Orange/T-Mobile put up prices again
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Orange and T-Mobile putting prices by 3.3%
http://www.coolsmartphone.com/2013/03/01/orange-and-t-mobile-contract-prices-to-increase/
http://www.coolsmartphone.com/2013/03/01/orange-and-t-mobile-contract-prices-to-increase/
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Turning into an expensive month - have only been with Virgin Media for 6 months and they've put the price of the services up by £5 a month now!
3.3% is the retail price index, that is what operators are going to base increases on. All the other networks will no doubt do the same later in the year.
It's not just the phone industry that do this as well. If you're gonna tie some one in for a fixed term contract at least make it fixed price as well and don't raise the price mid contract. For example, when you buy petrol its not a contract, so the price varies each time. If you sign up to a 12 month contract with BT or Sky they jack the line rental up about 3 times or something a year which is ridiculous.
this time Orange and T-Mobile customers are to see rises of 3.3%
Seeing as they can do this once a year, Vodafone could have raised their prices 27 times since their launch....
A lot of this can be blamed on EU roaming regulations.
no coincidence that prices have been put up since ofcom took the decision to get involved in termination rates.
once again a regulator meddles and costs the consumer money.
Not sure how the pr dept can justify quoting its only around 70p a month extra???
I received an offer to upgrade early today too, considering my signal has gone awful since they merged networks, I think I'll be looking elsewhere once my contracts up.
The sooner Ofcom stops this practice the better although I suspect they have something to do with it as reduced termination rates have affected all networks and part of the price increase will be an attempt to compensate for that.
After the very negative reaction last time I would have thought all of the networks would have steered clear of mid-contract price rises. A bit of a gamble for EE as they may drive customers elsewhere with such regular increases.
The 50p - £2 a month option to fix your monthly contract cost for the life of the contact is sheer cheek. What a shower of chancers asking for this type of payment when it's well known that the regulator is almost certain to protect customers soon from price hikes within minimum contract periods.
They probably do as they've not given their workers a payrise either, bottom line is they don't give a f
Hell mend them....
Roll on next March!