Originally Posted by Chris1973:
“My Stepfather had a letter through yesterday telling him that his '3' contract (600 mins / unltd texts / 1GB ) was going up in price from £10 / month to £14 / month but that they would give him a £3 / month discount making the new price £11 / month.
I found him a better deal for his needs with Life Mobile, who are currently offering 1000 mins / 5000 texts and 1GB data for £7.45 per month on the same 30 day rolling contract, so Three are losing another customer.
He doesn't send texts and uses very little data, but the extra 400 mins per month are a huge bonus for him.”
Given that's not a legacy tariff, I assume that increase is the annual increase in line with inflation, which Three was so against and advertised as such - before U turning.
Thing is, they couldn't possibly increase his plan by that much so it sounds like they're somehow trying to fool people into thinking there was some huge rise, but hey they'll reduce the impact because they like you.
They're choosing to put up the prices, but like their script on kicking off users from legacy plans they make it sound like they had no choice.