T-Mobile to drop Combi and Flext tariffs

CocoPopsLover

The bolt on idea sounds like something iv seen with O2

greyster

matrix999 wrote: »

Looking for advice....

Does anyone know if T-Mobile will allow customers to remin on their existing sim only fixed tariff, £15 per month 300 mins and unlimited texts after the changes take place on 1 March 2010???

yes but you may not want to.

t_mob_insider2

When the new price plans are launched on the 1st of Feb anyone on the old price plans ( Flext, Combi, Solo, Freetime, Anytime ect..... can stay on them as long as they want. But once you have moved to a new price plan you cannot go back to an old one.

carrieparkinson

im a bit suprised they have not kept any 'fixed 'tarriff after ringfencing the solo fixed tarriffs from march 5th....

eljmayes

greyster wrote: »

nearly 70% of market now is 24 month plans.

It actually isnt the networks fault in this case. The market every year is going more and more smartphones. Smartphones are hundreds of pounds... the mobile network either needs to offer you a phone on a 12 month contract equating to £60-80 for a bog standard tariff and a decent smartphone or spread it out over 24 months. Look at how long the iphone contracts are for and look at what phones are coming onto the market.... loads of andriod multi-hundred pound handsets and nokia's latest range.

18 month contract offers will get smaller and smaller as well as the networks can't make deals look competitive for 18 month smart phone offers. Don't get me wrong HTC are churning out good value handsets at the moment on 18 month plans but as their brand increases and the phones evolve, i can see them being on 24 months as well. And for the phones that do stay on 18 months, don't expect them to be free.

Anticipated market share for smartphones 2010: 50%

I think phone insurance will be become more popular also with these 24 month plans.....

I agree to some extent with this post- however when you look at the price of the SIM free smartphones clearly the networks aren't buying them in at cost price, that would be lunacy.

I read somewhere that a Hero costs around 200 quid to buy in for a network so the network makes a decent profit if their business model is sound across the tariffs.

greyster

carrieparkinson wrote: »

im a bit suprised they have not kept any 'fixed 'tarriff after ringfencing the solo fixed tarriffs from march 5th....

lets hope they remain.... cant see why they would be removed.

secretmsg

The site is updated with new price plans and flexibility..

http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/shop/mobile-phones/price-plans/pay-monthly/

carrieparkinson

greyster wrote: »

lets hope they remain.... cant see why they would be removed.

i work for tmob and awaiting the 'fixed tarriff update' from hq.. they will still remain if customers dont faff ....

greyster

they're already available, I can see two on the site. Under £15 and £20 tariffs.