Mobile Industry Review - Latest Comments in Vodafone UK adds 500mb of internet for all pay monthly customers

Re: Vodafone UK adds 500mb of internet for all pay monthly customers

Andrew Grill — Fri, 02 May 2008 05:41:34 -0000

Ewan, "all pay monthly customers" may be a bit broad. We small business Vodafone customers seem to be left behind. I am on a small business 300 plan - I get great call rates, roaming with passport, low international rates BUT I have to pay £15/month to get just 20MB of mobile internet.

And, I pay £15/month for my VF 3G data card and get 3GB! Why do handset business data users get slugged for mobile internet?

On another (pre-paid) test phone I get 15MB/day for £1 of 120MB or £7.50 per month with the add-on. But for business users - we've been stuck with the same, boring internet data plans for 18 months.

Perhaps the deal will eventually spread to business plans. Generally I spend between £300 and £500 per month as a business user (I travel a lot so data roaming makes the bill higher), but get no relief on the UK data for my handset......

Hopefully the small business plan product manager in Newbury will receive a copy of this from the forums team - or perhaps Ewan can go into bat with a longer article/opinion piece on this.

Re: Vodafone UK adds 500mb of internet for all pay monthly customers

Anthony — Thu, 01 May 2008 08:35:15 -0000

My sister will be happy, she was paying £7.50 for the 120 meg and was using it it sparingly (perhaps too sparingly, given the speed) on her iPhone.

Re: Vodafone UK adds 500mb of internet for all pay monthly customers

Sven Latham — Thu, 01 May 2008 07:14:31 -0000

"Every customer on a pay monthly contract over £40 or higher will automatically get 500mb of inclusive mobile internet access as part of their deal"

Just called up Vodafone to see whether I could now switch off my £7.50 data bundle, hoping that I would have an automatic 500Mb bundle starting today (I currently pay £44+VAT/month just for the tariff). However, to get this I would need to extend my contract for six months, and Stop the Clock suddenly becomes a £5 chargeable extra (was included in my contract for free).

Re: Vodafone UK adds 500mb of internet for all pay monthly customers

James Whatley — Thu, 01 May 2008 07:12:40 -0000

900mins + 3000texts + 500mb = £45pcm for one dude named Whatley.

Job. Done.

Re: Vodafone UK adds 500mb of internet for all pay monthly customers

Mike42 — Thu, 01 May 2008 05:59:19 -0000

Ah. So 'Unlimited' now means 500MB. Glad that's clear.

Do I hear 250? 200?

Race you to the bottom of the advertising credibility tree...