Pay & Go tariff charges and terms

By switching tariff, any free allowances of minutes, texts or browsing you currently receive will be replaced by the free monthly allowances outlined on the previous page in your chosen tariff and the standard call rates. If you switch tariff, you will not be able to switch back to your current call rates.

You can switch tariff once a month and your new free allowances will start from your next anniversary date, which is the date given to you the first time you top-up

Usage outside your allowance Charges
Standard calls1 25p a min for the first 3 mins a day then 5p a min for the rest of the day
O2 mobiles As Standard calls
Other UK network mobiles 25p
Video calls 50p
UK Text message2 12p per message
Picture message3 25p per message
Voicemail 901 15p per call
WAP via 915000 or +44 7712927927 10p
Browsing4 Up to max £1/day
O2 Customer Service (4445 or 0844 809 0222 ) 25p per call from any Pay & Go O2 mobile
O2 Directories 118402 £1 (minimum charge £1)
1200 Trafficline™ 45p
International calls from UK From 1p per minute. See www.o2.co.uk/internationalsim for a full list of countries and rates
International text message 10p per message
Premium Rate numbers from 80p
0500, 0505, 055, 056, 080, 082 numbers 15p
07744, 07755 numbers 25p
070 numbers 50p
0844, 0845, 0870 numbers 25p
0871 numbers 35p

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Full terms apply.

  1. If you connect in-store the default tariff will be Favourite Place and we will send you a text to ask for your postcode.
  2. Excessive usage policy applies. The text allowance can only be used for texts in the UK to UK registered mobile phones only. It excludes picture messages.
  3. Data usage for customers on Pay & Go tariffs with no data allowance (e.g. O2 Unlimited and International sim) or for data usage over and above a customer's tariff data allowance (e.g. Text & Web) and/or data Bolt-On will be charged at 1p per 3 kilobytes and capped at a maximum of £1 a day. After that, you have unlimited use of O2's UK Edge/GPRS/3G networks (as applicable to your handset), subject to excessive usage policy and limit of 50MB per day. Browsing outside the UK will be charged at £3 per MB for Europe and £6 per MB for rest of the world. Exclusions apply.