Three annual price rises on the way!

ryan92

So my sister was looking at getting a Three contract and on the checkout page it now says the following ;

Price include £5 monthly discount for paying by a recurring method, such as direct debit. Each May, your Monthly Charge will increase by an amount up to the January RPI rate (published each February), unless you're on a SIM plan.

Wonder how this will affect existing customers?

gjchester

ryan92 wrote: »

Price include £5 monthly discount for paying by a recurring method, such as direct debit. Each May, your Monthly Charge will increase by an amount up to the January RPI rate (published each February), unless you're on a SIM plan.

Wonder how this will affect existing customers?

Depends when you took out your contract and what T&C you signed up to. RPI rises have always been possible in older T&C its just now its clearer there WILL be a yearly rise not there MAYBE a rise as before.

No doubt as people upgrade/refresh/renew a contract they'll get the new terms applied.

eagle

I noticed this on Friday whilst having a play with their site.

Looks like O2 has already started influencing Three, even before they bought them out. Charming...

I would really like to know how this will affect me as well. Got a very cheap SIM only deal with them that is my backup phone. Want to move it to the unlimited everything SIM but that's far off for me now...

gjchester

eagle wrote: »

Looks like O2 has already started influencing Three, even before they bought them out. Charming...

Not really, probably more related to the move Orange/TMobile made a few years ago.

Its always been in contracts that your monthly fee may rise by RPI, but not often enforced. Orange/TM did a few years ago and had a lot of negative feedback, resulting in some people getting out of contracts for free (See forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=4818999)

Rathen than saying contract may rise, most network now say they WILL rise, so removing the uncertainly. Tesco made a promise to never increase prices mid contract as a marketing statement, but I think all other networks simple put in to their T&C a yearly rise was always on the cards.

im-lost

eagle wrote: »

I noticed this on Friday whilst having a play with their site.

Looks like O2 has already started influencing Three, even before they bought them out. Charming...

I would really like to know how this will affect me as well. Got a very cheap SIM only deal with them that is my backup phone. Want to move it to the unlimited everything SIM but that's far off for me now...

three have been doing the RPI increase for years

M_Thomson

im-lost wrote: »

three have been doing the RPI increase for years

Duh. No they haven't which is the point of this thread.

im-lost

M_Thomson wrote: »

Duh. No they haven't which is the point of this thread.

duh yeah they have, they were the first to do it, even before orange done it.

I remember them doing it at least 5 years ago.

here's a thread from 2011 of them doing it, and they've made increases every year since.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3032636

And here's a post of mine from the end of 2011 where I mention them doing it a year earlier in 2010

and I quote

"just like three done last year..

One wonders why the MSE team has done an article about orange doing this.
Yet didn't bat an eyelid when three done a similar thing last year"

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=48899949&postcount=52

Tony5101

Their policy changed last year (Jan14), with them trumpeting for all to hear that they wouldn't be raising contract prices mid-term...and have now backtracked on this policy...
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/phones/2015/06/three-u-turns-on-promise-not-to-raise-mobile-prices-mid-term