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Vodafone Reports £8.7 Billion Profits...

karatedragon
karatedragon Posts: 1,148 Forumite
And still need to charge for data use over 500MB from June 1st.

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  • redux
    redux Posts: 22,976 Forumite
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    It's got over 400 million customers

    That averages £20 profit per year per customer
  • three1ne
    three1ne Posts: 152 Forumite
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    Not sure that that is really relevant redux.
  • Andyblizz
    Andyblizz Posts: 432 Forumite
    redux wrote: »
    It's got over 400 million customers

    That averages £20 profit per year per customer

    And if the so called 3% get charged another £5 a month.

    400mil x 3% x £5 x 12 = Extra £720 mill

    For no additional costs, as VF already have the cost.


    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
  • tifo
    tifo Posts: 1,999 Forumite
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    what's wrong with making profit?

    if you don't want to pay them for anything, move to someone else.
  • OneADay
    OneADay Posts: 9,031 Forumite
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    Andyblizz wrote: »
    And if the so called 3% get charged another £5 a month.

    400mil x 3% x £5 x 12 = Extra £720 mill

    For no additional costs, as VF already have the cost.


    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    Minus the billions they paid for the mobile licenses and pay for the their network maintenance and employees to explain to people what fair usage means.
  • Andyblizz
    Andyblizz Posts: 432 Forumite
    OneADay wrote: »
    Minus the billions they paid for the mobile licenses and pay for the their network maintenance and employees to explain to people what fair usage means.

    What i said was tonge in cheek.:D:D

    However the costs you mention are costs they already incurr. The new proposed change will just be additonal profit.

    To be honest i dont care what Vodafone do, they are in business to make money. And i am not a Vodafone customer so it doesnt effect me.

    But now if O2 bring in a 500mb limit i would have a problem ;). As my current useage over the last few months has been around the 750mb.
  • DarkConvict
    DarkConvict Posts: 6,338 Forumite
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    tifo wrote: »
    what's wrong with making profit?

    if you don't want to pay them for anything, move to someone else.

    That is exactly what people are trying to do, but vodafone insist people can't leave their contracts even though they have introduced 'new' charges.
    Although no trees were harmed during the creation of this post, a large number of electrons were greatly inconvenienced.

    There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies
  • C_Mababejive
    C_Mababejive Posts: 11,668 Forumite
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    Great...if youve got any spare cash,buy VOD as they are cheap at present and pay good divis.
    Feudal Britain needs land reform. 70% of the land is "owned" by 1 % of the population and at least 50% is unregistered (inherited by landed gentry). Thats why your slave box costs so much..
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