EE Offers First Plan Bundling Apple Subscription Services in the UK

[Brenster]

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I ‘upgraded’ to iPhone SE 2020 last month so am subject to RPI adjustments each March until EE contact us to tell us they are moving all of us who don’t change our plans going forward.

I am sure they will have a clause whereby you can only end the contract by paying an Early Termination Fee when that happens but I can’t imagine it’ll do them well in the long term?

BT have introduced the same for their broadband plans (and I assume their mobile service is the same) and Plus.net follow suit from next month.

this is going to cause surprise, pain and problems for a number of their customers when such hikes are imposed. Other than ‘because we want to’, I’m struggling to see the justification for CPI and another 3.9% on top. Mobile data provision must be one of the few spheres not to have been subjected to plummeting demand and revenues this year.

That said, even if/when it is applied to my households 3 £20pm SIM only deals, we’ll likely still stay with EE; their coverage, speed and reliability have been rock solid for use since moving from O2 in 2014.

Off to read the small print now.

 

[Marbles1]

I’ve had the exact same problem, I have a good credit rating but always get turned down by Barclays Partner Finance as they must have a specific criteria I’m not meeting but not sure what it is, so I cannot use iUP 😔

If they're doing a credit check each time, and it fails, then it may be something as silly as ' the previous credit check failed so there's a risk here'. and you get stuck in a cycle.

 

[iGeek2019]

This is terrible in the times we are in increasing bills by 3.9% this is the main reason.
I avoid anything to do with the BT brand and Virgin media brand both are the biggest con don't get me started on virgin media your bills doubles at the end of your contract.

I appreciate there are costs involved for maintaining networks etc but if CPI is sky high next year this is going to leave a lot of customers in a mess seeing as some of EE’s plans are eye watering as it is!

Wondering how long it is before the others follow suit; AFAIK only Tesco Mobile are the ones who don’t use RPI/CPI on their tariffs.

Part of me also wonders if losing Virgin Media to Vodafone/o2 is one of the reasons for the change as I imagine Virgin Mobile must pay BT a fair chunk to run on their infrastructure.

 

[Openworld1234]

I appreciate there are costs involved for maintaining networks etc but if CPI is sky high next year this is going to leave a lot of customers in a mess seeing as some of EE’s plans are eye watering as it is!

Wondering how long it is before the others follow suit; AFAIK only Tesco Mobile are the ones who don’t use RPI/CPI on their tariffs.

Part of me also wonders if losing Virgin Media to Vodafone/o2 is one of the reasons for the change as I imagine Virgin Mobile must pay BT a fair chunk to run on their infrastructure.

After checking out EE website today just noticed they removed the unlimited data sim only that plan only available to purchase with a handset price plan another way to force customer signing up to a expensive phone plan with unlimited data option.
EE always have tricks in the book to make a couple of extra buck just like the Max plan and 5G plans.