What the O2, EE, Vodafone, Three and giffgaff apps let you do, and what only the network can do

Every UK network app here shows your usage and takes a payment. What separates them is the job you want in a hurry: an eSIM onto a new handset, a roaming pass at the gate, or the code that lets you leave. The blunt part: none of them changes what the network charges you.

Sent here by a 2011 to 2013 post on Priority Moments, Vodafone Guardian, pay by bill, Three data charges, Orange price rises, a giffgaff voucher, a Lebara SIM, the Virgin Mobile app or renting a phone from O2? Where each went is the last section. Otherwise start with the three shortcodes, then the cap and roaming. Our answer and the table ↓

Do this before you touch an app

A STAC ends a number for good, but only once you hand it to a new network. SMARTY's leaving article, read 13 September 2026, prints both halves: Requesting a PAC or STAC does not close your account. Only when you use the code with another network will your SMARTY account be closed. and We cannot revert terminated numbers, so make sure this is what you'd like to do before requesting and using a STAC. So a code texted by mistake costs you nothing provided you never pass it on. Tesco Mobile, read the same day, says so plainly: If you request a PAC or STAC and change your mind, you don't have to do anything. After 30 days the code will expire and you'll stay with your current network. Hand a STAC over, though, and no app can undo it.

All three codes are free and travel as plain text rather than data, so they work when the app will not load, the same fallback our guide to texting without mobile data turns on. PAC to 65075 asks for a code that keeps your number, STAC to 75075 asks for one that ends it once it is used, INFO to 85075 prices your exit, all three printed on EE's leaving page, read 11 September 2026. Every code is valid for 30 days on all nine leaving pages opened for this article, so an unused one lapses and changes nothing. How long it takes to arrive does depend on who you are leaving, all read 13 September 2026: Tesco Mobile says it arrives within 1 minute, is valid for 30 days, and the old service is cancelled within one day of your handing it over; O2 and giffgaff both say within 60 seconds and both attach the same condition, that you have to be in the United Kingdom to request it; but Vodafone says We'll send you a code within two hours and it lasts for 30 days, so on Vodafone a code that has not arrived in a minute has not failed, and texting again only starts the wait over.

Two things narrow that text, and both catch people. SMARTY, Three and iD Mobile, all read 11 September 2026, each want your date of birth in the message, in SMARTY's words Text PAC along with your Date of Birth (ddmmyy) to 65075, so a bare PAC silently fails on those three. And an account holding more than one number is sent somewhere else on every page opened here: Three to a phone call, if you've got more than 1 number with us, please call 0333 338 1082 to get your PAC; EE to the website or a call, If you have multiple numbers on your account, you can only do this by logging into your online account or by calling us; Tesco Mobile to My Account; and O2 out of the text service altogether, along with anyone holding an Apple Watch on a Pay Monthly contract. EE says nothing about a watch.

The clearest spend cap here

Rating 3.3 from 128,281 reviews · Installs 10,000,000+ · Free · no in-app purchases · Developer O2 UK · Listing updated 8 September 2026 · Contains ads: No · Google Play listing, read on the UK storefront 13 September 2026

It settles three of these jobs outright and half of another, all read 11 September 2026. O2's Spend Cap page publishes nine settable amounts, £0, £5, £10, £15, £20, £30, £60, £100 or £200; O2's leaving page lists Sign in to My O2 among three ways to get a PAC, where EE's leaving page gives the website, a text and a phone call, and the two Vodafone help pages opened here, on getting a PAC and on keeping your number, describe the text route and name My Vodafone only for checking a leaving fee; and O2's eSIM page puts the QR code for a new SIM only order straight into the account, We'll pop a QR code into your My O2 account, while an existing customer swapping one is sent to getting in touch with us or visiting a store. Roaming cover is a fourth job it takes: O2's Travel page, read the same day, says you get the O2 Travel Bolt On by texting TRAVEL to 23336 or add it in My O2 at £7 a day (for the days that you use it) in 75 destinations outside Europe, where the roaming pages at EE, Vodafone and Three, all read the same day, print a text, a browser or no in-app route at all beside their own passes. The cap section carries the catch, because that charge sits outside a Spend Cap.

The blunt part: joining the rewards means a second app. O2's Priority page, read the same day, gives one way in and only one, simply download the Priority app, and that listing is published by O2 UK under the title Priority Rewards & Tickets, which is the name to search for, rated 4.3 from 233,897 reviews on the UK storefront, read 13 September 2026, a point above the account app. O2's own My O2 help page, dated 30 June 2025 and read the same day, then surfaces those offers under an Offers tab inside My O2, so you browse in one app and join in the other. Three splits its rewards the same way, into Three+. Vodafone does not: VeryMe Rewards sits on the home screen of your My Vodafone app, on its own VeryMe page, read 11 September 2026.

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Two ways to the cap, none to the exit

Rating 3.1 from 177,408 reviews · Installs 10,000,000+ · Free · no in-app purchases · Developer EE · Listing updated 4 August 2026 · Contains ads: No · Google Play listing, read on the UK storefront 13 September 2026

EE's Spend Cap page, read 11 September 2026, puts the cap under Manage, then Set a Spend Cap, and is candid about the lag: Increases will take effect immediately and decreases will take effect at the start of the next billing month. It lists EU Roaming per day charges among what a cap can restrict, which the O2 Travel Bolt On below is not. EE's eSIM page, read the same day, downloads a replacement eSIM inside the app: Log in to the EE app, Select Manage, Select Mobile and SIMs, Select Check Settings, Select Replace my SIM/eSIM.

The blunt part: at 3.1 on the UK storefront, read 13 September 2026, it is the lowest rated of these five, and leaving is the job EE routes away from the app. EE's leaving page, read the same day, offers the app only for your personalised offers and gives three routes out: request via EE online, text PAC to 65075 or contact us by phone.

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Prices the pass, texts to add it

Rating 4.3 from 183,719 reviews · Installs 10,000,000+ · Free · no in-app purchases · Developer Vodafone Limited · Listing updated 2 September 2026 · Contains ads: No · Google Play listing, read on the UK storefront 13 September 2026

Vodafone's Extras page, read 11 September 2026, prices the 8 day European Roaming pass at £16 and the 15 day at £21, heads both blocks If your plan doesn't include roaming in Europe and you don't buy a pass, you'll be charged £2.75 a day. Log in to My Vodafone or visit the My Vodafone app, and prints against each pass itself Text 8DAYEUROPE to 40506 or go to My Vodafone online. The app is named in the section header above the prices, not in the add route printed beside each pass, so what Vodafone actually spells out for the pass itself is a text or My Vodafone online, which is a browser. The £2.75 is conditional: check first whether your plan already covers Europe, because Vodafone's global roaming page, read the same day, names Euro Roam as 52 destinations in Zone A and B and says All our Pay monthly plans include Zone A. That page also caps both passes under a 25GB roam fair use policy, charges £3.84 a GB used above the limit, and warns of extra charges if You're roaming for more than 62 days.

What neither page settles is the basis. Neither the Extras page nor the global roaming page, both read 11 September 2026, says whether the £2.75 falls on every day of the trip or only on a day you use the phone, where EE ties its daily charge to 24 hours from the moment you perform a chargeable activity, Three to a daily roaming charge to unlock your allowances for 24 hours, Sky to a pass that lasts 24 hours once you use data, make a call or send a text, and O2 to the days that you use it, all read the same day. So no daily against pass sum is printed here for Vodafone. One comparison survives the gap: the £16 pass runs 8 days from arrival, and six days of the daily charge comes to £16.50, so the pass wins from the sixth charged day upward.

The blunt part is the eSIM. Vodafone's eSIM page, read 11 September 2026, replaces a phone eSIM by email rather than in the app, We'll automatically email you a new QR code scanned under Go to Settings, Choose Mobile data, Add Data plan; the one in-account swap it documents is for an Apple Watch. EE and Three both replace a phone eSIM inside their own apps, and O2 drops the code into the account, all read the same day. The listing adds a second limit, You must be on a device with your Vodafone UK SIM card to use the app, and first registration needs the mobile network, not Wi-Fi, which is worth doing at home rather than at the gate.

Wi-Fi calling is the other job where these apps genuinely differ, and of the three networks whose pages were opened for it Vodafone is the only one that puts the switch inside the app. Vodafone's own explainer, an article dated 23 August 2021 and read 11 September 2026, gives the path Open the My Vodafone app, Tap the Manage Bars & Extras button, Tap the Calling options button, then tap the slider for WiFi and 4G calling to the 'on' position, and gates it on the same page: you need one of our more recent price plans as well as a compatible phone, and those plan names are five years old, so check yours before you count on it. EE's help page, read the same day, puts it outside the app altogether, You don't need an app or any additional equipment and Turn on WiFi Calling in your phone settings, with no account gate: it is available to anyone with EE who has a compatible device. O2's page, read the same day, switches it on from the network side instead, if you have a 4G or 5G handset and a good WiFi connection, it should also be enabled automatically. Our Wi-Fi calling guide covers the handset half. The other eleven brands on this page were not opened for Wi-Fi calling, so nothing is claimed for them either way.

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The one carrying an ads label

Rating 4.2 from 250,322 reviews · Installs 10,000,000+ · Free · no in-app purchases · Developer Hutchison 3G UK Ltd · Listing updated 22 August 2026 · Contains ads: Yes · Google Play listing, read on the UK storefront 13 September 2026

All three pages read 11 September 2026: the cap sits under Manage plan, then Spend Cap, on Three's own page, a replacement eSIM under Manage SIM, then Replace SIM, on its eSIM page, and leaving is in the app too, its leaving page giving Log into the Three app, Tap Account, Tap Help, Tap Leave Three, the fullest set here, with My3, a text and a phone call alongside it.

The blunt part: of the fourteen listings read on the UK storefront on 13 September 2026, Three's alone carries the Contains ads label. Its Data safety block also declares Data can't be deleted, and that one is not Three's alone: My Vodafone and Tesco Mobile declare the same line on the same read, while ten of the remaining eleven offer deletion on request and Lyca Mobile UK publishes no deletion line at all.

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The app you cannot route around

Rating 4.2 from 89,279 reviews · Installs 5,000,000+ · Free · no in-app purchases · Developer giffgaff Limited · Listing updated 9 September 2026 · Contains ads: No · Google Play listing, read on the UK storefront 13 September 2026

giffgaff's eSIM article, read 11 September 2026, answers flatly: giffgaff eSIMs are activated through the giffgaff app only, with no QR codes, SM-DP+ addresses or manual codes, so four of the five routes in our eSIM transfer guide are shut.

Leaving is open by contrast, both articles read the same day: the PAC article offers your profile and settings page beside the 65075 text, and the credit spend cap article puts a £45 monthly cap under Account, then Service settings, off by default. That is a fixed amount rather than O2's range, but it is a cap and it is in the app. The blunt part is abroad: the EU roaming article allows a maximum of 5GB per plan, not per month or per visit, and only if the plan holds at least 5GB of UK data, so a smaller goodybag roams on less, then 10p per MB.

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Check the host, then the listing

Check the host before the brand, because the masts decide the coverage and the brand decides very little. Virgin Media O2's blog of 18 December 2025, read 11 September 2026, names its own tenants in passing, the majority of our customers, and those of giffgaff, Tesco Mobile and Sky Mobile which use our network. Its own About page, read 11 September 2026, closes all three in one sentence: we're the network of choice for mobile virtual network operators giffgaff and Sky Mobile, as well as managing a 50:50 joint venture with Tesco for Tesco Mobile. Vodafone, in a press release of 8 June 2021 read the same day, says Lebara runs on the Vodafone network. BT Group, in a release of 27 June 2023 read the same day, says Lyca Mobile's UK customers will gain direct access to EE's 4G and 5G radio access network. And VodafoneThree lists SMARTY, Talkmobile and VOXI beside Vodafone UK and Three UK, its owner announcing on 30 July 2026 that it now owns 100% of VodafoneThree. Because the host decides the coverage, check the host's own checker at your postcode before you choose between brands. Three checkers opened for this page on 11 September 2026: O2's, which answers for giffgaff, Tesco Mobile and Sky Mobile at once because all three run on the same masts; Three's, which takes a postcode under Check coverage in your area and answers for iD Mobile; and EE's, which answers for Lyca Mobile UK. Lebara runs on Vodafone, but no Vodafone coverage checker page was located on this read, three candidate addresses returning HTTP 404, so no checker is named here for Lebara, SMARTY, Talkmobile or VOXI.

Then install the right one, because three of these are easy to get wrong. Three's rewards sit in a second app, Three+, rated 3.8 from 9,241 reviews on the UK storefront, read 13 September 2026, so the main Three app is the one that holds the bill. The My Tesco Mobile listing is published by TescoMobileIreland and points at tescomobile.ie, read the same day, so the UK app is the one called Tesco Mobile. And a UK Play Store search returned no standalone Sky Mobile app, checked 11 September 2026: Sky Mobile sits inside the listing titled My Sky | TV, Broadband, Mobile, which needs Android 10, so an old handset can be locked out of its own network, as our phone that stopped getting updates guide explains.

Eight brands share the last row of the table. Brand by brand, this is what each one is.

• Tesco Mobile: not a tenant but a half-owner, because Virgin Media O2's About page, read 11 September 2026, describes managing a 50:50 joint venture with Tesco for Tesco Mobile where it calls giffgaff and Sky Mobile virtual operators running on its network. Its own page, read the same day, states We share O2's network, giving you 99% coverage across the UK on 4G and keeps UK allowances working in 48 destinations across the EU and beyond at no extra cost. Rated 4.5 from 72,833 reviews (UK storefront, read 13 September 2026).
• MyLebara: on Vodafone's network, and the highest rated of the fourteen at 4.7 from 172,852 reviews (UK storefront, read 13 September 2026). lebara.co.uk returned HTTP 403 to this read, so no Lebara roaming allowance is quoted here.
• SMARTY: a VodafoneThree brand and the lowest rated of the fourteen at 2.8 from 2,620 reviews (UK storefront, read 13 September 2026); its leaving article, read the same day, puts a PAC under Manage plan and Leave SMARTY in the dashboard.
• iD Mobile: rated 4.4 from 16,053 reviews (UK storefront, read 13 September 2026), and its community article, read the same day, makes the app the first route out, Tap Plan then Tap Leave iD. iD's own roaming page states iD runs on the Three network, read 5 September 2026, which is the freshest first-party read available because idmobile.co.uk returned HTTP 403 to a full browser User-Agent on 11 September 2026; Which?, read the same day, also places iD Mobile on Three's network.
• My Talkmobile: a VodafoneThree brand, rated 4.4 from 1,167 reviews on the smallest install band here, 100,000+ (UK storefront, read 13 September 2026), and the only one of the fourteen whose Data safety block declares Data isn't encrypted, read the same day. Talkmobile is also the brand Which? scores highest below, on customer satisfaction rather than on anything its app does.
• Lyca Mobile UK: on EE's network since the BT Wholesale deal above, rated 3.7 from 3,695 reviews (UK storefront, read 13 September 2026).
• My Sky: Sky Mobile runs on Virgin Media O2's network and the account app is the listing titled My Sky | TV, Broadband, Mobile, rated 3.1 from 29,748 reviews (UK storefront, read 13 September 2026); sky.com/mobile, read the same day, prices Roaming Passport Plus at £2 a day in 120 destinations and starts it automatically for 24 hours when you Use more than 10MB of data, Make a call or Send a text, so one call on a quiet day still costs £2; the same page also states Use your calls and text allowance and up to 25GB of data per billing cycle whilst travelling using our Roaming Passport Plus.
• VOXI: a VodafoneThree brand with no network app listed on the UK Play storefront, checked 13 September 2026, and voxi.co.uk returned HTTP 403 to this read, so nothing further is quoted for it here.

One independent comparison exists, and it is about the providers rather than their apps. Which?, on a page stamped 28 July 2026 and read 11 September 2026, surveyed 5,137 members of the UK public who currently have a mobile phone contract in January 2026: Talkmobile 83 percent, Tesco Mobile 81, giffgaff, SMARTY and VOXI 79, 1p Mobile and Lebara 78, Asda Mobile 77, EE 74, iD Mobile and Sky Mobile 73, Vodafone 72, Lycamobile 68, O2 67 and Three last on 65. Two of those fifteen are missing from the list above, and both outscore all four big networks. A UK Play search returned no 1p Mobile app, checked 11 September 2026. Asda Mobile does publish one, Asda mobile by Asda Stores Ltd, and at 1.9 from 587 reviews on the UK storefront, read the same day, it is rated below every app in the table above. Every other brand on this page sits somewhere in that list, and none of it was earned by an app. It is also satisfaction rather than coverage or speed; the headline scores are readable but the nine columns behind them sit under Which?'s Sign up to reveal and Get Digital access £9.99 per month; and the samples behind the smaller brands are thin, the same table resting Talkmobile's score on 66 responses and the two newcomers on 59 and 58, against 1,028 for EE.

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The cap, and the hole in it

On the five networks with a section above, a cap is an offer rather than a default, and it post-dates the contract some readers here are still on. EE's Spend Cap page, read 11 September 2026, gives it to customers who joined or upgraded on or after 1 October 2018, and O2's warns If you took out your contract before 1 October 2018, you may need to upgrade to add a Spend Cap. Three, read the same day, sets no such date for consumers: it puts the cap under Manage plan then Spend Cap in the Three app and under Plan in My3 with no join-date condition, and keeps its 7 February 2022 line for the block headed Three Business customer, which is what a consumer following that link lands on. Sky is the exception, and the exception is narrow: sky.com/mobile, read 11 September 2026, says We also automatically set a data roaming spend cap limit of £45, which you can switch off or on. It's on by default, links the change to sky.com/myaccount rather than to the app, and covers data roaming with it and nothing else, which still makes it the only cap named on this page that its own network says is on before you do anything. The same page does the sum for the rest of your spending, telling a Sky customer that if you want to use Roaming Passport Plus for a week, set your spend cap to £14 (£2 x 7 days).

The blunt part is the exclusion list, and each of the four networks below publishes one, all read 11 September 2026: EE cannot restrict data pass purchases, add-on purchases, phone insurance or charge to bill services, Three excludes Add-ons, insurance and using ThreePay, and Vodafone's Spend Manager excludes Extras, including Roaming Passes and Anything you Charge to Bill. O2, our pick both for the clearest cap and for adding roaming cover in the app, is no different: its Travel page says If you have a Spend Cap, the price of the O2 Travel Bolt On won't be included in your Spend Cap, so the £7 a day priced below sits outside the cap we recommend, and Three's Go Roam page warns that a cap set too low can leave you unable to roam at all.

Charge to Bill is the hole worth closing by hand, and Vodafone documents the switch that closes it. Vodafone's Charge to Bill page, read 11 September 2026, calls it a function that lets you buy digital goods and services and have the price of these added to your monthly Vodafone bill, concedes that Spend Manager does not cover every type of Charge to Bill purchase, and then gives the remedy: You can control additional charges by applying a bar to stop all charges, or going to My Vodafone Spend Manager to set a monthly spend limit for each handset in your account. A cap catches out-of-allowance calls, texts and data and little above them, including the premium rate subscriptions our spam calls guide covers.

Daily charge against pass, with the sums

O2 is the outlier: O2's EU roaming page, read 11 September 2026, claims it is the only major network that lets everyone roam freely in the EU at no extra cost, up to 25GB. Further out it charges, and only in a bounded list: O2's Travel page, read the same day, prices the Bolt On at £7 a day (for the days that you use it) in 75 destinations outside Europe. Beyond those, standard roaming rates apply.

EE publishes the numbers that make the arithmetic possible: EE's roaming page, read 11 September 2026, prices the EU daily charge at £2.72 and the seven day pass at £16.50, and its Plan Price Guide of 23 July 2025, read the same day, ties each daily charge to 24 hours from the moment you perform a chargeable activity, so what you count is days of use, not days away. Seven chargeable days is £19.04 against £16.50, so a week of daily use favours the pass; four days is £10.88, and it does not. The same page prices a 12 day pass at £27.50 against £32.64 for twelve charged days, so a fortnight favours the pass by a wider margin than a week does. Outside Europe EE prices passes rather than a daily rate: its Zone 1, which the page says includes United States, China, Australia, India and more, is £6 for a 24 hour pass or £30 for seven days, so a week in the United States costs £30 on EE where O2 charges £7 a day and Three £8 or £7. EE's roaming page documents no in-app purchase route for any of them: it says You'll receive a welcome text when you land in your destination, which will link you to your pass options and If you're currently abroad, visit add-on.ee.co.uk to get any of our passes.

Three has no single price, and what you pay depends on when you joined and how far you go. Its Go Roam page, read 11 September 2026, splits the scheme into three bands, and only the cheapest is European. Go Roam in Europe covers 49 Go Roam in Europe destinations and charges £2.75 a day to anyone who joined on or after 18 December 2025, £2 a day to anyone who joined between 1 October 2021 and 17 December 2025, and £2 on a SIM Only 24 month Lite plan taken from 1 June 2025 with 25GB or 120GB of data. Go Roam Around the World covers 22 destinations and charges those first two cohorts £8 and £7, and Around the World Extra covers 92 at the same two prices, roughly three times the European rate. The ceiling is the same in all three bands: under the heading Our Fair Use Policy the page says On Pay Monthly? You can use up to 12GB of your data allowance in any Go Roam destination, so £2.75 a day on Three buys 12GB where the same £2.75 a day on Vodafone runs to a 25GB fair use limit. None of it reaches everyone: Daily roaming charges don't apply if you're on a Pay As You Go or your Pay Monthly plan started before 1 October 2021, which is why the page tells you to check your own plan in My3 or the Three app. Offline maps cut the commonest reason to need any of it.

The bill nobody plans for is the one that arrives without a trip, and of every page opened for this article only Three's documents it. Its Go Roam page, read 11 September 2026, calls this inadvertent roaming and gives three causes: living or travelling near an international border, living or travelling near a coastline, where your device may connect to a maritime network, and being on a plane, where your device may connect to an airline network. The warning arrives as a text, If you connect to a network in a new destination, we'll send you a text explaining any charges you can expect there, and anyone who once opted out of those can turn them back on by texting START to 330. One border is handled for you: the same page excludes the Republic of Ireland from the 12GB fair use limit and adds The Republic of Ireland is also excluded from the daily roaming charge. The fix that works everywhere sits in the handset rather than in any app here, and the same page names it: Switch off Data Roaming, before you travel.

What the app cannot reach

A price rise arrives through the app and cannot be stopped there, and the amount is set by the network. Uswitch's price rise table, stamped 6 August 2026 and read 11 September 2026, gives the 2026 figures network by network: EE and BT Mobile £2.50 a month on SIM only plans and £4 on handset plans for contracts taken out from 31 July 2025; O2 and Virgin Mobile £2.50, announced 23 October 2025; Three £1.80 up to 4GB, £1.90 from 5GB to 99GB and £2.30 above 100GB for contracts from 9 November 2025; Vodafone £1.50 on Basics and £2.50 on everything else for contracts from 12 November 2025; Sky Mobile £1.50 for contracts from 14 February 2026; and it names giffgaff, Talkmobile, Lebara, iD Mobile, SMARTY and VOXI among the providers with no annual rise at all, with Tesco Mobile Yet to announce. The same table's Option to cancel column, read 11 September 2026, marks O2 and Virgin Mobile, EE and BT Mobile, Three, Vodafone and Tesco Mobile all Unable to cancel for free because the rise is written into the contract terms, marks Sky Mobile Unable to cancel contract for free, and marks giffgaff Free to cancel contract or switch network, which is why the exit route in the first section matters more to most readers than the size of the rise. Vodafone prints its own in the footer of its price changes page, read the same day: The monthly cost will increase each year on 1 April by £2.50 for Pay monthly plans with Airtime/Data. The sequel is already signed: the Telecoms Consumer Charter, on a page carrying Updated 19 June 2026 and read 11 September 2026, has ten providers including BT Group, VMO2, VodafoneThree, Sky and TalkTalk committing that for customers still on legacy inflation-linked terms April 2026 will be the final increase expressed in these terms for the core subscription. What changed is the form of words.

Before any app, check the handset. Three's coverage page states We've said goodbye to 3G and O2's coverage checker offers 2G, 4G, 5G, 5G+ and O2 Satellite coverage and no 3G layer at all, both read 11 September 2026, while Virgin Media O2, on 18 December 2025, says the other operators have completed their switch-offs and that a 3G only handset will still be able to make calls and send text messages as they do today, but they won't be able to use mobile data. The apps have a floor of their own, read on the UK Play storefront (gl=GB, hl=en_GB) on 13 September 2026: Three+ runs from Android 5.0, giffgaff, SMARTY, Tesco Mobile and MyLebara from 7.0, My O2, O2 Priority, EE and Three from 8.0, My Vodafone, iD Mobile and My Talkmobile from 9, and My Sky and Lyca Mobile UK from 10. A handset old enough to have found this page may run none of them.

If a post from 2011 to 2013 sent you here, this is where those things went, each read 11 September 2026. Orange and T-Mobile became EE, by its launch release of 10 September 2012: EE is the company that runs the Orange and T-Mobile brands in the UK. Virgin Mobile has been folded into O2, which says We've streamlined our mobile offering and moved all Virgin Mobile services over to O2, and Priority Moments is the Priority app above. Renting a phone from O2 is O2 Switch Up, Renting a phone from O2 is O2 Switch Up, a swap every 11 months, included with Plus Plans and Ultimate Plans at no extra cost, or you can add it to a Classic Plan as a Bolt On for £6.99 a month, and not available on SIM Only plans. Pay by bill is Charge to Bill, which a cap alone does not close, and the Three data charges of that era are what a Spend Cap bounds. A UK Play Store search returned no Vodafone Guardian app, checked 11 September 2026; Vodafone's parental-controls product is Secure Net, though no page opened here connects the two. A Lebara SIM still runs on Vodafone, in the MVNO section. giffgaff vouchers did not go: giffgaff's credit article still sells them through supermarkets, newsagents and Post Offices, for credit or for a plan. Nothing opened for this page names a successor to the T-Mobile Full Monty tariff or the EE 4G trial, both of which were launch-period offers rather than products that still exist.

The honest limit: none of this reaches the network itself. When an app will not connect the fault is usually below it, which our mobile data guide works through.

Checked 13 September 2026: first publication; all fourteen UK network Play listings were re-read on the United Kingdom English storefront (gl=GB, hl=en_GB) on 13 September 2026, two days after the first read of 11 September 2026, and every star average and review count above is from that re-read; SMARTY was the only rounded rating to move, from 2.9 to 2.8, which is what makes a minimum Android version and a UK weighted star average visible at all, and separately O2's own help page still states Android 7.1 for My O2 where that listing states 8.0. Every page linked above was opened with a full browser User-Agent on 11 September 2026. Withheld, because the changelog is the only place they may be named: Lebara's included roaming allowance, VOXI's roaming prices and the wording and menu path of iD Mobile's Bill Cap, because lebara.co.uk, voxi.co.uk and idmobile.co.uk all returned HTTP 403 to this read. iD Mobile does publish a Bill Cap, its own site navigation carrying a Bill Capping item pointing at idmobile.co.uk/help-and-support/capping when that navigation is served through community.idmobile.co.uk, read 11 September 2026, so the table says its page was unread rather than that no cap exists, and its host network is quoted in the MVNO section from a 5 September 2026 read of the same blocked site. Also withheld: an EU fair-use cap for EE, published nowhere; every Ofcom-only rule, all four pages returning 403; and Tesco Mobile's out-of-zone data rate, absent from its own page on this read. One claim carried by an earlier draft was dropped rather than published: that My Vodafone is where a European roaming pass is bought, because on the Extras page the line naming the app is the section header above the prices while the add route printed against each pass is a text to 40506 or My Vodafone online. On reads: the host statement quoted in the MVNO section is on news.virginmediao2.co.uk/about-us/, which returned HTTP 200 and about 5,500 characters of text to a full browser User-Agent on 11 September 2026, while www.virginmediao2.co.uk/about-us/ returned HTTP 200 on the same read but rendered as a JavaScript shell of about 1,500 characters carrying none of it, which is how an earlier draft came to record the sentence as absent.