Canceling or reducing my Orange Contract Tariff

chunky-monkey_8

I'm 11 months into a 24 month contract and I want to cancel it. Work has reduced my hours from 16.5 down to 10 a week =(. I phoned up the other week and they said if i want to cancel my contract it will cost me £350!!!! =O I cant afford that but i also cant afford to keep paying my phone bills each month with is any ting between £35 to £50 can anyone please help ='(. I have just worked out that on average I use 359.5 mins each month with is way below my allowance its not even half!

DCFC79

You may be able to get on a lower tariff, i moved to a lower tariff but i did it when my contract was nearly up with about 1 month to go but give them a call and see what they say

DarkConvict

Contracts are to protect both sides, they have to provide the service, you have to pay for it.
Unless you can afford for the full term of a contract you should never sign up for it, sadly it is too late a lesson to learn for you.
By signing to a long contract you get a better deal, you get a phone £100-600 for free and high allowances, the contract subsides the phone price heavily.

Options

1) Ask to reduce the tariff (generally need to serve between 9-18 months depending on provider), although T-mobile only allow you in the last month, so basically never.

2) Sell the phone to recoup some money to pay off the contract

3) You say you bill is between £35-50. Since your bill varies you are obviously using out of contract allowances, be it data or just excessive usage. Stop it, keep your bills to the contract price only.

4) See if there is anyone you know you can sell the contract and phone to. Remember if you do it, you must be on the phone when the transfer is done into their name.

5) Get on the debt free board and post up an SOA( http://www.makesenseofcards.com/soacalc.html ), if you can't afford £30 a month you need to seriously start budgetting - Debt forum - http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=76

mohit07

I am just wondering to see your unscrupulous information you posted here. I think you need to admit in school again as ur so weak in math and calculation. you stated that phone companies subsidize for the contract phone so I am asking you how do they do that ?
You know how much they charge for a contract the amount they charge is more than including minutes and phone price. If u buy a phone for £36 a month for 24 months contract it will cost u about £864. however if the customer make any mistake like making additional calls they will charge extra money for that even they never notify the customer that he is out of his contract minutes. Don't u think it is a cheating ? come on men how can u be so stupid.Moreover after signing the contract customers become helpless to the mobile companies.They do whatever they want by making new changes. isn't it weird to u ? My suggestion do the calculation and don't post wrong info when these mobile companies are getting loaded charging extra money to their customers .

grumbler

mohit07 wrote: »

I am just wondering to see your unscrupulous information you posted here. I think you need to admit in school again as ur so weak in math and calculation. you stated that phone companies subsidize for the contract phone so I am asking you how do they do that ?

Ask the companies. They do this for the majority of contract phones excluding, possibly, iPhones and the newest phones. Fact.

You know how much they charge for a contract the amount they charge is more than including minutes and phone price. If u buy a phone for £36 a month for 24 months contract it will cost u about £864. however if the customer make any mistake like making additional calls they will charge extra money for that even they never notify the customer that he is out of his contract minutes. Don't u think it is a cheating ?

They do. And this is probably one of the reasons for subsidising - they hope to recover the money and to make the extra profit by overcharging you for the airtime.

come on men how can u be so stupid.Moreover after signing the contract customers become helpless to the mobile companies.They do whatever they want by making new changes. isn't it weird to u ? My suggestion do the calculation and don't post wrong info when these mobile companies are getting loaded charging extra money to their customers .

Of course they exist to make profit. However, they do subsidise the contract handsets and it is you who has to do calculations and to stop posting the 'wrong info'.

NFH

chunky-monkey wrote: »

I'm 11 months into a 24 month contract and I want to cancel it.

So why didn't you take out a 1-month contract or at most a 12-month contract?

grumbler

It is a two years old thread dug out by mohit07 for some mysterious reason.