O2 contract customers face 3.2% price hike from February

[darrengf]

http://www.mobiletoday.co.uk/News/23540/O2_contract_customers_face_3.2_price_hike_from_February.aspx

Never welcomed News I'm affraid.

Just a shame it's had to happen.

So no network Is amune from the price increase now 😢

[Liquid]

•blushes•

I'm nice deep down:)

Best bit of this forum is the banter in my opinion.

Anyway back on topic.

Even O2 most expensive tariff can only increase by £2.27.

Does anyone actually know how much line rental is on a mobile? I can only find home phone O2 prices on google.

[Anonymous]

and the reason they are doing it now is because inflation is about to fall, so more money for your shareholders!!!! the annoying thing is, or good thing, my wifes phone contract runs out this month, so wont be taking out a new one. certainly not with o2, principle thing

[perksie]

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@Anonymous wrote:

and the reason they are doing it now is because inflation is about to fall, so more money for your shareholders!!!! the annoying thing is, or good thing, my wifes phone contract runs out this month, so wont be taking out a new one. certainly not with o2, principle thing

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You will obviously be moving to a company that hasn't done this yet?

Oh hang on there isn't one!!!

[Liquid]

I cannot understand some people.

I thought you had to be over 18 to sign a contract?

If that is correct then why act like a juvenile?

I own O2 shares and they haven't gone up by much at all, I've made greater investments in companies who haven't accounted for inflation. Your logic is flawed sorry.

[Anonymous]

I am moderately ticked off by this. I had to sign up for 24 months. No changes allowed... unless you are O2.

I accept that prices go up, I do not accept that the cost of the "line rental" - a virtual connection at best - can increase. 

As a fixed-term contractee, I think that this sucks.  To calmly announce that charges will change just over halfway through a contract is annoying, to put it mildly.

This leads to the next thought.  If one party to a contract can change the fixed 2 year contract, can the other?

I was told that I was tied down to unchanged conditions for two years.  If O2 intend to change their side of the contract, I should be free to do the same.

It is not equitable that only one party in a contract can make changes.

[perksie]

The changes are in the terms, if you read some of the links in this thread it should help you understand.

There's another thread here too:

http://community.o2.co.uk/t5/Pay-Monthly-and-Pay-Go/Increase-in-Tariff-Cost/td-p/364896/page/9

[sheepdog]

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@Anonymous wrote:

I am moderately ticked off by this. I had to sign up for 24 months. No changes allowed... unless you are O2.

I accept that prices go up, I do not accept that the cost of the "line rental" - a virtual connection at best - can increase. 

As a fixed-term contractee, I think that this sucks.  To calmly announce that charges will change just over halfway through a contract is annoying, to put it mildly.

This leads to the next thought.  If one party to a contract can change the fixed 2 year contract, can the other?

I was told that I was tied down to unchanged conditions for two years.  If O2 intend to change their side of the contract, I should be free to do the same.

It is not equitable that only one party in a contract can make changes.

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You did have the ability to change the tariff down one step at the midway point on older contracts. This tends to be the next level down at £5 less. But this has been removed and I suspect it may have been in the last 6 months. Again, all the other operators have been doing that for far longer than o2.

[MI5]

The ability to not drop a tariff came in with the new pricing structure at end of March this year.

[sheepdog]

Thought it was recent. Yet another reason to avoid contracts.

[Liquid]

Mine was a bit of a piss take. Only way they'd let me downgrade my tarif was to accept the new T&Cs which meant I couldn't downgrade.