Well, I’ve made the switch. I have my iPhone, my Broadband box ready to plug in when the switch is made at the exchange, and HWMBO has his new phone. It was surprisingly difficult to get it all yesterday.
At around 1, I left the house and went to Victoria Station, where I had lunch at my old haunt of Spudulike. I was intending to go to the O2 store on Victoria Street, but, lo! I walked down the street and it was no longer there. Oops! I thought to going to Angel for it, but the connections to the Bank branch of the Northern Line are fraught from that area, so I got off the Circle Line train at Embankment and walked along the Strand, where I found an O2 store.
It took nearly an hour to arrange everything. The shop assistant was enormously helpful (and cute, too!) and I eventually got:
- An 8GB iPhone;
- A Nokia phone for HWMBO;
- A mobile broadband dongle that is pay as you go (something I have been told is impossible to find!); and
- A home broadband box for O2 home broadband.
As I walked down the Strand to the bus stop, I got a call on my Blackberry. It was Vodafone, asking whether I’d like to reconsider getting my PAC to switch to O2. I informed him that I was walking away from the O2 shop with my swag and that I wanted my PACs, please. He was most gracious.
I returned home to find an email from BT asking whether I’d reconsider. It’s nice to be wanted (unless you’re a criminal).
This morning I called O2 and set the train in motion to get the broadband switched over. This took a little bit of time, but everything went very smoothly. It turns out that I get 6 months free broadband, and after that less than
Congratulations!
I hope the rest of your transition is smooth and easy for you.
If you’re interested in Emoji or a silent ringtone, then you may want to check out the LJ posts I made (here, and here).
Thanks for the info!