Vodafone and RPI.

20aday

Good afternoon.

If you're planning on opening a new line or upgrading your existing agreement with Vodafone it's worth pointing out they now use RPI (like EE, o2, Virgin Mobile and Three UK*) to increase your monthly line rental in April of each year using the figures announced in the preceding March.

Just thought I'd give people a heads up because I haven't seen it reported anywhere in the media thus far.

(*Three UK don't apply RPI increases to their SIMO tariffs)

daleski75

I can't find anything relating to this do you have any links?

liviboy

daleski75 wrote: »

I can't find anything relating to this do you have any links?

Did you visit the Vodafone website??

Each April, your bundle price will increase by an amount equal to the Retail Price Index (RPI) rate published in March of that year. We’ll publish this rate on our website.

From the bottom of http://www.vodafone.co.uk/shop/bundles-and-sims/sim-only-deals/index.htm

This must have been changed around the 1st of May as before that they used to have a price guarantee where your price stayed the same for the initial term.

20aday

The Fixed Price Promise expired on May 5th according to the Help section of their website.

liviboy

20aday wrote: »

The Fixed Price Promise expired on May 5th according to the Help section of their website.

This whole uprating by RPI is just a con and a rip-off. Phone companies do prices in whole pounds (generally) so you as an existing customer will get charged say £21.73 because of the RPI uprating, the new customer just signing up will likely be able to get the exact same package but for the same £20 that you originally signed-up for.

A minimum-term contract should be just that with the price fixed for that duration.

The same goes for companies like Virgin Media (although because they don't have an RPI increase in their contracts, when they raise prices they do give plenty of notice and an ability to cancel penalty-free). A contract should be sacred (for the minimum term at least!).

20aday

I couldn't agree with you more.

To be honest it seems they are using the RPI increase "trick" to pay for the roaming option they've added in recent days.

Tesco Mobile will be having me as a customer come November that's for sure.

boatman

It does seem a stupid situation that a mobile company cannot work out costs for a 2 year deal and stick to them, it is just profiteering.