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Name: O2
Rating: 1.40

1.4 Rating 1,046 Reviews

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Delivery Methods	Postal Service, Courier
Average Delivery Time	Next Day
Accurate And Undamaged Orders	Greater than 72%
Customer Service
Communication Channels	Live Chat, Telephone, Email
Queries Resolved In	Over A Week
Customer Service	1.3 out of 5
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Refunds Process	Difficult

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"The Reading assistant manager of O2 lost the most important memories of the 1st month of my newborns life, just to get a sale.\r\nMy husband went in as he had broken his phone and needed a new one. I met him at the shop and when talking to the assistant manager he said I could get an upgrade with a \u00a3200 cash back. I thought it sounded good but said I need to back up my phone. Whilst looking through my phone to see how to back it up properly the assistant manager put his hand out and said let me do it... I thought he wouldn't be in that position if he didn't know what he was doing... I handed him the phone and proceed to tell him I have alot of invaluable memories on there that I do not want to lose to which I was told he knows what he's doing. He said it was backed up handed me my phone and we went home to find nothing from my old phone was coming up on the new one. We went back to O2 the same day to be told I was being impatient and that I needed to leave it and let it all load up on the new phone. Extremely worried and distressed I went on to my laptop to see if my Google had been backed up with photos and videos but there was nothing. I logged on to my samsung cloud, again nothing backed up. We left it 24hrs and went back to O2. We were waiting for the same guy to have a look when another assistant took alook and saw that the phone had not been backed up properly. Finally the AM took the phone, reset and charged it, something started to happen, he was addiment that he had done it right because all the photo's from before it was last backed up by myself had started coming through. I told him these were from 2023 but again I was being told I was wrong and that I needed to let the phone do it's thing. We went home another 24hrs went by and nothing. I knew all the memories of my third trimester to the 1st month of my newborns life were gone and there was no way of getting this back. I couldn't bring myself to go back in the shop and talk to the assistant manager without getting angry or bursting into tears. I emailed O2 complaints explaining what had happened, I wasn't even looking to get anything out of it, just to make sure that this doesn't happen to ANYONE ELSE! and I've heard nothing back from them. I'm beyond heartbroken and crying all over again writing this and so so angry that they treat their customers this way! I will be going back to O2 and demanding that my contract is cancelled. I want nothing to do with them ever again."

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Anonymous // 01/01/2019

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“I was talking to O2 staff member from South Africa amazing person very polite knows what he’s doing really should be training other people how to be talking to customers he knows exactly what he’s saying and he knows exactly what he’s doing. Appreciate all the work and effort that he did for me, his name is Nhlakanipho mtshal thank you very much and thank you for everything. Keep up the good work and to this managers let me tell you that he a great worker and you know how to talk to customers”

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Posted 4 months ago

“I cannot express how utterly disappointed I am with the shocking customer service I have received from O2 over the past year. This entire experience has been nothing short of a nightmare, and I feel completely let down at every step. It all began in September last year when I upgraded my contract, only to be met with appalling service. After speaking to multiple advisors and managers, I made it crystal clear that the *only* reason I was staying with O2 was for the Switch-Up option. I was given two different quotes, with the more expensive plan supposedly including this feature. I went ahead with that, believing everything had been sorted. Fast forward to this September when I tried to use the Switch-Up feature to upgrade to the new iPhone 16, only to find that the advisor who set me up last year hadn’t actually enabled it. Given how many times I stressed this point to numerous people, I find it hard to believe this was an accident. It’s astonishing that none of the managers or advisors I spoke to bothered to ensure my request was properly handled. Since the 26th of September this year, I’ve spent nearly 10.5 hours on the phone with O2, over the course of 7 out of the last 9 days. I’ve been promised 5 call backs, and *not a single one* has happened. The amount of time wasted on hold is outrageous, causing me to miss precious moments with my child – including soft play sessions and three bedtimes – all due to O2’s incompetence and dreadful internal processes. One call back was promised by someone named Lucia from the containment team. She was meant to review the transcripts to confirm my multiple requests for Switch-Up, but unsurprisingly, that call never came. Although she did email me asking for a time to call, nothing further materialised. Then, I spoke to a manager named Nelson, who assured me he would escalate my issue to his seniors and call me the next day. Again, nothing. I’ve had to explain my situation repeatedly to several different advisors, and each time I’m met with either empty apologies or more promises of call backs that never happen. The last person I spoke to even offered me £100 compensation, but it doesn’t come close to addressing the gravity of this mess. To make matters worse, I’ve been dealing with rude and condescending staff who clearly have no interest in actually helping resolve my complaint. One advisor even tried to lecture me on the meaning of "retention" when they clearly didn’t have a clue about my ongoing issue. O2’s entire complaints process is a shambles. The closed complaints on my account were dismissed without proper resolution, and none of the crucial details, like my subject access request or the terrible service I’ve endured, were recorded properly. It’s no wonder I’m not getting any call backs – they’re closing complaints without actually doing anything about them. I’ve even taken to Twitter in an attempt to get some kind of response from O2’s social media team, hoping they might actually help move things forward. Unfortunately, they were just as unhelpful as the rest of the team. However, they did manage to confirm that the manager I had spoken to hadn’t raised the Subject Access Request I’d made, nor the request for the recording of the phone calls. It’s appalling that I’ve had to chase this up through multiple channels, only to find out that basic requests were ignored. This just proves there is absolutely no effort being made to resolve my complaint. This has been one of the most frustrating experiences I’ve ever had with a company. The lack of communication, accountability, and basic competence is staggering. The fact that O2 has a 1.2-star rating on Trustpilot now makes complete sense.”

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Posted 4 months ago

“Initially pleasing, everything changed when they got their hands on my money. They lied to and encouraged me to invest more so that my profits would increase. After that, they stopped answering my emails and messages. Another victim of theirs discovered T O N E L I M I T E D., where she received help and received her money back in a short amount of time.”

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Posted 4 months ago

“I was charged £143 by O2 without any explanation, and they couldn’t even find my account to clarify why. To make matters worse, instead of resolving the issue, they threatened to put me in debt. This experience has been incredibly frustrating and unprofessional.”

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Posted 4 months ago

“I have a monthly rolling plan giving me 8gb of data but I can't get it to work, I have reset my phone and have tried at various venues from Lincoln to Stranraer with no luck. Looking again to switching my provider.”

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Posted 4 months ago

“Imagine the worst company that you have ever dealt with (prior to O2) go back and award them 5 stars, now that you have reset the bar for incompetence you can now award O2 one star.”

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Posted 4 months ago

“Hello over six months ago I fell victim to a scam namely someone signed a contract with O2 under my name.Despite complaints O2 is still demanding payment from me. Does anyone know where I can apply for help as they are not willing to do so.”

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Posted 4 months ago

“I asked for my 80-year-old mother to be released from her contract. She had moved shortly after renewing her contract but found her new flat did not have the coverage promised at the point of sale or on the coverage checker. As she was just outside the cooling off period 02 would not release her without a significant financial penalty. No compassion, no empathy, and VERY poor customer service (hours on the 'phone). I pointed out that this was about being flexible with the rules given the specific circumstances, but 'computer says no'. Raised a complaint, they simply refused to respond. So, it's OK - according to the 02 - for an 80-year-old woman to be forced either to sit shivering in the garden to use her 'phone or be forced to buy unwanted broadband and VoIP because the service she thought she was getting doesn't work at the home address. Terrible company.”

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Posted 4 months ago

“Worst O2 phone company ever block me over 18. Pound 😡areas. You ring up and your password.well 🙄you got to say the second letter fourth and third then you got to do it bloody twice 🙄they say gonna be running two hours 🤔this is now evening 😡🤣🤣🤣”

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Posted 4 months ago

“Went to 02 store in Fareham to buy a smart watch, the watch had a cash price but was told they only sell them on a monthly plan, I said what's the purpose of a cash price on display? To which they had no answer the assistant asked a colleague who said you've come to the worst place to buy a smartwatch, he said your best bet is shop online! Which I now have done and purchased the same watch. It's obvious that they want to sell contracts rather than goods but a very strange experience nevertheless”

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Posted 4 months ago

“If there was a rating lower I would give it no star or even negative. The worst customer service I have experienced. Network is rubbish, price is absurd and customer service is beyond hopeless. They talk to you rudely as if you did something wrong, all I wanted was to cancel my sim and have a PAC code, but I wasn't told I would be continuing the contract if I did not activate the PAC code, but guess what if you try to activate the PAC after 30 days it expires, so you'll end up paying for another month before you realise you still have an ongoing contract with O2. Please do not go on this network! Anything else is better like Three, EE, Vodafone, PlusNet, literally any other network provider is better in all aspects.”

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Posted 4 months ago

“Has an issue now for 2 months no signal ,to,d me via resolve that there was no issues with signal I have done daily checks on o2 , oh and of course there is issues in the area . My calls constantly dropping out , rang the o2 business complaints number to be told after 20 minutes to rung back? as the advisor said no one to speak to me ?. The worst company ever ,”

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Posted 4 months ago

“Switch to network was meant to take 24hrs, it's been a week and a half Call centres are in Sri Lanka and take forever to be forwarded to right person. Switching to voxi. O2 is a waste of money.”

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Posted 4 months ago

“I'm currently trying to switch away from o2 and keep my old number. With other providers this has always been simple and quick. With o2 it seems as though they are deliberately making it as difficult as possible to get my PAC code. Perhaps this is an attempt to get people to give up on switching. Apparently due to an error it will take 5 working days to get it. A little bit of googling and it seems as though this is a dodgy tactic many experience while people trying to leave o2. I now just keep being left on hold for extended periods of time. I suppose this is another attempt to make me give up.”

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Posted 4 months ago

“If i could give negative stars i would. I decided to leave o2 because the signal around my area is bad, so i was happily paying out the rest of my contact to leave to a network with better coverage. The women on the phone was explaining that i get charged the rest of my contract plus any additional days i use the phone until the number disconnects, which i did not understand and was trying to get her to explain better as that would mean paying twice. I asked to speak to a manager as maybe she was not explaining very well but she started getting very angry on the phone and raised her voice. At this point i had not raised my voice or got angry. This is the first time in my life i have experienced such appalling customer service… i was shocked. I still do not understand what she was trying to say as i don't understand paying until the end of my contact now, then getting charged again for any days i use the phone until i switch my number. I recommend to avoid o2, i have been to many places in the UK and never had much signal… had better with smaller companies like Smarty. That with the terrible customer service makes it a company never to waste your money with.”

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Posted 4 months ago

“I've been asking O2 to port my business number to my new SIM since 12 August; 5 weeks later and they still haven't managed to do it. I must have spent about 10 hours so far on the phone to their Customer Service team, but they are completely useless.”

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Posted 4 months ago

“The Reading assistant manager of O2 lost the most important memories of the 1st month of my newborns life, just to get a sale. My husband went in as he had broken his phone and needed a new one. I met him at the shop and when talking to the assistant manager he said I could get an upgrade with a £200 cash back. I thought it sounded good but said I need to back up my phone. Whilst looking through my phone to see how to back it up properly the assistant manager put his hand out and said let me do it... I thought he wouldn't be in that position if he didn't know what he was doing... I handed him the phone and proceed to tell him I have alot of invaluable memories on there that I do not want to lose to which I was told he knows what he's doing. He said it was backed up handed me my phone and we went home to find nothing from my old phone was coming up on the new one. We went back to O2 the same day to be told I was being impatient and that I needed to leave it and let it all load up on the new phone. Extremely worried and distressed I went on to my laptop to see if my Google had been backed up with photos and videos but there was nothing. I logged on to my samsung cloud, again nothing backed up. We left it 24hrs and went back to O2. We were waiting for the same guy to have a look when another assistant took alook and saw that the phone had not been backed up properly. Finally the AM took the phone, reset and charged it, something started to happen, he was addiment that he had done it right because all the photo's from before it was last backed up by myself had started coming through. I told him these were from 2023 but again I was being told I was wrong and that I needed to let the phone do it's thing. We went home another 24hrs went by and nothing. I knew all the memories of my third trimester to the 1st month of my newborns life were gone and there was no way of getting this back. I couldn't bring myself to go back in the shop and talk to the assistant manager without getting angry or bursting into tears. I emailed O2 complaints explaining what had happened, I wasn't even looking to get anything out of it, just to make sure that this doesn't happen to ANYONE ELSE! and I've heard nothing back from them. I'm beyond heartbroken and crying all over again writing this and so so angry that they treat their customers this way! I will be going back to O2 and demanding that my contract is cancelled. I want nothing to do with them ever again.”

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Posted 4 months ago

“Worst provider of all. My sim plan was transferred to watch plan in FEBRUARY by o2 and they STILL haven't rectified it leaving me with the inability to make calls or retrieve messages I can only operate via WiFi. Despite complaint to the communication ombudsman which has been accepted THE FAULT IS STILL THERE. Can't change provider and retain my number as the pac code is registered to a watch. Absolutely SHAMEFUL!!”

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Posted 4 months ago

“Keep harassing me for someone who does not nor ever has lived here. My dogs have more intelligence and communication skills than these onanists. I am not even a customer thankfully but returned letters, e mails, phone calls all ignored. Please sending someone threatening to my door so I can use reasonable force to remove them.”

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Posted 4 months ago

“Awful service 😔 so much of my time wasted. Plus the o2 shop was not helpful either.”

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Posted 4 months ago

O2 is rated 1.4 based on 1,046 reviews