O2 price rise feels like a mockery of Ofcom’s consumer protection!
O2 has announced that from April 2026, mobile customers will see their monthly bills rise by MORE THAN IT TOLD THEM, £30 a year – up 40% from the £21.60 annual increase previously written into their contracts.
Part of Martins press statement
This move feels to me a bit like it makes a mockery of 's new 'pounds and pence' consumer protection regime, which came in at the start of this year. It was the regulator's solution to hideous above-inflation, mid-contract price hikes was that on sign-up firms should tell you in advance, in pounds and pence, the price hikes you'll face during the contract period.
Now O2 is increasing contracts by more than it said it would when people signed up. And while that means all its impacted mobile customers can leave penalty-free – and many should – we know few will. Most will likely just have to suck up a rise that was more than they were told when they signed up.
Read Martins tweeet here.
Dear reader.
My thoughts. . . . . .
They change the goal posts whenever they feel like it. You take out a contract for your mobile phone and they've got you by the short and curly's. You are their slave, and you enslave yourself by going along with it. All part of the plan.
People laugh at me when I take out my bog standard pay as you go text and calls only handset. Yes, there are a lot of things I cannot do, places that I cannot visit, events that I cannot join in with, because I refuse to be dictated to by those who want to enslave me.
I can ignore any statements about contracts, one less thing to worry about. Instead I can concentrate on what I can do through my own endeavors, to get the most out of my life, without the constant reminders that I am a slave.
OK, so you want to keep your phone like it's some kind of umbilical cord that you dare not let go of. You hand over your whole life to Blackrock or Vanguard or whoever owns you. Go ahead, but be aware, this is not the end game. Piece by piece you will lose more control of your life when it goes full circle. Digital ID for everything. Freedoms gone forever.
I am now going to go outside and meet up with some friends for a chat at Coffee Morning. Half way through the chat the phones will come out.
Thanks for popping in Have a good day. Toodle pip. ilona
Update edit
Martin Lewis gives O2 & Ofcom both barrels after O2 hikes prices by more than it’d told customers & regulators do nowt to stop it!
For full info and how to beat the rise.
People constantly walking heads down. They are missing a whole world going on around them. The other thing I don’t understand is people constantly wearing headphones. I recently saw a picture my friend posted on the book of faces. They were at a ceremony for her daughter’s boyfriend and the daughter had these headphones 🎧 on her head in every picture. Why would you do that? Did she even listen to the ceremony? Does she have conversations with her parents or boyfriend? Just seemed very odd and rude. But that’s just little ol’ me and my opinion.
ReplyDeleteI've never had a mobile phone contract, always pay-as-you-go. Currently on a Vodafone half price Big Bundle deal - £5 a month for unlimited texts and calls, and 7Gb/month data, cancel any time by just not paying the next month.
ReplyDeletePlenty of data for things like Google maps etc, and no ongoing commitment.
I agree with you Ilona. I do have a smartphone although one of the cheaper ones, and its out of contract now and I pay £9 a month for a SIM only contract so I just pay for the texts, data and calls but its a fixed amount. I'm with Tesco who say they don't do price hikes. Completely understand you being pay as you go though and agree people are too reliant on their phones and also having the latest models. The prices of some of them are baffling!
ReplyDeleteYou really don't want to know about Canadian phone plans. The main providers have cancelled all pay as you go plans. There is one still going with a third tier company. But nobody knows how long it will last. As one salesman told me, buy the yearly one payment plan, it's still on top up cards. Or put it on a credit card and then go in and cancel the card after it's been set up.
ReplyDeleteI have one child that trusts no one with his data. His phone is paid via top up cards as is his Netflix. No billable subscriptions in his world.