Purchase options and recurring plans

All of our products except the O2 and Vodafone Standard and Premium products are single-purchase plans, unless the product is explicitly described as recurring or has been converted into a recurring plan by an available extension option. For single-purchase plans, only one payment is taken.

There is an option to extend some Vodafone Travel, O2 Travel and EE Travel products, including EE Europe Travel, so that you can keep the telephone number for longer. Where this option is available and used, it converts that travel plan into a recurring plan.
Note: This extension option does not apply to Three UK or Three Travel products as they are single-purchase, one-off plans.

When you buy some plans, including Vodafone, O2 and EE plans, you can choose to pay for 3, 6 or 12 months in advance to save money. This advance payment covers the first period only: when it ends, your subscription continues monthly at the plan's monthly price, with the same number. Subscriptions that used to renew every 3, 6, 9 or 12 months now renew monthly in the same way. The advance payment can only be chosen when you buy a plan: an existing monthly subscription cannot be changed to it. Apart from this, each subscription keeps its price unless we notify you of a price change. We cannot lower it or match it to the price of another subscription or a newer offer.

Please note that extending a plan will not help restore service in the calendar month that a spendcap has been triggered. The only way to restore service is to wait until the start of a new calendar month.

Note: The O2 SMS Only Global eSIM is a recurring monthly subscription and continues until cancelled.