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o2 pay and go tariffs now offer free wi-fi
I got a text from o2 yesterday saing you can now enjoy free wi-fi ast home and out and about with o2.
Anyone else had this text. Im on the pay and go text and web and pay £15 a moth and get 12000 text and 500mb or internet data. Darren |
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12000 texts - really?
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Why would anybody want 12000 text? More like 1200.
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Why would anybody want 12000 text? More like 1200.
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Nope I've not got tha text. Not that it ould matter as my phone isn't an wifi one anyway.
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Sorry if this is a stupid question, but at home the wi-fi would connect via your wireless router so it would be free anyway - wouldn't it?
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Sorry if this is a stupid question, but at home the wi-fi would connect via your wireless router so it would be free anyway - wouldn't it?
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It means access to wifi hotspots in public places, cloud and bt openzone presumably.
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This wi-fi business confuses me. I can use my home wi-fi but not public wi-fi, to do that I would have to upgrade my account to include this, though that would bring in a cap of 500mb on my normal internet (although I presently never get near 500mb I don't want to lose my "unlimited" status). If I were to use BT Openzone wi-fi I would not be using o2's resources in any way at all, so why do I need "permission" from o2 to do this?
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This wi-fi business confuses me. I can use my home wi-fi but not public wi-fi, to do that I would have to upgrade my account to include this, though that would bring in a cap of 500mb on my normal internet (although I presently never get near 500mb I don't want to lose my "unlimited" status). If I were to use BT Openzone wi-fi I would not be using o2's resources in any way at all, so why do I need "permission" from o2 to do this?
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I'm with O2 on a Simplicity tariff for smartphones which offers 500mb plus free wi-fi. Presume this means free wi-fi just at places that offer it, eg, fast food joints, coffee shops etc?
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This is the way i see it. Correct me if im wrong
o2 are now offering a wifi connection on some of their payg tarrifs. This means as an o2 customer been on the right payg tarrif you can connect to their wifi signal which is via cloud or bt openzone at no extra cost. And assuming you have a mobile phone that has wifi ability This has nothing to do with your own wifi signal at home. |
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You've got the wrong end of the stick. BT Openzone charge for access to their hotspots. If you are on one of the tariffs with free wi-fi then you get free access to hotspots which normally charge.
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I got my wi-fi set up to use at home and for free wi-fi hotspots is there any other settings I need to use to use the free wi-fi frrom o2.
Its a Sony Ericsson im using. Darren |
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Sorry if this is a stupid question, but at home the wi-fi would connect via your wireless router so it would be free anyway - wouldn't it?
Can anyone definitely confimrm that "free wifi" means unfettered access to some sort of national public wi-fi like BT-Fon? |
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I can cannect to my home wi-fi and to other free public ones and to The Cloud (which is free for O2 users). Never yet successfully connected to a BT Openzone network. Well it connects but then times out with invalid something or other.
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I got a text from o2 yesterday saing you can now enjoy free wi-fi ast home and out and about with o2.
Anyone else had this text. Im on the pay and go text and web and pay £15 a moth and get 12000 text and 500mb or internet data. Darren I also had the same tariff as yourself but downgraded to the £10 a month offer with " Unlimited " but really 500mb internet allowance. |
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It's 12,000. That's O2's limit on 'unlimited' texts.
![]() I just use o2 payg, using my home wifi for free, public wifi when im out and bt openzone/fon if it ever worked for me :P |
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That certainly is a very fair "unlimited" cap imo. I work that out as sending a text roughly every 3 1/2 minutes 24 hours a day for the entire month. Unless you mass txt it would be a real effort for anyone to ever come close, surely?
![]() I just use o2 payg, using my home wifi for free, public wifi when im out and bt openzone/fon if it ever worked for me :P My son seems to manage to use his 12,000 text regularly and still attend college |
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Yes I got this, a nice little bonus but I doubt i'll ever use it that much. 3g is fast enough for me and the few times that there has been no 3g signal and i've been desperate and tried to connect to an unsecure network (naughty me) I've only found a BT openzone a couple of times and never a cloud hotspot so don't think they're that common near me anyway. For everyone confused, access to your home wireless is always free (well obviously you have to pay your isp, but apart from that) from your mobile, it doesn't take any allowance, charge per GB or anything like that. It's your home internet, nothing to do with a mobile network. You only pay per GB or get internet taken out of your allowance only when using mobile internet that is not wireless e.g. 3G, edge etc. What this 'free wifi' from o2 means is that you can now access their partner wifi hotspots from BT and The Cloud which you would normally have to pay to access. Quote:
I got my wi-fi set up to use at home and for free wi-fi hotspots is there any other settings I need to use to use the free wi-fi frrom o2.
Its a Sony Ericsson im using. Darren Haven't tried it yet myself but what presume it's similar sort of setup for SE |
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Yes I got this, a nice little bonus but I doubt i'll ever use it that much. 3g is fast enough for me and the few times that there has been no 3g signal and i've been desperate and tried to connect to an unsecure network (naughty me) I've only found a BT openzone a couple of times and never a cloud hotspot so don't think they're that common near me anyway.
For everyone confused, access to your home wireless is always free (well obviously you have to pay your isp, but apart from that) from your mobile, it doesn't take any allowance, charge per GB or anything like that. It's your home internet, nothing to do with a mobile network. You only pay per GB or get internet taken out of your allowance only when using mobile internet that is not wireless e.g. 3G, edge etc. What this 'free wifi' from o2 means is that you can now access their partner wifi hotspots from BT and The Cloud which you would normally have to pay to access. I had a quick read about it. For the iphone you just have to turn on your wifi, connect to the btopenzone or cloud network, go into your browser and it should automatically bring you to the openzone or cloud login page then enter your mobile number and it should connect. Haven't tried it yet myself but what presume it's similar sort of setup for SE Darren |
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12000 texts - really?
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