Mobile phone charges

[PatTheRat]

Around a year and a half ago, I worked for o2 for a short while. While there, we were all told that OFTEL (or whoever regulates the mobile industry) had told mobile phone companies to reduce their prices. Is this still going to happen, because if anything, prices seem to be rising. For example, on o2 it used to be 2p a minute for weekend calls to landlines or other o2 numbers, and that went up to 5p. Text messages used to be 10p, and they are now 12p (a discrace considering it only actually costs o2 around 1p for every text sent).

 

Anyone any info???

[BenDToy]

As long as people are prepared to pay the ludicrous charges, then it will continue unless thay are actually compelled to reduce them. The latest justification is the amount of money they paid for the 3G licences, but who forced them to pay these prices? So a lesson for all of you. Stop sending texts and the price will start to plummet. Otherwise, don't complain about the cost. Anyway, who says it only costs 1p to send a text? That obviously doesn't take into account the licensing costs, the infrastructure and such like. It is just the incremental cost of sending 1 text message, which is hardly a fair comparison.

[stevie21]

Prices go up all the time. It's called inflation.