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I would consider switching to GiffGaff from O2 itself except the former doesn't offer visual voicemail where as the latter does.
How much is Visual Voicemail worth to you? Never having been on O2, except with a cheap Nokia many years ago, I don't know what I'm missing - but GiffGaff is much cheaper than O2, so I'll probably move to them when my Vodafone contract expires in April.
I had a 3 mobile broadband dongle for a while - the coverage was excellent, except for my flat, where it was non-existent. Then the dongle died, after about 3 months. The customer service was the absolute worst of the stereotypical Indian call centres, it took me nearly 4 hours to cancel my one-month rolling contract. I'll think long and hard before I go back to 3.
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So no one can confirm what networks are actually utilising HSPA+ as opposed to bog standard HSPA?
I've heard it's not the same as or as good as the built in visual voicemail. There seem to be mixed opinions on it.
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Visual voicemail is an important feature to me and only O2 offers it here in the UK as far as I'm aware.
I've never understood why visual voicemail is limited to O2, it's weird! I'd hade heard over a year ago the other networks were to get it but still nada
Funny here in the USA AT&T offered it free on the iPhone but all other phones you had to pay, Verizon said they were not going to offer it on their iPhone but caved in when they got the iphone 4 as they compete with AT&T.
All Carriers in the US offer it free now with the iPhone, but charge for it on other phones, not sure why as they do not use different amounts of data in order to work Visual Voicemail.
I can't understand why anyone would go anywhere other than GiffGaff, unless they have a problem with O2 reception, or they need tethering (I use a MiFi with a GiffGaff data sim). They are so much cheaper than anyone else, they offer truely unlimited internet, their first level support (other "motivated" users) is the best. Ok, if you need something that requires one of their staff to intervene it can be a little tardy (as they have so few), but they do seem to get there in the end.
That's something I massively don't understand.
Giffgaff is a subsidiary firm of O2. Why do O2 have a subsidiary company in direct competition with their own? Considering giffgaff is supposedly so much better. Why don't they just integrate the 2? It's a pity. I've never had visual voicemail so couldn't say whether it's a killer feature or anything for me. 
I'm a new convert to both iPhone and GiffGaff; so far I'm very happy with both but as I'm a bit of a noob, my tastes may not be highly sophisticated!
I have been on a 3 sim only 12 month contract since January and have had no problems at all with it. I will let it slide to a rolling contract at the end of the 12 months. I bought a sim free 4S a couple of weeks after it was released and am very happy with that too. I have no plans to enter into another contract with a subsidised phone in the future.
As others have mentioned, I use Hullomail for my voice mail. The app works just as well as the O2 visual voice mail I used to have with O2 on my 3GS.
As others have mentioned, I use Hullomail for my voice mail. The app works just as well as the O2 visual voice mail I used to have with O2 on my 3GS.