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Mobile Networks Forced to Offer 12 Month Contracts
Jan 30th, 2011 at 9:16pm
 


Mobile phone providers will have to offer 12 month contracts under new EU rules.



Read more: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/bargains-and-rip-offs/broadband-and-phones/article....

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Re: Mobile Networks Forced to Offer 12 Month Contr
Reply #1 - Jan 30th, 2011 at 10:04pm
 
This is welcome but all it means is that the upfront fee for a phone, especially a smartphone, will be really high obviously to help offset the money lost due to the reduction in the minimum term.

I like the overall cap of 24months though because it probably wouldn't be long before 30month contracts come along.

This is off-topic but related but I just noticed that VirginMedia's minimum term is now 18months.  No reason for that because it's not like they are cheap.  They are just copying of TalkTalk but at least TalkTalk's prices are cheaper.
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Reply #2 - Feb 4th, 2011 at 5:32pm
 
bbb_uk wrote on Jan 30th, 2011 at 10:04pm:
This is off-topic but related but I just noticed that VirginMedia's minimum term is now 18months.  No reason for that because it's not like they are cheap.  They are just copying of TalkTalk but at least TalkTalk's prices are cheaper.


Still 12 months in some cases  Wink

http://shop.virginmedia.com/broadband/up-to-10mb.html
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Reply #3 - Feb 8th, 2011 at 4:14pm
 
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Mobile phone providers will have to offer 12 month contracts under new EU rules.

Please forgive me for not reading more on this, but what's to stop providers offering very poor deals merely to satisify this directive, thus resulting in costs rising further for consumers?
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