Moving from O2 back to orange

[Guest craigblade]

Hi there,

I am considering moving to O2 when my contract expires in 3 months - basically so I don't have to keep paying £5 a month for the insurance, as I have only just got the emergency insurance.

However, how soon could I return to orange as a 'new' customer?

Orange CS have said they accept customers back whenever, but would O2 require me to stay with them for a certain amount of time?

craig

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

If you do not want want to pay for insurance why have it? as it's not

compulsory.

As for O2 you would have to stay with them for as long as the contract stated which is normally twelve months.

[Guest mcwarre]

As for O2 you would have to stay with them for as long as the contract stated which is normally twelve months.

Unless you go PAYG! :) :D

[Guest craigblade]

Yeah I meant O2 pay as you go. How long if I was to go on O2 pay as you go would I have to stay with them before moving back to orange? (if I wanted to move back at all that is).

I'm only getting the insurance as my original SPV has loads of bugs with it which I'm not happy with, and the only way to get a replacement phone is getting the insurance. I could always stay with orange and just upgrade at the end of my contract but then I'm gonna be paying £5 on top of my bill every bill, and as I'm a (poor!) student I'm trying to spend as little as possible!!

craig

[Guest Lourdes]

You wouldn't have to wait any time at all, you can be with whoever you like at whatever time. Especially if it's PAYG.

[Guest beersoft]

just ask for your pak code

that normaly closes your account and gets things moving for a network change, i did that with T-mobile, they just dropped my account to the lowest tariff and let me go 4 months early.

i did have to pay for the outstanding rental left on my contract tho.

later

Owen

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

To add what beery has posted, you need the pak code if you wish to

keep your number, this normally costs but I'm not sure if you can move your number from contract to PAYG or even back again.

[Guest shadamehr]

A PAC code can be used to go from Contract to PAYG, and vice versa,

Please understand however, from someone who had a long running dispute with Singlepoint and through the then OFTEL over number ports etc, that a PORT only happens when their is a change of Network (for example O2 to Orange).

If you end a fulfilled contract with O2 and then try to take your number to another O2 contract/PAYG or whatever, even if with completely different Service Providers, then this is NOT a Port, but in fact a Migration.

And the reason for saying this? A PORT carries legal obligations on the part of the Networks, enforceable by the now OFCOM, and is a right you have.

A migration carries no real legal obligation yet, and is subject to nothing more than a voluntary policy on the part of the networks, and can not be enforced by OFCOM.

(Though this is eventually to change, I am told).

[Guest goinnuts]

err the answer you want is 3 months. dont know why. they never tell me that.