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O2 says goodbye to unlimited data plans
June 10, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka
Carriers
O2 has joined the budding movement of carriers doing away with unlimited data plans. Today the company announced new tariff options that will introduced tiered-data options for all new customers.
New tariffs that begin on June 24 will require one of three data options, none of which will include an unlimited option. Subscribers can pay £25 for 500MB, £40 for 750MB, and £60 for 1GB of data per month. Users who go over those totals will have to purchase additional data of £5 for 500MB or £10 for 1GB.
According to O2, only 3% of its customers will be affected by this change. Existing tariffs with unlimited data will be honored, and a promotion for unlimited data will be available for new customers until October. Cloud and BT Hotspots will still be available to users.
Goodbye O2 then, that's rediculously expensive!
Those are just brutal prices. Reminds me of the old Bell Canada $10 / Meg (yes, meg) they had a few years back.
UK’s Tele Coms not keeping pace with demand I appreciate that O2 is at least being honest informing its customers. Yet this does not get away from the fact that the telecommunications Companies in the UK are not keeping pace with the huge increased demand for legitimate downloaded products. Meanwhile the OFT Office of Fair Trading should halt the miss selling of Broadband by many ISP’s falsely stating unlimited usage when in fact they are not. Businesses are being seriously affected by the restrictions placed on ‘Legitimate Downloads’ of both music and Movies due to low Gig caps. All this at time when new products, which keep markets flowing, are being seriously affected. The UK Government meanwhile is seeking to criminalize all Net users to gain revenue by the introduction of new Laws. See here for details: http://tinyurl.com/35phmvt Signed Carl Barron Chairman of agpcuk