Mobile phone operator refusing to provide a Nano SIM (NS) for an old pay monthly (PM) contract

sdduk

What i don't understand is why EE can't just let people keep there T-Mobile and Orange tariffs on EE instead of trying to make them go on a more expensive tariff if they move over.
I was with Life Mobile and was moved over to Plusnet but i still have my sim deal i got with Life Mobile and its only £1mth for 3000 Mins/Text 4GB Data i think i have had it 3/4yrs now so i was wondering why EE can't do that...Greed i suppose.

Jon_01

sdduk said:

What i don't understand is why EE can't just let people keep there T-Mobile and Orange tariffs on EE instead of trying to make them go on a more expensive tariff if they move over.
I was with Life Mobile and was moved over to Plusnet but i still have my sim deal i got with Life Mobile and its only £1mth for 3000 Mins/Text 4GB Data i think i have had it 3/4yrs now so i was wondering why EE can't do that...Greed i suppose.

I believe the idea is to reduce the number of plans live on the servers. If they imported all the old legacy plans from Orange and T they'd have to massively upgrade their infrastructure.  The whole point of the merger of Orange and T was to save money. . . 

[Deleted User]

Jon_01 said:

sdduk said:

What i don't understand is why EE can't just let people keep there T-Mobile and Orange tariffs on EE instead of trying to make them go on a more expensive tariff if they move over.
I was with Life Mobile and was moved over to Plusnet but i still have my sim deal i got with Life Mobile and its only £1mth for 3000 Mins/Text 4GB Data i think i have had it 3/4yrs now so i was wondering why EE can't do that...Greed i suppose.

I believe the idea is to reduce the number of plans live on the servers. If they imported all the old legacy plans from Orange and T they'd have to massively upgrade their infrastructure.  The whole point of the merger of Orange and T was to save money. . . 

EE is the old T-Mobile UK rebranded and it's mostly the Orange side of things that have been decommissioned.
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/02382161 

J_B

sdduk said:

What i don't understand is why EE can't just let people keep there their T-Mobile and Orange tariffs on EE instead of trying to make them go on a more expensive tariff if they move over.

I've had the OVP Virgin eq tariff for about 15 (?) years now and they recently moved it to EE.

My brother has two the same.

Jon_01

dahj said:

Jon_01 said:

sdduk said:

What i don't understand is why EE can't just let people keep there T-Mobile and Orange tariffs on EE instead of trying to make them go on a more expensive tariff if they move over.
I was with Life Mobile and was moved over to Plusnet but i still have my sim deal i got with Life Mobile and its only £1mth for 3000 Mins/Text 4GB Data i think i have had it 3/4yrs now so i was wondering why EE can't do that...Greed i suppose.

I believe the idea is to reduce the number of plans live on the servers. If they imported all the old legacy plans from Orange and T they'd have to massively upgrade their infrastructure.  The whole point of the merger of Orange and T was to save money. . . 

EE is the old T-Mobile UK rebranded and it's mostly the Orange side of things that have been decommissioned.
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/02382161 

Yes, EE is run on the old T system.  The old Orange system is being used to run corp accounts now as it better than the T system.
The problem was, the Orange system was way over capacity. It was designed to run (I think) 8 million accounts, when I was there is had close to 13 million on it!   Also, it had a stack of old legacy accounts clogging it up. About 90%+ of the plans where archived and not issuable, but had to be there because a few of them were still running (like the Ops).  

forgotmyname

sdduk said:

What i don't understand is why EE can't just let people keep there T-Mobile and Orange tariffs on EE instead of trying to make them go on a more expensive tariff if they move over.
I was with Life Mobile and was moved over to Plusnet but i still have my sim deal i got with Life Mobile and its only £1mth for 3000 Mins/Text 4GB Data i think i have had it 3/4yrs now so i was wondering why EE can't do that...Greed i suppose.

Did you not get an email or letter recently about price increases?  Mines gone up 20p.   To be fair never had any increase from Life or
Plusnet until now.