O2 Pay As You Go Bundles: Big Bundles & Plans From £10/Month Top Up

O2 offers Pay As You Go bundles from £10/month. Compare their top-up bundles, including Big Bundles & Rolling Plans.

In the UK, O2 offers a range of Pay As You Go bundles, starting from £10 per month. Available with no contract & no credit check, you can choose from a range of Big Bundles and Rolling Plans for your phone.

At present, you can get up to 10GB data for a £10 monthly top-up on O2. You’ll also get unlimited UK minutes and unlimited UK texts. There’s also data rollover included, along with access to O2 Priority and O2 Rewards.

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When you order a Pay As You Go SIM card through this link on the Big Bundles plan, you can claim £10 of free Pay As You Go credit once you’ve activated your SIM card.

In this article, we’ll review O2’s Pay As You Go service, along with the Big Bundles and the Rolling Plans that are available on it. We’ll also look at the features included, along with the coverage available and how you can keep your current phone number when you switch to O2.

Bundles & Pricing

O2 is one of the UK’s largest Pay As You Go mobile networks. They currently offer two types of Pay As You Go plan:

• Big Bundles: O2’s Big Bundles start from 8GB data for £10 per month. You’ll be able to top-up your SIM card manually on Big Bundles (e.g. in store, by phone or online). There’s also the facility to set-up automatic monthly top-ups if you wish.
• Rolling Plans: O2’s Rolling Plans start from 10GB data for £10 per month. You’ll get more data included on these Rolling Plans but you’ll need to set-up automatic monthly payments to get them. They’re also only available when you order your SIM card online.

In both cases, there’s no contract and no credit check required. You’ll also benefit from data rollover, O2 Rewards, O2 Priority and EU roaming on both types of plan.

The following table shows a side-by-side comparison of O2’s Big Bundles and Rolling Plans:

	Big Bundles	Rolling Plans
Plans From:	£10 per month	£10 per month
Data Allowances
£10 per month:	8GB data	10GB data
£15 per month:	25GB data	30GB data
£20 per month:	40GB data	50GB data
£30 per month:	125GB data	150GB data
Plan Features
Payment Method:	Manual top-up or automatic payments	Automatic payments only
UK Minutes & Texts:	Unlimited	Unlimited
International Calls:	None (£10 & £15 bundle) 50 minutes (£20 bundle) 250 minutes (£30 bundle)	None (£10 rolling plan) 100 minutes (£15 & £20 rolling plan) 500 minutes (£30 rolling plan)
Data Rollover:	Yes (core data only)	Yes (core data only)
EU Roaming:	Yes (up to 25GB)	Yes (up to 25GB)
More Information:	O2 Big Bundles Webpage	O2 Rolling Plans Webpage

Big Bundles

On O2’s Big Bundles plan, you can convert your Pay As You Go credit into a one-month allowance of UK minutes, texts and mobile data.

At present, you’ll get 8GB data for £10 per month. There’s also a £15, £20 and £30 Big Bundle available with even more data.

The following table shows O2’s Big Bundle plans:

Network	Data	Monthly Cost
Unlimited mins Unlimited texts	8GB data	£10.00 per month No contract	See deal
Unlimited UK mins Unlimited UK texts 50 intl mins	25GB data	£15.00 per month No contract	See deal
Unlimited UK mins Unlimited UK texts 50 intl mins	40GB data	£20.00 per month No contract	See deal
Unlimited UK mins Unlimited UK texts 250 intl mins	125GB data	£30.00 per month No contract	See deal

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As a special offer, you’ll get £10 of free credit when you order your O2 Big Bundles SIM card online. Upon arrival, you’ll have 28 days to activate your SIM card. You can then text FREE10 to 21500 to claim your £10 of free credit.

You’ll get 50 international minutes included on the £20 Big Bundle and 250 international minutes included on the £30 Big Bundle. These are valid for calling 42 destinations.

In the past, O2 also offered a £5 Big Bundle. This is no longer available for new customers.

Rolling Plans

For a larger data allowance, it’s worth choosing one of O2’s rolling plans instead of a Big Bundle.

To get a rolling plan, you’ll need to order your SIM card online. When it arrives, you’ll need to set up automatic monthly top-ups before you’re able to buy a rolling plan. The automatic top-ups can save you time as there will be no need to manually top-up your phone every month. At the same time, you’ll retain the flexibility to pause, change or cancel your plan at any time.

You’ll get 10GB data on O2’s £10 rolling plan (increased from the 8GB data allowance on the £10 Big Bundle). For even more data, you can choose the £15, £20 or £30 rolling plans.

The following table shows O2’s rolling plans:

Network	Data	Monthly Cost
Unlimited mins Unlimited texts	10GB data	£10.00 per month No contract	See deal
Unlimited UK mins Unlimited UK texts 100 intl mins	30GB data	£15.00 per month No contract	See deal
Unlimited UK mins Unlimited UK texts 100 intl mins	50GB data	£20.00 per month No contract	See deal
Unlimited UK mins Unlimited UK texts 500 intl mins	150GB data	£30.00 per month No contract	See deal

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You’ll also get 100 international minutes included on the £15 and £20 rolling plans from O2. Meanwhile, customers choosing the £30 rolling plan will get 500 international minutes included every month. These are valid for calling 42 destinations.

Bundle Codes

If you already have an O2 Pay As You Go SIM card, you can buy a Big Bundle through the My O2 app. Alternatively, you can send a text message as follows:

For customers ordering a new SIM card through this link, it’s also possible to get £10 of free Pay As You Go credit by sending a text message as follows:

It isn’t possible to buy a rolling plan by text message. Instead, you’ll need to order and activate your O2 rolling plan SIM card online.

Pay As You Go Rates

If you don’t have an active Pay As You Go bundle on your account, you’ll pay O2’s standard Pay As You Go rates for any usage. These are 55p/minute, 30p/text and £2/day for up to 100MB of data.

The following table shows the out-of-bundle rates on O2 Pay As You Go:

The prices in this table are stated for UK-to-UK only. If you’re travelling abroad or making an international phone call, higher charges will normally apply. Source for pricing information: O2 [1, 2].

If you have an old O2 SIM card on the Classic Pay As You Go plan, the Pay As You Go rates listed above will not apply to you.

O2 Pay As You Go Features

Data Rollover

You can benefit from data rollover on both the Big Bundles and rolling plans from O2. This is only available when your bundle renews automatically (so you’ll either need to have automatic top-ups, or you’ll need to top-up manually before your current bundle expires).

To give an example, if you have 1GB of unused data on the £10 Big Bundle, you’d receive an extra 1GB of data in the following month’s bundle. This would increase your data allowance from 8GB to 9GB per month. Data rollover is only available on your core data allowance, and excludes promotional data.

O2 Rewards & O2 Priority

As an O2 Pay As You Go customer, you’ll benefit from both O2 Rewards and the O2 Priority programme.

• With O2 Rewards, you’ll earn up to 10% of your top-ups back as a reward (5% for your first six months, then 10% after the first six months). This can be taken in the form of Pay As You Go credit, or used for discounts elsewhere (e.g. at an O2 store, at Ticketmaster or for selected high street vouchers).
• With O2 Priority, you’ll get exclusive access to Priority Tickets at gigs and other events across the UK. You can also benefit from other offers and freebies, such as a free coffee and a free sausage roll from Greggs each week.

Inclusive European Roaming

O2’s Pay As You Go plans come with inclusive roaming in 43 European destinations. You’ll be able to use the minutes, texts and data from your plan at no extra cost when you travel (up to a maximum of 25GB data per month).

For more information, see O2’s guide to roaming in Europe.

Network & Coverage

In the UK, O2 offers 99% population coverage. If you’re using an O2 Pay As You Go SIM card, you’ll have access to 2G, 3G and 4G coverage from O2.

Before you sign up for O2 Pay As You Go (either Big Bundles or a Rolling Plan), we’d strongly recommended checking O2’s coverage in your area. You can do this by entering your postcode on O2’s online coverage map:

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It’s worth checking the coverage available at your home address, as well as other places where you regularly spend a lot of time (e.g. at your workplace, school, university, etc).

Unfortunately, 5G coverage isn’t currently available to O2 Pay As You Go customers. If you’d like access to 5G, you’ll need to get an O2 Pay Monthly SIM card instead. Alternatively, there are other 5G Pay As You Go providers using coverage from O2 (e.g. giffgaff).

Keeping Your Phone Number

If you’re switching from another mobile network to O2, it’s a straightforward process to keep your current phone number.

Start by asking your current mobile network to provide you with a PAC Code. You can get this through your mobile network’s website or app, or by texting PAC to 65075.

Once you have the PAC Code from your old network, order your new Pay As You Go phone or SIM card from O2’s website. When it arrives, you’ll be able to provide the PAC Code to O2 through this online form. Once you’ve submitted the form, the phone number transfer will be scheduled (normally for the next working day).

For a step-by-step guide on moving your phone number to O2, please select your current mobile network from the drop down menu below:

Unfortunately, it isn’t possible to move Pay As You Go credit from your old mobile network to O2. For this reason, you should try to use it up before you move your phone number to O2.

Frequently Asked Questions

More Information

For more information, please see O2’s official website. You can also order a free Pay As You Go SIM card from O2.