And by existing users, obviously, I mean me... *gets onto blogger soapbox*The news is that Vodafone has halved the price of its mobile broadband 3GB price plan to £15 a month. That means if you're surfing from a laptop using Vodafone's HSDPA USB modem stick, you get up to 3GB of data for your 15 quid every month.
Great, right? Except the offer is only open to new customers, since it's a promotion. Speaking as someone who's been paying £25 a month since last June for the basic 3G USB modem with a data limit of 250MB a month, I'm not feeling too happy about the new deal. To put it mildly.
This isn't just a Vodafone thing: it's the case for any new service where prices come down rapidly, yet early adopters are locked in to a contract. I guess my next step is to ring up Vodafone's customer services and say 'Hi there, can you cut a tenner off my monthly bill, up my data limit by 2.75GB, and send me a faster USB modem please?'
Fingers crossed, eh?
When O2 upgraded its iPhone tariffs earlier this week, it tripled the number of free voice-minutes a month and doubled the number of free texts. But crucially, it applied this to existing users' contracts as well as new signups. I wish more operators would follow this example.
What do you think though? Should I stop sulking and accept that signing up for a service early means you might feel ripped off later on? Or should mobile operators be taking more care of their early adopters?
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