Forever Increased Costs

[sandra4444]

It appears from July anyone who has PAYG mobile will face a 250% increase in charges for calls and texts. But of course this is all to do with forcing you to have a monthly bundle at around £10 per month that many older people don't want, or will even use. The greed is getting past a joke now in this country.

[Zacs-Master]

It's only Three who've announced this at the moment. Texts will rise by 5p (to 15p each) but data will double in price to 10p per MB.

[ToraToraTora]

I pay £12 a month most calls and texts are free and data rolls over.

[pastafreak]

I've always had a £10 bundle with we...mostly for data as I don't text or call much...though some is included. I only pay £9 now and I get extra free data periodically. No complaints from me.

[youngmafbog]

Its a free market.

If you dont want to pay then dont.

I would have thought for the few that are PAYG (e.g. my mum) the rise will be peanuts as the number of calls are tiny. If they are not tiny by a bundle.

For 3G of data, unlimited minutes and texts it a fiver with ASDA.

[pastafreak]

Not "we"...ee.

[aelmpvw]

my payg mobile is for the rare possibility of an emergency call, i'm not prepared to pay £10 a month for that

[sandra4444]

The point is that we are constantly having our arms twisted up our backs from all directions.

[youngmafbog]

well pay the extra then aelmpvw.

And I see you ignored my post telling you where you can get a bundle for half the amount in the OP.

[davebro]

you can get plans from a fiver.

https://mobile.lebara.com/gb/en/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMInrvco--i-AIVmLPtCh0LywhlEAAYASAAEgJ0avD_BwE

[youngmafbog]

//The point is that we are constantly having our arms twisted up our backs from all directions.//

So you think Companies should be charities then?

Running PAYG is expensive compared to bundles. Like I said, if you dont want to pay more then dont use the mobile, dont expect the Bundlers to subsidise you.

[aelmpvw]

i've still got most of the £10 deposit i made about eight months ago, i don't want or need to pay any extra!

[aelmpvw]

subsidise me? they've had eight quid of my money lying around for eight months

[Rosetta]

what providers do you all use and would you recommend them? Would it make any difference that we cant get a mobile signal at home? sorry if the questions are a bit stupid, I am a tech moron

[Zacs-Master]

'The point is that we are constantly having our arms twisted up our backs from all directions.'

Just not as far as your headline was making out.

[youngmafbog]

//subsidise me? they've had eight quid of my money lying around for eight months//

Well actually in your case even more so. Do you think it is free to connect you up and keep you running when you clearly dont use it? When a company costs it up they assume a certain usage to cover setup costs. I doubt very much you have hit the threshold yet.

I suspect you are another that wants Banks open in Towns but use them onece a year.

[sandra4444]

Calm down youngmafbog, goodness me have a little rest.

[sandra4444]

12.49 ttt. How do you work out that calls and texts are free when you pay £12 a month.

[Buenchico]

Vodafone had to pay £378m to buy the right to use the 50Mhz band for their 5G services. (Other operators also had to fork out vast sums of money, with EE, for example, paying £303m to use the 40Mhz band). That's before they could even make a start on building transmitters and putting the infrastructure in place to get their systems up and running.

So a fiver a month, for example, to get unlimited calls and texts (together with 3 GB of data) using the Vodafone network via Asda Mobile's bundles, seems like extremely good value to me!

When I first got a PAYG mobile phone, 22 years ago, I was charged £1 per day as a standing charge. So that was £30 a month gone without even using the thing! Outgoing calls were charged at 50p per minute from the time that the phone at the other end started ringing (with no automatic cut off, as there is now). So making an unanswered call, where the phone was ringing for two minutes, took another £1 from my PAYG credit. Incoming calls (which were often only from spammers and scammers) were charged at 30p per minute too.

In comparison to those prices, today's charges for using mobile phones seem ridiculously cheap to me!

[sandra4444]

Well thanks for that great explanation Buenchico. I just see older folk being priced out all together sooner or later. A £5 bundle a month is not a great deal to pay, but still a lot to many older folk. How long will it be before the £5 bundle is no longer available.

[pastafreak]

What other option is there besides a bundle or equivalent. At least with that bundle you know exactly what you are entitled to. Even PAYG gas or electric charges you whether you use any energy or not...standing charges.