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

12000 texts - really?

Why would anybody want 12000 text? More like 1200.

It's 12,000. That's O2's limit on 'unlimited' texts.

Nope I've not got tha text. Not that it ould matter as my phone isn't an wifi one anyway.

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?

Yes how nice of them to allow you to use your own wifi.

It means access to wifi hotspots in public places, cloud and bt openzone presumably.

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?

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.

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?

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.

Ah right I see. I get free access to BT Openzone because of my broadband contract. I guess I should be able to connect to Openzone independently of o2, but it never works for me.

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

No No - not a stupid question at all. Don't think there's an unequivocal answer from anyone since either.
Can anyone definitely confimrm that "free wifi" means unfettered access to some sort of national public wi-fi like BT-Fon?

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.

I received the same text a couple of days ago. Will be interesting to give it a try next time I'm up town.

I also had the same tariff as yourself but downgraded to the £10 a month offer with " Unlimited " but really 500mb internet allowance.

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

depends if you agree on using the word unlimited and then putting a limit on it as the companies do,arguing it means something different

My son seems to manage to use his 12,000 text regularly and still attend college

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

Thanks for the info.

Darren

Yes I get the same.