MSE News: O2 launches 'custom' plans - but it'll cost you

just another ploy by a network to attract gullible punters with 'smoke and mirrors':rotfl:

new plans promise customised deals, designed to better suit a customer's budget and needs.

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You've misunderstood. It's the cost of the handset that is paid off up to 36months. (You can choose 3 to 36 months). The airtime contract is separate.

pmduk wrote: »

The big 4 networks are thrashing around trying to preserve their profitable traditional business model against the onslaught of SIM only deals which cannier consumers recognise save them a great deal of money and don't necessarily tie them to a network.

To be fair there are some scenarios whereby it's better to get a handset-bundle tariff than SIM-only - when I was last "upgrading", it was only a couple of ££ extra a month (so about £50 or so over the 2years) between going the SIM-only route and getting my phone direct from EE. By going the handset route, EE threw in the 24hr replacement service (which I'd had to use on another account only a month or so previously) and a few other extras.. which made it worthwhile.


And Android devices especially don't tend to get network-extras like 4G-calling & WiFi calling, which can make the difference.



But these caveats aside, it doesn't take away from the principle - and when I priced up the O2 Flexible tariffs, they still worked out more expensive than other options.