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Posted by Pete95
Seems the price increase for UK mobiles on Orange has come into effect then, the cheapest P800 on talk400 is now £109.95 - I paid £24.95 last week - Im glad I bought it when I did!!

A P800 on about a 30quid contract is now around £300!!!!


Posted by ShaunC
Yeah, so i see! I got mine last week, if i had got the same today, the p800 would be £45 more on VodaUK..
Ouch.

Posted by [Serge]
I can't believe you guys are complaining!

Over here in Belgium there's no such thing as buying phones with contracts! If we want a new phone, we have to pay full price... And for the record: that's currently 830 euros...

Posted by Strangely
Yes but maybe your tariffs are cheaper there in Belgium?

Posted by lingart
Yup yup

I got mine last week for £25 as well

I wouldnt pay £110 for it.

800 Euros seems steep when you can get it from SE for £400

Posted by sosojerk
MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNN,
Only 25 euros.
Here,in Romania,P800 is 750 with subscription (almost full price).
Nasty.

Posted by El Jeffroz
Quote:

On 2003-03-31 20:46, [Serge] wrote:
I can't believe you guys are complaining!

Over here in Belgium there's no such thing as buying phones with contracts! If we want a new phone, we have to pay full price... And for the record: that's currently 830 euros...



Belgium does not have contracts? That sounds pretty hard to believe. I personally think you mean that once you have a contract and want a new phone, you have to buy the phone seperately at the full price and transfer the SIM, or get a new contract (and number) at a reduced phone price and pay double monthly fees. This is about the same as in NL.

You're lucky if you happen to need a new contract when buying your P800, saves you a lot of money

Posted by [Serge]
Believe me if I say that there's no such thing as buying a new phone at special rates with contracts!

If you want a new phone or contract, you have to get them separately.

Posted by hudsonhawk
hmm...here in turkey no special tariffs no payment options,880 euros...still sad about that increase? ;)

Posted by 2unique
Try Thailand equivalent of 500 pounds, and no discounts. GB is still the only place where phones are subsidised by phone companies, I wish the rest of the world would catch on.

Posted by thanasis
Nope the UK is not the only place where phones are subsidises. In Greece 9 out of twelve months (3 months of no subsidising allowed) most of the networks provide quite heavy subsidies. You could the T68i free in June! And before vodafone entered the greek market i have to say tat companies were much more generous when subsidising phones when upgrading

Posted by steve10574
vodafone retail did not put the price of the the p800 up or the price of the gd86 or gx10

and if you spend lots on your bill (over 70 pounds) you should still get a good price on your upgrade

Posted by Jammers
Mine was £50 on Talk 400 but now its £119.99

Posted by malcs
orange did say in their catalogue that the P800 would have a special introductory price that would be available for a little while-- i guess it must have finally expired??

Posted by Strangely
The point is we do get phones for less here but we pay for it with more expensive tarrifs!

Posted by Miss UK
Hmm on o2 online ur entitled to a FREE HANDSET every year as upgrade, I wonder if they'll still do it!!! Be gud to have price in calls reduced though guys that's why phones have gone up abit! ;)

Posted by sunjivas
price of calls have/will reduced slightly, price of fones has gone up quite considerably

Posted by Miss UK
Pity international calls are still steep! Costs me £1 pm to phone EUROPE GRRR hope the prices decrease!!!!!


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