In reply to a post by athegn:

what could the bolt-on bolt to?

It bolts on to a PAYG plan.

As I understand, you already have an O2 sim in your Galaxy S2 which is on a Pay Monthly contract till June. If you don't renew, it will revert to PAYG, probably O2's Talkalotmore tariff. I'd recommend changing that for free to the Text and Web tariff which when you top up £10 gives you 500 MB data + 300 SMS during the following month. Then draw down the £10 top up on Web Bolt-ons for the successive months. Then reiterate.

Adamtemp says tethering not allowed with PAYG?

Edited by athegn (Sat 05-Apr-14 22:00:53)

Sorry, I was addressing your OP on deals not tethering.

How can they tell?

It's not even a matter of telling and being told off... Often the provider will fully restrict tethering so the tethering option isn't even available on the handset. It does happen.

I see! I just tried it as an experiment with my O2 simmed Galaxy S3. I had to enable it as a Portable WiFi Hotspot, and login my PC over WiFi with the access key the mobile told me.

It worked but it was so slow and unreliable as to be unusable .

Any contract will not revert to payg on o2 it stays on the same terms and costs but with a 30 day rolling notice period.

So how does one go from Pay Monthly contract to PAYG? Is it possible? Does it require a diff SIM? I don't know, having always been on PAYG.

you ring o2 and end contract saying you wnan to move to payg and they send a new sim out as that has all the correct info for sms center for payg

all explained on the o2 website search keep my number

Edited by deleted (Mon 07-Apr-14 08:56:22)