T-Mobile / Orange Contract Price Increases

Fairly sure the answer is no said:
you know as i wrote my last post, i was tempted to say i very much doubt you actually will reduce your price plan to "stop wasting tax payers money", but didn't and gave you a chance. you failed miserably.
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Yes, because the Government would give him less money because he reduced the price on his phone contract.

I'd ignore the morons in GD who whinge about the people spending benefits on "luxuries" tbh.
 
Fairly sure the answer is no said:
you know as i wrote my last post, i was tempted to say i very much doubt you actually will reduce your price plan to "stop wasting tax payers money", but didn't and gave you a chance. you failed miserably.
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Failed at what?

Do you have my phone bugged?

Where you listening in to the 30 min conversation I had with T-Mobile?????

I already removed the booster I had for extra minutes and the contract is at the bare minimum they will allow.

Didn't realise I had to broadcast my every move for your approval.
 
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I've not had that Orange letter about increased tariff, but I had something similar this week saying that my Orange Care is going to increase from £6 to £8 per month. Bit of a rip off imo. Going to stick my phone on the house insurance instead. What's the best way to cancel Orange Care?
 
Bloomfield said:
Yes, because the Government would give him less money because he reduced the price on his phone contract.

I'd ignore the morons in GD who whinge about the people spending benefits on "luxuries" tbh.
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i wasn't me who thought he was wasting tax payers money, but him. he put the words out there, i just didn't believe he actually meant them, i gave him a chance to show it.

op makes a thread moaning about a price increase and wants to get out of his contract, gets shown they legally can do it. he then moans about tying to save tax payers money, £1 per month i believe is the case here, gets shown a way to save the money but now doesn't want to as he can afford it. :rolleyes: e
 
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Fairly sure the answer is no said:
i wasn't me who thought he was wasting tax payers money, but him. he put the words out there, i just didn't believe he actually meant them, i gave him a chance to show it.

op makes a thread moaning about a price increase and wants to get out of his contract, gets shown they legally can do it. he then moans about tying to save tax payers money, £1 per month i believe is the case here, gets shown a way to save the money but now doesn't want to as he can afford it. :rolleyes: e
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Read what I put genius, I don't have to show you diddly ******* squat. The first thing I did when I lost my job was removed the booster and the contract is on the minimum, I was just hoping there was a way to get out of it.
 
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Monserrat said:
What's the best way to cancel Orange Care?
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Phone 150. You were being robbed anyway, OC is hilariously bad compared to any household insurance addon. I thought £6 was only the medium plan anyway? There was an £10/11 tier at one point.
'Rising business costs'? What, like having to fork out for the 4G spectrum? Not sure how they can justify it when they recently posted profits of over £1 billion.
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EE posted a 1/4 Billion loss pre-tax as recently as a few weeks ago - are you talking about something else?
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/201...als-pre-tax-loss_n_2714734.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

Turbo edit: Calm down girls.
 
Reading that article they think the cost rise is the same as a tin of beans i.e 70p?! Not sure where they shop...

Im on orange/EE at the moment but my contract ends in a month. I started looking a cheap sims and didnt realise how much you could get for so little. Those 24 month contracts that are being banded about seem ridiculous really.
 
It seems this is happening often with T-mobile, got hit by it twice on my last contract plus the VAT increase. And I get where some people are coming from, even if you can afford it, it just feels like your being robbed. There is not many instances where your service increase price mid contract and you can't do anything about it.
 
i can't think of any situations where it doesn't increase mid contract :p

there is only 2 things which i pay each month and those are rent and council tax which wont increase for a 12 month period, everything else can and sometimes does.
 
Personally I think the clause is unfair and shouldn't even be there. Things like 'rising business costs' and 'inflation' are made irrelevent by the fact you sign a 24 month CONTRACT. It's not on a 30 day rolling basis. It's a contract. You are bound by that contract for 24 months. If you suffer from 'rising cost of living' or something you can't reduce your bill and neither would you expect to, so it's rather one sided that they can do the opposite.

This never used to happen with such frequency - it used to be almost unheard of.

I particularly liked this bit:

Wary of criticism over the price rise, EE is also launching a new fixed-rate contract for Orange and T-Mobile customers on April 10.

This will enable them to pay a premium of between 50p and £2 (depending on the tariff) to fix the price of their contract for its duration.
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Isn't that entirely the POINT of signing a contract in the first place?! If a network operator wants flexibility in pricing then don't operate with long-term contracts.
 
I sent a snarky letter to the MD and customer service MD of T-Mobile, it actually got me help when I had no end of problems with o2 broadband, ended up getting 6 months free internet. Fingers crossed.
 
I took out a contract with Orange on April 27th 2011 (SGS2 release day :p) and if this does affect Orange customers then that will be the 2nd price rise in that contract.

Guess who's not going to continue being an Orange/EE customer as of the end of next month? :p
 
Yep, I've had my SG2 18 months and this is the 2nd price hike in that time.

Luckily my contract is up in April, so going sim only for a while.
 
This will also be a second time my contract fee goes up. Time to jump the ship to another carrier. Plus their 3g connection is awful, most of the time I don't even get that.
 
Phoned to cancel, but got quoted that I can't because the price rise was not greater than RPI. Instead they offered me two options, to move to a 4G EE plan (and swallow an even greater price hike for terrible data allowances) or move to an Orange plan that's not affected by the increase.

So I was paying £41pm - £7.50 discount for 900 mins, unlimited texts and 1GB Internet, now paying £32.80 (apparently this is £41 - 10% discount but that maths doesn't add up but didn't disagree) for unlimited calls and texts and 3GB Internet.

Will of course check my bill when it comes through and will definitely be moving to Giffgaff or similar when the time comes. How they can justify such price increases when I can get all I want (a few minutes and tonnes of data) from Giffgaff for £12, I don't know.
 
[TW]Fox;23860458 said:
Personally I think the clause is unfair and shouldn't even be there. Things like 'rising business costs' and 'inflation' are made irrelevent by the fact you sign a 24 month CONTRACT. It's not on a 30 day rolling basis. It's a contract. You are bound by that contract for 24 months. If you suffer from 'rising cost of living' or something you can't reduce your bill and neither would you expect to, so it's rather one sided that they can do the opposite.

This never used to happen with such frequency - it used to be almost unheard of.

I particularly liked this bit:



Isn't that entirely the POINT of signing a contract in the first place?! If a network operator wants flexibility in pricing then don't operate with long-term contracts.
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They had to move with the times though. Contracts used to only be 12 months, so inflation didn't have as much of an impact, but now that 18/24 months are the norm, they are guaranteed to be losing money for at least 6 months of the overall contract when inflation rises.

Yes it sucks, but it's part of the capitalist model.
 
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