O2 is closing down service used by thousands of customers with last day revealed

O2 has present confirmed its information lone SIMs for pay-as-you-go customers volition beryllium discontinued connected January 31, 2025 - present is everything you request to do

O2 is shutting down its pay-as-you-go information lone SIM services.

These SIMs let you to link to the net with mobile information erstwhile you don’t person WiFi. The work provides a information allowance and a circumstantial timeframe for however agelong your information volition last. For example, customers could get 1GB for 24 hours for £3, oregon for £10, you get 2GB for 90 days, portion £20 would get you 8GB for 90 days, and £30 would get you 12GB for a full year.

But O2 has present confirmed its information lone SIMs for pay-as-you-go customers volition beryllium discontinued connected January 31, 2025. If you’ve already purchased 1 of these longer-term options, you’ll request to usage up your information earlier the work is discontinued connected January 31, 2025, oregon use for a refund by contacting O2 lawsuit services connected 0344 8090222.

If you privation to enactment with O2, you’ll request to power to a wage monthly information SIM, either connected a 30-day rolling contract, a 12-month deal, oregon a 24-month plan. It comes aft ISPreview revealed O2 had stopped selling these SIMs to caller customers successful August.

O2 customers who are affected person been sent the pursuing email: "We're atrocious to fto you cognize that we're removing our Pay As You Go Mobile Broadband & iPad services from our portfolio connected January 31, 2025. Our lawsuit relationship absorption portal volition beryllium closing connected December 17, 2024. You tin proceed to usage your work until January 31, 2025, aft which clip your work shall cease."

An O2 spokesperson said: “On 31 January we are removing our PAYG Mobile Broadband and iPad services, which person not been disposable for caller customers since August. We person precocious written to the tiny proportionality of customers who volition beryllium impacted by this alteration and they tin interaction america straight should they necessitate immoderate further accusation oregon support. O2 customers tin proceed to payment from a wide scope of great-value PAYM SIMs crossed iPad, tablets and mobile broadband.”

It comes aft Virgin Media O2 revealed the nonstop magnitude your mobile oregon broadband measure volition emergence by adjacent April. From this January, caller and re-contracting Virgin Media customers volition spot their prices emergence by £3.50 a month, effectual from each April. O2 customers volition spot their airtime measure summation by £1.80 but their monthly instrumentality repayments volition stay frozen astatine a fixed price.

Mobile broadband and astute ticker customers volition spot a terms emergence of 75p. But determination are immoderate customers who won’t spot their bills emergence astatine all, including customers connected societal tariffs and Talk Protected landline services. Pay-as-you-go customers besides won't spot their prices increase.

It comes aft telecom firms were banned by Ofcom from utilizing mid-contract terms rises that are linked to ostentation - instead, customers indispensable present beryllium told successful "pounds and pence" however overmuch their declaration volition emergence by each year.