Vodafone customers to be hit with price hike

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  retiredfeline on 11/01/2013 - 12:10

  No good will come of this. Glad I'm not with them (anymore).

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  scotty on 11/01/2013 - 12:17

  Vodafone is definitely getting more expensive over the last 6 months. For example they have phased out their $29 cap with $30 plans with no increase in value. Samsung Galaxy S II has been $0 on $29 Cap in December 2011 and throughout last year they have not been the case and is still now $0 on $30 plan. In general the plans are just more expensive. That also reflects on the deal posted here on OzBargain. Vodafone deals:

  • 2011: 67 deals posted
  • 2012: 49 deals posted, and many are prepaid phone deals

  Not surprised that they are continuing their quest to get more money from each subscriber, seeing their customer base shrinking over the years.

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    Commonwealth Pig on 11/01/2013 - 22:30

    Vodafone is definitely getting more expensive

    I've noticed this trend with Optus and Telstra as well. It's now at the stage where you're better off buying handsets outright and going with one of the many cheaper resellers than with the telcos themselves (as has been pointed out on numerous mobile related deals).

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  Johnny-Kun on 11/01/2013 - 12:43

  Does that mean that current Vodafone account holders will see a price hike or is this just for new accounts?

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  retiredfeline on 11/01/2013 - 12:44

  Under the new billing system, Vodafone customers will pay for one megabyte with each visit to a website or use of an app, no matter how much data is used.

  I wonder if that was misreported. Often websites to pull in content from other sites. Say you check your email at Yahoo. That will pull in ads. Do you get charged for all those ad sites also? The ensuing cost could be horrendous.

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    mskeggs on 11/01/2013 - 13:15

    I'm pretty sure the 1Mb minimum will be 'per session'. So it would be true if you accessed one web site, then left your phone alone for an hour and then accessed another, but if you accessed them immediately after each other it would be grouped together as one session with one minimum data block.

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      retiredfeline on 11/01/2013 - 13:17

      Yeah, that would make more sense. Otherwise customers will be even more enraged.

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  wrcboi on 11/01/2013 - 14:42

  a ripped off..definitely gona cancel ma plan once the contracts up…very bad connection

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  kolorijo on 11/01/2013 - 15:52

  more reason to end my plan with them at the end of my contract…

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  Commonwealth Pig on 11/01/2013 - 22:19

  +1

  I did some research as I thought this may affect me and by the looks of it the change is only for prepaid.

  This notice which is linked to from the prepaid cap summary and every other prepaid plan summary is not seen anywhere on the postpaid plans.

  The Herald Sun article states the changes affect prepaid customers as does Computerworld,iTWire,The Australian Financial Review,ZDNet and numerous others.

  The article you have linked to looks pretty misleading.

  This should explain my recent bill which exceeded the data usage by 100 bucks!

  Considering all sources indicate mid February (most have February 13) I can't see where you can draw that conclusion.

  Not defending them in any way because it is a crappy way to bill data but it's not going to affect anyone on a plan (at the moment at least).

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  pfpozbargain on 13/01/2013 - 17:26

  May I just say in response to the assertion that you won't be charged more for data usage as the sessions are continuous and usage at different times will be part of the same session - No, this is Vodafone, you would be lucky for your session to remain uninterrupted in the time it took to access one site or an application to get one update.

  I can't believe this new strategy from Vodafone, can they really afford to lose any more customers, even if they are making more money out of the ones still on the network, the ones that leave may never return…

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  oldrocker on 21/01/2013 - 09:28

  amaysim prepaid is already charging in 1MB blocks, any one knows if Kogan mobile broadband charges in the same manner? Their $9.99 2GB a month deal sounds pretty good!