[iTech]

A 23 minute wait time just to get to see the prices on the EE site. Crikey! I've checked CPW for EE and you have to pay at least £200 upfront for a 10G plus plan. That's a lot of cash especially when in America prices seem to be reducing TMobile etc).
No mention of iPhone 7 on Vodafone site.
Haven't checked O2
Three are still showing "learn for more".

[JasonWatkins]

O2 are offering the 32 Model with unlimited minutes and texts and 1GB of data for "just" £43 a month

And that's with a £59 upfront payment.

If you increase that upfront payment to £179.99 then you can bring down your monthly cost with 1GB of data by £5 whole pounds !

Jump to the 256gb model and the above plan is available for £53 a month, although the upfront price is £10 cheaper if you want to knock a fiver off again. That's generous

Crazy, crazy prices.

[JasonWatkins]

Virgin's pricing seems slightly more reasonable actually.

A 128gb black iPhone 7 with 5000 minutes, 5gb of data and unlimited texts will be a total monthly cost of £52 a month on a two year deal. 32gb model on the same tariff is £5 a month cheaper.

No upfront cost as well for either model.

[Roush]

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Originally Posted by JasonWatkins

O2 are offering unlimited minutes and texts and 1GB of data for "just" £43 a month

And that's with a £59 upfront payment.

If you increase that upfront payment to £179.99 then you can bring down your monthly cost with 1GB of data by £5 whole pounds !

That's the same overall cost over a 24 month contract. It's just moving the cost between the upfront and the monthly payments.

Surely this is what people were expecting? We already know that no-one sells discounted plans for new model iPhones.

The usual cash back websites would probably be the best places to look for deals right now.

[JasonWatkins]

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Originally Posted by Roush

That's the same overall cost over a 24 month contract. It's just moving the cost between the upfront and the monthly payments.

Surely this is what people were expecting? We already know that no-one sells discounted plans for new model iPhones.

The usual cash back websites would probably be the best places to look for deals right now.

Oh this is certainly nothing new compared to previous iPhone launches. It's always been a crazy amount of money

[Gigabit]

I wonder if Apple's new upgrade programme will change the contracts here like it has in the US.

[Heanor_Man31]

It is crazy, yes, but six years ago when iPhone 4 launched o2 offered 1GB/month for £60!

For £5/month more on some tariffs and you get 30GB.

[ryan125hst]

The craziest price I've seen so far is on O2 for an iPhone 7 Plus. You can get 50 GB of data, unlimited minutes and texts, Unlimited EU data roaming and music streaming and the yearly upgrade programme for £59.99 upfront and a staggering £95 a month! It's the most expensive plan I've seen yet across the four networks.

Looking at the flagship (iPhone 7 Plus 256 GB), the next most expensive is Three with all you can eat data, minutes and texts, 30 GB of personal hotspot and feel at home for £87 a month and no upfront cost. Then there's Vodafone at £73 a month, but this is for only 30 GB of data, but unlimited minutes and texts, unlimited roaming mins and texts and 4 GB of roaming data. I can't get on EE's store for over 20 minutes now as the site is so busy, but I think the most expensive was £70.99 a month for 40 GB of data on the 4GEE Max plan (unlimited calls and texts including EU roaming, 15 GB of roaming data and BT Sport).

It's also interesting to see how the plans are arrange. EE don't seem to be offering any essential plans on the new phone and the lowest data option on the 256 GB 7 Plus is 10 GB. I guess they think that those who what that phone will have lots of money and therefore the lower data options won't interest them. Surely it won't hurt to offer some slightly cheaper plans (although the upfront cost is normally huge on them so maybe that's why they haven't bothered). Also, I'm surprised to see no price reductions on the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus yet. Saying that, the 6 and 6 Plus and even the 5S is still on EE's website at the minute, and the price was about the same for 10 GB of data as what I'm paying now for my S7. Why would you pay so much for a three year old phone? I've only been looking at EE for the older phones so I can't comment on the other networks. They're probably just as bad for this.

[Shadowlands]

My EE contract was up, I luckily just got a bonus so I've bought an unlocked iPhone7 Plus and am going with Giff Gaff. Even with the ridiculous price I paid for the handset I'll still be £20 a month up on my current deal.

[HistoricDealer]

I was really tempted to go pay monthly this time, but glad I wasn't relying on it.

Phone (32gb plus) for £720, and continue with my £20 20gb EE sim only deal. The costs for pay monthly just seem totally mental now.

(I don't know if still available, but ask for retentions, quote vodafone or BT offers and they should offer 20gb option, despite insisting it doesn't exist at first )

[Dan Sette]

I don't suppose it should come as a surprise. They are financing a phone..

At £720 for a phone, over 24 months, interest free you have to pay £30 per month before a call plan has been added.

I'm looking at downgrading my tariff. I realy don't think I use the unlimited data that I have traditionally gone for. This year I'm looking at going for a SIM only deal and opting for the Apple upgrade programme

Just worried about cutting back on data, even tough my average usage appears to be easily cut back.

What kind of data plan do people on here use / require?

[packages]

Quote:

Originally Posted by iTech

A 23 minute wait time just to get to see the prices on the EE site. Crikey! I've checked CPW for EE and you have to pay at least £200 upfront for a 10G plus plan. That's a lot of cash especially when in America prices seem to be reducing TMobile etc).
No mention of iPhone 7 on Vodafone site.
Haven't checked O2
Three are still showing "learn for more".

It takes longer to be delivered but a lot cheaper than main sites, go to buymobiles, mobile phones direct or another third party website. You won't be paying those ludicrous prices

[Broken Hope]

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Originally Posted by Shadowlands

My EE contract was up, I luckily just got a bonus so I've bought an unlocked iPhone7 Plus and am going with Giff Gaff. Even with the ridiculous price I paid for the handset I'll still be £20 a month up on my current deal.

You won't feel lucky being on GiffGaff after experiencing EE..

[shaddler]

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Originally Posted by JasonWatkins

Crazy, crazy prices.

They are, aren't they? I think they've gone OTT this time, not that previous phones weren't already expensive.

[d123]

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Originally Posted by shaddler

They are, aren't they? I think they've gone OTT this time

They have, I wonder how many people have decided not to buy after seeing the increases. I have, I was willing to pay 619 for a 7 or 699 for a 7+, but 32GB just isn't enough and I'm not willing to spend more.

It's allowed me to realise it doesn't do anything my 6s already does and I'll just save what I was going to spend.

[Shadowlands]

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Originally Posted by Broken Hope

You won't feel lucky being on GiffGaff after experiencing EE..

Way to cast doubt! Might spend the weekend reading up on it, EE have got some good sim only deals.. MIGHT stick with them. £19.99 for 10gb I think. I've got 20gb at the moment and hardly ever dent that.

[Broken Hope]

GiffGaff has terrible data speeds and are low priority on the O2 network.

[Everything Goes]

Good price guide here:

https://www.engadget.com/2016/09/09/...rder-guide-uk/