Is this Vodafone thing real?

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laresSat 08/10/11 10:54

"Do you think it would make your mobile phone bill ‘simpler' if your provider started rounding your bill up the nearest 50p? If you're a Vodafone customer that's what will happen to your bill in October."

"Yes, you heard correctly. Millions of Vodafone customers will have their bills rounded up to the nearest 50p from October. Vodafone calls this 'simplifying' bills but mobile phone users might have other words for the sudden increase in their phone bills.
The change comes into effect on 11 October and will affect everyone who took out a contract before February this year. For example if you normally pay £24.57 or £31.65 a month you'll now be paying £25 and £32 respectively.

Vodafone promises that no one will pay more than an extra 49p each month or £5.88 a year. Admittedly that's not much but Vodafone will be raking it in. Exact figures are hard to come by but the network has about 19 million customers in the UK and if just half of them paid an extra £5.88 a year that adds up to £55.8m. Nice work if you can get it.

The 'simplifying' or rounding up of bills isn't all Vodafone's changing. It's also putting up prices for people who go over their data or call allowance. From 11 October, calls to any UK mobile or UK landline number (except 0800, 0845, 0870, and numbers starting with 090) or UK voicemail will be charged at a flat rate of 35p per minute.

Currently many existing customers pay 21p a minute for calls to landlines, Vodafone mobiles and voicemail so the price hike represents an increase of a 40% for these calls. However, at the moment calls to other UK mobile networks (non-Vodafone) and 0871 numbers typically cost 36p so the cost of these calls will fall slightly."

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