Costs
How much does O2 Active cost?
Pay Monthly customers
Browsing costs no more than £1 per day. You will be charged £3 per MB up to a maximum of £1 per day with O2 Web Daily. If you intend on using a lot of data we recommend you take the Unlimited Web Bolt On for £7.50 per month. Find out more.Pay & Go customers
Browsing costs £3 per MB. If you intend on using a lot of data we recommend you take the O2 Web Bolt On for £7.50 per month. Find out more.What is 1MB of data?
1MB* on average is:
1. Browsing - surfing the internet on your O2 mobile
O2 Active - O2's own service
85 pages per MB on a 2G Device
1. Browsing - surfing the internet on your O2 mobile
O2 Active - O2's own service
85 pages per MB on a 2G Device
40 pages per MB on a 3G Device**
Using O2 Mobile Web to access the Internet - these pages are predominantly 3rd party sites
8 WWW pages
8 WWW pages
2. Sending and receiving E-mail from your O2 mobile
200 emails without attachment
10 emails with simple one page attachment
3. i-mode®
250 i-mode® pages
200 emails without attachment
10 emails with simple one page attachment
3. i-mode®
250 i-mode® pages
4. Satellite Navigation
15 hours of Sat Nav traffic alert service. Please note using GPS Sat Nav without the traffic alert service does not incur data charges.
Also please note:
The following services when provided by a 3rd party may consume large amounts of data and maybe subject to separate charge. We recommend you take a Browsing Bolt On if you use these services regularly:
- Downloading video clips from 3rd party: typically between 1MB and 5MB depending on the length and quality of the clip, plus the cost of the video
- Downloading high quality music tracks from 3rd party: typically between 1MB and 5MB per track depending on the length and quality of the track, plus the cost of the track
- Downloading games from 3rd party: typically 300KB, plus the cost of the game
Note - Downloading video clips/music/games from O2 costs the price of the content only with no additional data charges.
We recommend that you avoid the following on your mobile:
- Using VoIP*** uses 1 MB of data every 3-4 minutes.
- Using VoIP*** uses 1 MB of data every 3-4 minutes.
- Downloading full length movies as this may use in excess of 1,000MB.
- Using video/audio streaming devices (e.g. 'Sling box'), which connect your mobile device to your TV, also consume large amounts of data. Watching 15 minutes of TV on your mobile using these devices uses around 25MB.
* These figures are based on typical usage. Actual data usage will depend on the content of web pages viewed and the length of emails sent/received.
** O2 Active portals are designed for the device. For 3G phones you will always see the 3G portal where pages are content rich for use over the faster 3G network. 2G devices will always see the 2G portal.
*** Typical VOIP usage is around 5KB per second but will depend on a number of variables including codec and voice sample time.
