Most of you are well versed with O2 handys and services . This article gives a bit of tips and tricks.

Well, O2 is now owned by Telefonica since some time and they scrapped many populous packages and introduced new packages which are mentioned below:

The O2 people are going to change the options of their Telephony Contracts from today night (05/05/2009). There will be no more Genion Contracts anymore. i.e., No home zone numbers. This is for the new  contracts and old ones remain as long as you extend them.

The new contracts for telephony are as follows:
Student or Non student does not matter - If you are a student, you get 150 sms free- no reduction in the prices as it used to be.

O2O - No mobile telephone - no monthly fixed price, per call 15 cents, per SMS 15 cents - When you donot call you donot pay anything - If you call more with this (within Germany and also SMS withing Germany) and your bill cost more than 60€, You donot need to pay more than 60€ a month.
Inclusive 100 mins - With mobile 25 € per month; no mobile: 10€ per month
Mobile Flat - With mobile 35 € permonth and no mobile: 20€ per month (Like old Genion L)
O2 My Handy - not dependent on your contract. You can select your own handy and pay for it in monthly installments or in one go.

Unfortunately the O2 Genion M, S are no more existing. More information: www.o2online.de

The following text is from the old O2 analysis and is no more valid and it is kept here only for historical reasons.

 Here is some information regarding what O₂  offers:

Basic things to do on O2:

• Do Anmeldung (register) for BONUS program on the O2 website without fail , it gives you points for working online for your needs and for the bills you pay for calls.
• Eg: Changing your contact information (address,email..) , bank account information , online bill(rechnung) etc ..
• Make your bill as Online Rechnung which is informed (not delivered as attachment) via Email.
• Web2SMS was free in the past and no more (19 cents now).

So the main objective of O₂ to introduce the bonus program(no more) is to make customers use online features . This bonus program will NOT be activated unless we do anmeldung(register) on the website..just goto Bonusprogram and click anmeldung. and then you will be getting 200 points for doing so. and later one will be getting points for the bills you pay monthly and using online features on the o2online.de

With these bonus points one can gain some benefits..there are some things/services in offer for these bonus points (eg: a O₂ towel for 2000 points..forget about it..but the most important thing is to change your HOMEZONE^* with 200 points and in turn after changing you will get 100 points for changing it online..hence you spend only 100 points which normally if you do by calling  O₂ hotline or visiting O₂ shop will be charged 7.50 euros)

But there is a lot of confusion in changing HOMEZONE online..
well actually its not on our side. There is no one step solution.

Here it goes...

• 1. Go to Bonus program ..points einloesen and select homezone wechsel and then you will see -200 points in your bonus points.
• 2. You cannot change the homezone at this point. You have to wait for the next working day ..and on the next day goto Homezone Aendern and select new homezone and say OK and then Auftrag Senden (this is the final OK). Here it shows you an info message like "You will be charged 7.50 for changing homezone  or if you have already used bonus points it will be adjusted for the points, in German).. and then once its done you willl get an SMS for the new homezone in the next minutes or next day morning if done during the night.
• 3. You will get a discount of 6.49 euros on your bill for using this homezone change feature on o2online.de, from step 2 above.
• Changing homezone within the same city will not change your current homezone number.
  
  Here is the link to check your address for homezone
  http://shop4.o2online.de/o2/interessenten/necos/service/homezonecheck/index.html
  
  While checking homezone do NOT give  the word (street as) strasse (Eg: Give Berghamer instead of Berghamer Strasse, otherwise one will get the message saying the street is not found or homezone not possible for this address).
  
  Homezone address can be any address (where you want the homezone to be instead of where your home actually is) and necessarily NOT be your home address/contact address.
  
  Select a street which covers major part of your need. Eg: Select a street which is in between 2 places where you want  homezone to be or in stadtmitte to get for whole stadt(if small  towns)  etc..Use your intellectual mapping skills to get the  maximum benefit.
• Only one feature per day can be used on O2 online site.
• One cannot change as often the features to exploit bonus points.Minimum of 6 months duration required for the next change to get points, however its trivial and there is no concrete procedure, say some abuse may not get points and kind off. If you read the * at the bottom of the page you will find great text with numerous conditions

* HOMEZONE is another auxillary number provided for calling your handy alike land line. eg: If your HOMEZONE is registered in Munich , you will get an additional number which starts with Munich code 089 , and then the number. It just behaves like a land number for callers and is callable only if your handy is in that specified region of 1km radius or even more. 

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