Vodafone 4 year contract

pmuir

When I last upgraded my phone with Vodafone (back in October 2012) they have put me on a 4 year contract due to end Oct 2016. I realise that I should have raised this with at the time, and told them to reduce it, but it still seems a totally unreasonable length to create a contract for.

Further, I can see that Ofcom/the EU have now banned phone contracts that are longer than 2 years, so I'm wondering if I can get out of the contract early...

Anyone got a similar case or advice?

Thanks,

Pete

Techhead_2

Are you on a consumer or a business contract?

I ask because it is incredibly unusual for there to be a four year consumer contract.

pmuir

It's a consumer contract :-)

JJ_Egan

What are you paying ???

pmuir

The contract is for £37 for unlimted texts and minutes with 1GB of data.

grumbler

Contracts longer than 2 years had been banned before 2012.
If it was an early upgrade the remainder of the old contract could have been added to 2 years, but no way can it be 4 years in total.

mije1983

Have you actually spoken to them to get their reasoning behind the 4 years? As said by the above posters, contracts over 2 years have been banned for a while.

chanz4

only orange ever offered 3 year, never seen a 4 year on voda

macman

Must be a sold gold handset for them to be charging you an incredible £1,776 over the minimum term...

pmuir

Thanks to everyone for the comments.

mije1983 wrote: »

Have you actually spoken to them to get their reasoning behind the 4 years? As said by the above posters, contracts over 2 years have been banned for a while.

No, I had always assumed that because I had agreed to the contract, there was no way out. However some idle googling on Saturday morning lead me those articles about greater than 2 year contracts being banned.

My next step is definitely to speak to them!

mije1983

pmuir wrote: »

No, I had always assumed that because I had agreed to the contract, there was no way out.

So you did agree to it then? As in your first post you make it sound like it is some kind of error on their part.

pmuir wrote: »

When I last upgraded my phone with Vodafone (back in October 2012) they have put me on a 4 year contract due to end Oct 2016. I realise that I should have raised this with at the time,