Benefits of price inflation on contract?

[Liquid]

The way I see it is that everyone giving that tiny bit extra that the majority of us won't even notice will help to improve the service.

Imagine 22million customers with a price hike of up to £2.00 will increase the amount available for O2 to spend on spreading their coverage. For all you who have terrible coverage imagine if instead on spending £1million per day they spent 2 or even 3 the network would get a huge boost from the extra spending.

They'd have the money to hire extra CS reps which would cut down on the waiting times.

Their tax will increase resulting in more money going back to the country for schools, emergency services, general maintenance and so on.



It's not all bad.

[perksie]

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@Anonymous wrote:
I think 02 should honor the contracts we take out. If they told me it was going up after 3 months I would not have taken it on

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They have honoured it, if you read the terms it's all there.

[Liquid]

That's not a benefit my friend go complain in the other thread please.

[Anonymous]

They are allowed to change the terms of the contract & give suitable notice which they have so that doesn't give people grounds to cancel for free

[Anonymous]

has o2 mentioned what they're going to spend the money on, then?

i'd be interested to know what they will be increasing spending on  due to the increase in the price of the contract.

[perksie]

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@Anonymous wrote:

has o2 mentioned what they're going to spend the money on, then?

i'd be interested to know what they will be increasing spending on  due to the increase in the price of the contract.

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Why don't you write to head office and ask them?

Most of the answers are here:

http://www.o2.co.uk/prices

[Anonymous]

i know all that, perksie. that link just says why they've increased the prices.
I just thought that since the original poster was talking about the extra money from this price rise was going to go towards an improved service, (and therefore we should look at the benefits of the rise) that o2 had actually detailed what they were spending the money on.

i was just trying to get an idea of the benefits that were being alluded to.

[adamtemp64]

4g auction 1.5 million a day on the network for improvements and to help pay the parent companies debts off is my guess

[Liquid]

Well lets put it this way if the extra money isn't reinvested into the buisness they'll face a much higher tax to take it as profits. Therefore by deduction they'll be investing it into the network in a bid to attract money customers to pay off their patent companies failings.

[Anonymous]

i see. these are points i never thought of. 

cheers

[Liquid]

No worries, just thought a variation of the negatives might be appreciated by a few:)

Obviously I can't guarantee that's what they'll do but it's the logical step.

i guess we could add that every O2 customer is doing their part to get Spain out of recession 😞