mobile phone contract

slowandsteady

I'm not sure if this is the right place for this question but here goes;

I have just got a letter saying the price of the monthly payments of my mobile contract is going up. Am I right in saying that I can now cancel that contract as they have changed the terms?

I thought I seen something on the news lately saying I could as the small print in their contracts saying I couldn't is illegal.

anyone?

morstar

I'd go on the moneysavingexpert forum and ask this question. Bread and butter stuff for that site.

manoirdelourde

There is probably something in your contract allowing them to increase the cost by a certain amount, read the small print.

diamonddog

manoirdelourde wrote:

There is probably something in your contract allowing them to increase the cost by a certain amount, read the small print.

^^This one, they will have covered their backside.

slowandsteady

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/pers ... kdown.html

Look at that though....

bernithebiker

Come to France.

My contract costs, er, nothing*. I get 2 hours/month, plus unlimited SMS/MMS.

*Normally 2 Euros/month, but free if they are your internet provider.

They're called Free, appropriately enough.

ilm_zero7

Sadly, its a similar deal with Ooredoo - i get so many bonus minutes a month they roll over and are growing bigger and bigger - BUT, you have to buy your own phone outright - The UK system of 'free' phones sucks

southdownswolf

bernithebiker wrote:

Come to France.

My contract costs, er, nothing*. I get 2 hours/month, plus unlimited SMS/MMS.

*Normally 2 Euros/month, but free if they are your internet provider.

They're called Free, appropriately enough.

ILM Zero7 wrote:

Sadly, its a similar deal with Ooredoo - i get so many bonus minutes a month they roll over and are growing bigger and bigger - BUT, you have to buy your own phone outright - The UK system of 'free' phones sucks

With Free I believe that you still either have to provide your own phone or pay rental on a phone from them, so it is not strictly free. Also, if you want any decent amount of 3G/4G included the "free" monthly charge goes up to 15.99euros + rental of phone.
Still much better than most UK providers though.

VTech

Mobile phone contracts are a corruption in themselves.
If I offer a service and don't provide I can be taken to court and pay a hefty price but mobile phone operators do not even have to offer a service meaning you can't proceed on a denial of service basis like other contracts.
Where I live I stopped getting a signal, this was due to orange selling off their masts when they had financial troubles yet when I called them to ask to leave the contract as they could not provide me a service they wouldn't let me go, I then went to the ombudsman who were no help as I was locked into a contract.

bernithebiker

southdownswolf wrote:

bernithebiker wrote:

Come to France.

My contract costs, er, nothing*. I get 2 hours/month, plus unlimited SMS/MMS.

*Normally 2 Euros/month, but free if they are your internet provider.

They're called Free, appropriately enough.

ILM Zero7 wrote:

Sadly, its a similar deal with Ooredoo - i get so many bonus minutes a month they roll over and are growing bigger and bigger - BUT, you have to buy your own phone outright - The UK system of 'free' phones sucks

With Free I believe that you still either have to provide your own phone or pay rental on a phone from them, so it is not strictly free. Also, if you want any decent amount of 3G/4G included the "free" monthly charge goes up to 15.99euros + rental of phone.
Still much better than most UK providers though.

True, they're not going to give you a phone too if you're paying sweet FA per month. But phones are cheap as chips these days as long as you're not an i-addict.
I don't use my phone much and I don't use the internet on it, so it's the perfect contract for me.
Where's it's also brilliant is in alarms/gates, etc.
I have 3 more 2 Euro contracts; 1 for the gate, 1 for the alarm, and 1 for my wild boar hunting camera! (It MMS's me if one comes past!)

redvee

Slowandsteady wrote:

I have just got a letter saying the price of the monthly payments of my mobile contract is going up. Am I right in saying that I can now cancel that contract as they have changed the terms?

http://consumers.ofcom.org.uk/2014/01/p ... ice-rises/