Vodafone to increase roaming charges by 400%

MikeKanani

You can use up to 25MB a day (midnight to midnight UK time) for just £4.99 in Europe - and for £14.99 elsewhere in the world. 25MB is approximately 500 mobile friendly web pages.

From 15th June our new data roaming pricing will come into effect:
Europe: £1 per MB for the first 5MB and £5 for every subsequent 5MB
Rest of the world: £3 per MB for the first 5MB and £15 for every subsequent 5MB

source: online.vodafone.co.uk/dispatch/Portal/appmanager/vodafone/wrp?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=templateCClamp&pageID=OS_1101

That the hell do the think they are doing? This is a 400% increase and it is utterly ridiculous! They're already screwing me over with the changes to the implementation of the FUP and now this?

Also they claim we cannot cancel our contracts because of this as the charges are outside of the UK, however the last paragraph of clause 11b of the pay monthly airtime agreement says:

b You may end this agreement by writing to us if:

-we change this agreement to your significant disadvantage including changing or withdrawing services (we will tell you if this is the case) and you write to us within one month of us telling you about the change. This does not apply if the change relates to services which you can cancel without us ending this agreement.

surely this could be seen as a significant disadvantage as now I can no longer afford to use this service when I previously could!

DarkConvict

There was a post about this yesterday

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2468797

I worked it out, they are cheaper than 3 still. And reading online it is a price cut.

And yes you can cancel for it, its a change in the price plan so long as it costs you more money not less!. I think orange was doing something last year but they dropped it as so many wanted to cancel.