The days of having to get a new phone through the big providers is well and truly over too, with so many places offering new or refurb phones for a monthly cost.
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Just a shame more people aren’t aware of the value of the virtual networks. The big 4 have a hold over many people and many would just stay with them because they don’t really trust the virtual providers
I was mulling trying Honest Mobile smart SIM at £45 for the year. Thought it may be worth seeing if it improved the things on Midland Mainline between Nottingham and London, and when I’m in London where I often struggle with O2. Also going to be spending a month touring northern Europe and Scandinavia next year and it would cut the amount of roaming data I’d use on O2.
Anyway, they’re now offering it for £38.25 for a limited time so I’ve given it a go. I don’t mind if the speeds aren’t stellar as long as I can actually connect. If it’s crap, I’ve made worse decisions 
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It can be useful but you need to use it correctly. You can’t do everything and generally can’t stream but for maps, messaging, google searches, lots of ai options plus a load of other stuff, it is great. I have the annual plan (also might be a recent investor….)
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Thanks @Will_i, I’d worked out the limitations, but yes maps, messaging and banking are what I need.
personally I think something like https://esim.sm/en/global-esim that is payg £1.05 per GB on all UK networks is better value for most people, the payg per GB pricing is available around the world at various rates. There are similar esims like Roamless (No EE) both of these will probably have foreign IP addresses but that shouldn’t be an issue if it’d a backup sim, does Honest use UK ip addresses?
https://flexifone.co.uk/ is also good but a bit more expensive and fixed cost.
Has anyone got any experience with Slyce? Good data speeds?
They piggyback on EE so, among the best data speeds. Obviously location dependent so YMMV.
Cringe and creepy… Smacks of falseness. I’ll be honest it’s a big thing that would turn me off of the brand to be fair. 
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What happened to the Revolut plans
Who knows!
according to MSE some people have had some luck in getting a decent deal from the retentions team - I did try doing a webchat but it just timed out on me, and I’m not sure I’ve got the patience to phone. Maybe I ought to just vote with my feet.
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Great to see O2 finally having 5G in Chester, though I could only test while picking someone up at the train station.
Finally got around to calling O2. The best they could offer me was £10/mo for 50GB - which, if I do nothing, is what I’d be paying in April for 20GB. I don’t need that much data!
They were cheeky enough to say I was already getting a discount on my contract - er, no, that’s just how they fudged my grandfathered Virgin Mobile tariff onto the O2 system.
Will probably be heading to Lebara, but not before I rinse Priority for a few more deals (like free cloakroom at a gig I’m going to this weekend)
I use spusu, which is an EE MVNO and the data speeds went down to 3 Mbps last night and hasn’t changed. That’s both at home and a few miles away - so different masts.
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When changing tariffs on o2 were you told you had to go through another credit check a hard one that would stay on your file?
Before EE was a thing, they were Orange and they brought T-mobile and they actively pushed the better paying customers to the better masts.
It won’t surprise me if they’re doing that for the virtual networks.
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Changing tariffs shouldn’t impact your file.