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Motel75 · **Price increases all around for UK prepaid -** 18-11-2010, 08:54

I was checking the current offers for the major UK operators and it seems all have increased their prepaid rates significantly over the last couple of years. The billing increment is now pretty much 60/1 for everyone, and the per-minute rate is 20-25p (T-Mobile has a 10p cpmmunity tariff but is otherwise 25p; Vodafone 21p, etc). The price cap for mobile internet is now generally one pound per day, up from 30-50p. On the plus side, all except Virgin offer cheap international calls as a bolt-on package. (Virgin now seems to be the least competitive prepaid provider - its international rates haven't changed since 1999.)

So gone are the days of 15p/min for the first 5 min per day and 5p after that with one-second billing.

Granted, the pound has lost a bit of value lately, but I wonder if the Orange-TMO merger, and the neglect of "Mobile by Virgin Media" aren't major factors here.

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Motel75 (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Pioneer Posts: 573 Join Date: 15 Jun 2006 Location: Berlin Country:	Price increases all around for UK prepaid - 18-11-2010, 08:54 I was checking the current offers for the major UK operators and it seems all have increased their prepaid rates significantly over the last couple of years. The billing increment is now pretty much 60/1 for everyone, and the per-minute rate is 20-25p (T-Mobile has a 10p cpmmunity tariff but is otherwise 25p; Vodafone 21p, etc). The price cap for mobile internet is now generally one pound per day, up from 30-50p. On the plus side, all except Virgin offer cheap international calls as a bolt-on package. (Virgin now seems to be the least competitive prepaid provider - its international rates haven't changed since 1999.) So gone are the days of 15p/min for the first 5 min per day and 5p after that with one-second billing. Granted, the pound has lost a bit of value lately, but I wonder if the Orange-TMO merger, and the neglect of "Mobile by Virgin Media" aren't major factors here. Current DE: Vodafone, Netzklub; PL: Klucz, Virgin; UK: Giffgaff, Vodafone; US: T-Mobile; CA: 7-Eleven; IT: Vodafone; UA: Kyivstar; FR: Bouygues; GR: Vodafone Former DE: Vodafone, T-Mobile, O2, Blauworld, 01051mobile, Solomo, Lycamobile, Simyo, Congstar, Fonic, Edeka Mobile, Lidl Mobile; PL: Heyah, Era, Virgin, Sami Swoi, Orange, POP, iPlus, Carrefour Mova, Telepin Mobi, Play, Lycamobile, T-Mobile; UK: Vodafone, T-Mobile, Virgin; US: T-Mobile, AT&T, Lycamobile; CZ: Vodafone, Oskar; ES: Lebara; GR: Vodafone, Wind; UA: Vodafone; IL: Orange; TR: Turkcell