el Chumpo, AKA “o2”, has cooked up another raft of data plans for international roaming — as has, I think, been commented before.
Paul Worsley caught this via the o2 site and I thought I’d better document it for my own sanity. Whenever I think that we’re getting somewhere with mobile data in this country, I have to remeber to come back and browse the posts I’ve made under the Mobile Data category here.
International Data pricing
Tier Price per MB
Tier A £6.00
Tier B £4.50Notes:
Charging is in 1KB increments
Charges apply at all times of day
1MB is 1,024KBFrom 1 October 2007 we’re removing Tier B pricing. All usage will be charged at the Tier A rate.
So Tier B — 4.50 a meg, will shortly be defunct. You will now be hosed at a more attractive six pounds per meg.
Ridiculous.
Still, if you’re an o2 customer, I say this to you, in a slightly Glasweign accent:
Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a foking big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed- interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Just, please, don’t choose o2 any more. (Rest of the Trainspotting quote here).
Christ on a bike, those guys must all need new kitchens or something…. How can they get away with it. I have been an O2 customer for 16 years and I’ve had enough now. I will not be renewing my deal when it expires in november even if they give me a IPhone for free….
They know it will take another 5 years before any euro commission tackles data rates so they’ll make hay while the sun shines.
Does anyone know what the Intl rates are for 3 and T-Mobile?
Mark
I’ve just got another text from O2 saying that 0844 and 0845 numbers will now not be coverd in your ‘Free’ minutes and will incur a chage of 20p per min.
O2 are on a roll today…..
I had to laugh on Friday when I got a text message from them.
It read; “From 28/9 the data usage price on some networks will change from £5.29/MB (inc VAT) to £7.05 so you’ll just pay one flat rate when abroad.”
The wording is such as to make us grateful for their having made our lives easier. Now when we go abroad we don’t have to think about where we are and then try to remember which tier that country is in and from that figure out the cost…. oh no… all that’s gone. Our life is made simpler because now all we need to remember is that we are being well and truly screwed wherever we are.
Thanks O2, I knew there was a reason I loved you.
I’ve had no problems with O2 in any other area – accurate bills, decent CS, “my europe”/ok roaming rates but data – they are seriously taking the ****. We do still have 3 phones in the household on O2 and I can virtually guarantee that at contract renewal time they will switch network plain and simply on data pricing even for moderate use (something like 30Mb for £2.50 for lightweight users)
Could it be that O2 are bolstering costs to make up any short fall for the 10% they will pay Apple for all voice / text and data charges that are earned by IPhone use…..?