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£30 a month offers so little
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O2 devised the £30/month option for one reason ...
... to make you upgrade your decision to enroll on £35/month instead.
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Remember, to make the £35 per month contract worthwhile you need to go over these limits each and every month and spend more than £5 on the additional texts/calls.
I for one am going for the £30 per month option when I can finally get my upgrade through.
shows the profit margins
Basically mobile contracts work like this.
you pay per month * 18 months
they get this say you pay 30/month = 540 + £99 for 8GB phone = £639
this means that this £639 needs to pay for
Cost of phone from Apple
Cost of O2 Equipment (mobile masts data usage etc, costs to other networks in call fees)
Cash to seller for selling phone (in case of WEB it goes to profit)
Cost of unlimited data
Guaranteed profit
Remember that when you call someone else on another network it costs O2 to connect the call, so on a cheap tarrif like £30 after all other costs there wont be much left to pay the other networks in connect calls costs. thats why higher tarrifs have more minutes because O2 can afford to pay to connect the calls. Also remember that the line Guaranteed profit comes before anything else for O2.!!
Basically mobile contracts work like this.
you pay per month * 18 months
they get this say you pay 30/month = 540 + £99 for 8GB phone = £639
this means that this £639 needs to pay for
Cost of phone from Apple
Cost of O2 Equipment (mobile masts data usage etc, costs to other networks in call fees)
Cash to seller for selling phone (in case of WEB it goes to profit)
Cost of unlimited data
Guaranteed profit
Remember that when you call someone else on another network it costs O2 to connect the call, so on a cheap tarrif like £30 after all other costs there wont be much left to pay the other networks in connect calls costs. thats why higher tarrifs have more minutes because O2 can afford to pay to connect the calls. Also remember that the line Guaranteed profit comes before anything else for O2.!!
Yes, pretty sure that you can 'upgrade' to a higher tarriff at anytime. If you weredoinjg it the other way (e.g. £45pm to £35pm), you have to wait nine months to do so.
i was going to go for the PAYG option, but now it isn't available, i decided to go for the £30 option. I don't really use many minutes and less texts then the allowance so i think it is not tooo bad. I would prefer PAYG but i want the phone more!!!