Sidekick plans

A Watch Sidekick plan costs an extra $5 per month on top of your Pay Monthly plan. This additional cost will be included on your Pay Monthly bill each month. 

If you’re a new or existing customer, you can get a Watch Sidekick plan if you have a Carryover, Endless, Unlimited or Group Pay Monthly plan. For Watch Sidekick plans, your Pay Monthly plan needs to be connected to a Samsung Galaxy phone. Reminder - your Watch Sidekick plan only works with a Samsung Galaxy watch.

At this stage our Watch Sidekick plans are currently only available for the following Samsung Galaxy watches:

• Samsung Watch7 40mm LTE ­
• Samsung Watch7 44mm LTE ­
• Samsung Watch Ultra
• Samsung Watch6 LTE series
• Galaxy Watch6 Classic LTE series

To set up your Watch Sidekick plan, visit a 2degrees store and our friendly staff can help. Or, if you already have a Samsung Galaxy watch on the 2degrees network, you can activate your Watch Sidekick plan from your phone via the Samsung watch app.

Our Watch Sidekick plan is currently only available for Samsung Galaxy watches. To activate on your Samsung Galaxy watch make sure you have the latest software on your Samsung Galaxy phone and you are on an eligible Pay Monthly mobile plan.

• Open the Galaxy Wearable app on your Samsung phone. 
• Ensure Bluetooth is turned on. 
• Pair your Samsung Galaxy watch to your Samsung phone. 
• Follow the instructions when prompted during setup and confirm your 2degrees Monthly plan. Your Samsung Galaxy watch will automatically connect to the 2degrees network. 

Note: Your Watch Sidekick plan might show a different number on your bill than your phone’s existing mobile number. This is just for internal billing purposes - your Samsung Galaxy watch and phone actually share the same number.

When making a call or sending a text to your mates from your Samsung Galaxy watch, they will see your existing mobile number, just like they see when you call or text them from your phone.

Your watch can work without your phone close by.

• Calls can be made and received.
• Texts can be sent and received if your phone is on. 
• Data is shared between your phone and your watch.

Your Watch Sidekick plan uses the same amount of voice minutes, texts and data on your existing Pay Monthly plan. For example, if your Pay Monthly plan gives you 10GB of Carryover Data, then your Samsung Galaxy watch will use calls, text and data from this allocation.

While overseas,  if your phone and Samsung Galaxy watch are in proximity of each other, they will be connected via Bluetooth. To make a call using Bluetooth calling, just remember to add the International Calling Code before the number - even if you're calling someone in that same country. 

For example, if you want to call 022 123 456, simply drop the 0 and replace it with the country code which starts with ‘+’.

You can purchase a new Samsung Galaxy watch Interest Free over 12, 24 or 36 months on an eligible Pay Monthly plan, with a $49 upfront payment. Visit any 2degrees store and our team can help you out, or purchase a new watch online.

Only one Samsung Galaxy watch can be connected to your 2degrees Pay Monthly plan at a time. If you want to connect a different smartwatch to your plan you will need to disconnect your current Samsung Galaxy watch, and then connect the new Samsung Galaxy watch device to your Watch Sidekick plan instead.

You can’t remove your mobile data from your Watch Sidekick plan without cancelling your Watch Sidekick plan and removing data or cancelling your 2degrees Pay Monthly plan as well.

If you're thinking of cancelling your Watch Sidekick plan, you can deactivate your Watch Sidekick plan from your wearable app on your device, or give us a call on 200 from your 2degrees mobile, 0800 022 022 from any New Zealand phone, or +64 22 200 2000 from overseas.

In your Samsung watch app settings make sure to select ‘Manage 2degrees Account’ to avoid an ongoing $5 monthly charge for your Watch Sidekick plan. By logging into My 2degrees NZ app and cancelling the plan directly, you won't continue to be charged, whereas simply selecting ‘Remove plan’ in your wearable app settings may result in ongoing charges. 

If you cancel your Watch Sidekick plan part way through a month, you’ll be charged the $5 monthly charge for your Watch Sidekick plan.

If you bought a watch from us with an Interest Free Repayment option cancelling your Watch Sidekick plan will mean the remaining balance will need to be paid in full on your next bill. To find your total balance owing check your My 2degrees app under the Interest free repayments section. 

Note: Once cancelled, your Samsung Galaxy watch will no longer be able to access the 2degrees mobile network – but you’ll still be able to use Bluetooth and WiFi. 

A Data Sidekick plan is available to anyone with an active Carryover, Endless, Unlimited or Group Pay Monthly plan.

The Data Sidekick plan cannot be purchased on its own. You’ll need to link it to an active 2degrees Pay Monthly plan.

You need an eligible Pay Monthly plan to use your Data Sidekick plan. Check out our Pay Monthly plans or switch your existing Prepay to Pay Monthly through My 2degrees.

The Data Sidekick plan does not have its own data allocation. Instead, it shares data from the Pay Monthly plan it’s linked to.

Manage your data by using the 2degrees NZ app to share data in two ways:

• Open Sharing - Both your mobile and data sharing device use data on a first-come-first-served basis. This is the default setting for all Data Sidekick plans. Standard Shared data terms and conditions apply.
• Monthly Allowance - Only a chunk of your Pay Monthly Plan’s data will be allocated to your data sharing device every month.

Endless data is only available on your Pay Monthly mobile plan. If you have used all of you Max Speed data, you will need to buy one of our Add-ons to keep using data on your Data Sidekick plan.

The Data Sidekick plan has been designed to be used with data only devices such as tablets, laptops or mobile hotspotting devices.

Yes, you can. But these will be charged at standard casual rates so we wouldn’t recommend it. If you need another plan to make calls and texts, then check out our Group plans for better value.

Yes, either your data sharing device or mobile phone will trigger the Daily Roaming charge each day.

You can purchase your new tablet Interest Free over 12, 24 or 36 months with our Data Sidekick plan, with a $49 upfront payment either online or at any 2degrees retail store.