O2 Forcing All Customers onto the New Price Rises

[Enlli]

O2 has confirmed to ISPreview that they’re also emailing existing mobile customers to forcibly move them to the new pricing policy, albeit with a right to exit their contract as a result. This is as opposed to the usual approach, where such changes only occur for new customers or via natural re-contracting at the end of a contract term. We don’t think VMO2 are going to win too many adoring fans with this one

Personally I hope for a mass exodus

[pgn]

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@Enlli wrote:

And Travel Inclusive roaming going from £6 to £7 per day and that has already happened 

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Just "O2 Travel", @Enlli - Travel Inclusive (TI), and TI Ultimate, are tariff-dependent or Volt dependent.

[FrankS]

Hello, just to add a bit more perspective 😁 to the previously mentioned price "hikes" which add £1.80 to the airtime portion of any contract / bill:

Last June I took a deal from O2 for a new Samsung tablet over a 3 year device plan plus the lowest airtime tariff I could get away with which at the time was / is £1 per month for 250Mb of data only plus 100 text messages and no calls.  From April a £1.80 price rise on the airtime part of the plan (confirmed yesterday with O2 customer services) taking the airtime from £1 to £2.80 per month.  IS THIS 180% INCREASE A RECORD FOR ABOVE INFLATION PRICE RISES??

YES it is still a small amount in hard cash terms but 180% increase - we have to smile when the brainboxes in O2 seem to assume that everyone (like them) is on a £30 per month airtime contract (which presumably they get for free / heavily discounted) which with a £1.80 increase would be around 6% - not too bad.  Many customers live in the real world but my 180% has got to give everyone here a smile - which I hope it does.

Frank

[pgn]

It's definitely an eye-opener, @FrankS - you may be able to find a value Airtime Deal after month 24 of your 36 month contract: "After 24 months you can keep your Airtime Plan, upgrade it, or end it without affecting your Device Plan."

So you're out of pocket by £1.80/month extra this coming March/April 2025, and another £1.80/month next March/April (2026), then you can go reset back down to whatever you can find at the Value-end of the O2 Airtime market once more for 12months

Many here on the Forum use the likes of Uswitch to get a reasonable amount of data/calls/texts monthly on a 12-month SIMO contract, which, if timed right, evades the March/April price increase altogether - not sure what Uswitch offers for the Tablet/Data sector, worth a look.

Good luck!

[Enlli]

My present USwitch deal is up 17th March

I shall keep my eyes peeled