O2 Update

November 25th, 2003 - 12:50 | 7 comments

I phoned O2 this morning to see how they were getting on.

“There seems to be a problem with all 6600 orders. Try putting it through again.”

Still doesn’t work

If they only knew the vast traffic my blog gets, they’d be sorry. Many thousands of people, the world over, are reading of my plight and passing word onto their neighbours, children, inmate husbands, psychology teachers, bovine chimps and milkmen that O2 are being annoying at the moment. I wouldn’t be surprised if their share price drops through the floor.

UPDATE @ 13:47: As Ed pointed out in the comments, the 6600 is now listed as unavailable. I wonder whether this means they’re sorting out the ordering problem, or they don’t have any in stock.

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7 Responses to “O2 Update”

1 Ed Nov 25th, 2003 at 1:43 pm

according to the o2 website you can’t get the 6600 on pay monthly or pay as you go. (!)
2 Andrew Nov 25th, 2003 at 1:44 pm

heh, that’s only happened in the last hour At least they’ve finally realised there’s a problem, anyway
3 Simon Nov 25th, 2003 at 2:30 pm

Does the phone really exist? I don’t remember ever seeing this phone
4 Ed Nov 25th, 2003 at 3:21 pm

You can get it for free from orange… for a ?50 month contract.
5 Andrew Nov 25th, 2003 at 3:47 pm

I’m beginning to wonder I did see one in the Vodafone shop window in Solihull, but it was gone by a few days later…Maybe it only exists in 3d on the nokia website.

Orange do have a 200mins/500text offer for ?30/month, actually, but it’s just not quite as good as O2.
6 Ed Nov 25th, 2003 at 4:15 pm

Orange will match the deal though. (the deal has EQ at the start of it.) What you can do is start on the fifty pound contract and then go down to a cheaper one after three months… keeping the cost of the phone according to the original contract.
7 Simon Nov 25th, 2003 at 4:39 pm

As far as I recall they don’t match online deals. The best o2 offers are net only. If you instead check the non-web offers in the shop you will see that they aren’t as good. At least that was true over the last year. Whether or not Orange changed their match system or o2 changed their contracts is not something I have looked into, nor am I likely to look into.
To my knowledge, a large number of us have moved back to o2 in the last year (i have always been with o2/bt) and my family is on o2. Therefore, it is most cost effective for me to be on o2 no matter what the perks of another provider is. In addition to cheap calls to the people I want to call the 500 free messages is one of the best perks out there, and the calls I do make are well served by the 100 free minutes.
These are my reasons for not looking for another service provider anyway. I state them only because if my recollection on the network migration of our friends is accurate then this will be of interest to Andrew I am sure.

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