Sorry Wavejock I don't believe you, you make up so much stuff about Three and bash them for everything this is probably just another ploy to bash them. If you hated them as much as you post on here then I don't believe you even have a Three contract.
Three 'whining' as you put it is too right, they paid billions (literally) for the 3G spectrum while the likes of O2 and Vodafone got the 2G spectrum virtually free, now those operators have been allowed to reuse that for 3G at no extra cost.
Now O2 and Vodafone are acting against the interests of the consumers and in a bully boy way threatening to sue Ofcom purely to delay 4G. That should be enough reason to ditch O2 and support the others who aren't doing that.
Ofcom welcomes Three's disruptive and forward thinking approach, far from using as an excuse the put the prices up Three are trying to fight for the consumer and the 4G deadline to be kept to.
I think you'll find Vodafone are the ones who like price rises, they've increased their prices recently and rounded up their bills, but only of course "to make things simpler for you".
Nice to have a network that cares about making things simpler for you. Shame they don't care about delaying 4G.