allowance has been increased to 1GB, which is great. But, I'd also rather like to have a service that actually works more often than it doesn't.
Let me point out that I've been using my SIM in mostly town centres and London, not in rural areas. Ovivo insist they don't speed cap or manage data traffic in any way, but surely Vodafone users aren't getting data that's this slow or unreliable?
I can’t complain after all it’s a free lunch not just once but every day and I’m able to leave my Smartphone’s data turned on 24/7 with all the apps that need data getting it with me having no fear of charges.
As far as calls and text goes, these are no different from any other network but free.
Long may it live but if it does go belly up I have my 3-2-1 sim at the ready.;-)
I am on Vodafone (in Oxfordshire) and I assure you that their 3G is truly hopeless - even for their own customers! My 12 months ends next month and I am off to either Three or EE as fast as possible!!:D
Update: Not sure about that. Definitely going to be a better signal, but it seems like you'll be almost constantly watching ads to earn any usable amounts of data!
I think I'd rather wait until Ovivo might one day get access to Vodafone's 4G network. So far, both Vodafone and O2's 4G experience has been pretty impressive.
http://i.imgur.com/YSJKvdB.jpg
Here is data earned for my account in December. Some of it is cut off because I'm on my iPad.
Unlike Ovivo you watch adverts before you use the data and build up an allowance for use when you like. You can literally load up an advert and switch to a different tab on your browser whilst it runs. Then come back a few minutes later or whenever you like to advance to the next advert.
it must come to a end and they will have to start charging but will
ride it till it goes
It's arguably happening now, with the roll out of 4G and the general upgrading of sites as this is done, but how far behind are they as a result of inaction before?
Three was obviously always going to have to spend loads on data, as it allowed itself to be a network carrying almost only data.
T-Mobile also invested a lot in data, which clearly made the MBNL deal particularly good - and Orange has benefited greatly since EE and getting access to MBNL.
I just don't know when Vodafone will be able to provide me (via Ovivo) with what I'd call a reliable and usable data service. At the current time, I can't rely on it at all. So what if it's free?
It being free should be no excuse for Vodafone. They're still paid by Ovivo for the data used by customers.
True.
Here are some speed tests with the SIM in my Nexus 5;
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5jjb53jlxf8l6j1/2014-03-12%2017.24.56.png
Impressive huh? And that's on 3G, not 2G. On 2G, I'd get a communication error and not be able to do a test at all.
I got the Ovivo SIM originally to put in a Nexus 7 tablet. Now I've put an EE PAYG SIM in there and have decided I'll just pay £3 for 100MB ever now and then, and for any more data, just use my phone as a wireless hotspot.
What's worse is that my dad got an iPad air from my mum at Christmas, and I gave him an Ovivo SIM too so he'd have free data when out and about. He's said many times that it isn't working at all. Clearly it IS working, but the network is so poor it's effectively the same thing.
Just done a speedtest on Voda contract - 1.5meg down, 0.5meg up. Ovivo - 0.02 down/up.
There are LOTS of places where Voda 3G is completely useless, but there's definitely something else not right as even when it's working on a Voda SIM it's not on Ovivo. Might try and contact Ovivo and see what they have to say. 0.02down is unusable.
It's awful isn't it?
Your speeds there for Ovivo are on par with mine though a few months ago I started getting speeds up to 5Mb/s down but it did not last long and the speeds you reflect here are the day in, day out speeds on average and like seffangl says that Vodafone direct is better but only by hairs width.
Ash
He doesn't have a smartphone just an old nokia so doesn't get any adverts either.