Vodafone price rises.

neil3k · 28 Jun 2011 at 16:01

sorry for the link

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ne-users-hit-mobile-charges-soar-66-cent.html

"I'm on Vodafone and will be utilising Clause 11 (b) in the Terms and Conditions. This allows a customer to cancel their agreement without penalty when; "we increase your charges in the UK which have the effect of increasing your total charges (based on your usage in the previous month) by more than 10% and you write to us before the increase applies"

anyone know if this is feasible ?

Columbo · 28 Jun 2011 at 16:07

Vodafone is increasing the minimum call charge on some contracts from 15p to 25p – or 66 per cent. These charges apply to calls made outside of those allowed by a customer’s monthly contract.

Unless you are going over you monthly allowance by a lot and frequently then you have no chance I'm afraid as Clause 11(b) simply wont apply.

neil3k · 28 Jun 2011 at 16:10

Myshra · 28 Jun 2011 at 16:22

Aaaah if it isn't my good ol' friend Mr Termination Charges.

The rough rule on trying to jump out your contract is if it affects your current entitlement (as in, part of your package) or about >50% of your current costs then you probably will be able to escape. But honestly, unless they do something odd like kill off an in-place contract (exceptionally rare) you will not win.

A good example of this is the old raccoon contracts on Orange. Unlimited landline calls for a tenner you say? Surely this can't go wrong? It ended up costing Orange an absolute crapton of cash and they withdrew quite a few of the better deals, let the current contracts expire (and then gave them a really poor upgrade deal forcing them to basically move deal or buy a phone and effectively go SIM-O). They wouldn't kill the contracts in use although they had the power to because it costs such a large amount (they keep the handset, network unlikely made a profit off you), they would rather bite their tounges than take a hit.

Cleeecooo · 28 Jun 2011 at 16:25

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18289959

already trying it with Virgin. they're saying no at the moment

muon · 28 Jun 2011 at 17:05

ManCuBuS said:
Unless you are going over you monthly allowance by a lot and frequently then you have no chance I'm afraid as Clause 11(b) simply wont apply.

It does apply. The past isn't a definite indicator of the future.

This argument has been used many times on different tariff changes in the past and it works.

krooton · 28 Jun 2011 at 18:48

ghost101 said:
It does apply. The past isn't a definite indicator of the future.

This argument has been used many times on different tariff changes in the past and it works.

Looks like the T&Cs have been updated to minimise people exploiting this like in the years gone by.

If you signed up to the T&Cs with that clause in it, and you don't go over your inclusive minutes, then you won't be able to jump ship.

muon · 28 Jun 2011 at 19:29

krooton said:
Looks like the T&Cs have been updated to minimise people exploiting this like in the years gone by.

If you signed up to the T&Cs with that clause in it, and you don't go over your inclusive minutes, then you won't be able to jump ship.

Ah right, i missed the based on your previous month bit.