Three tariff changes

2007-10-01_203542.pngThree announced a new set of tariffs today… Similar to T-Mobile’s ‘Flext’ tariffs they provide an allowance of credit that can be spent on minutes of voice calls or text messages - 1 min = 1 text. However, there’s a few other changes on their website which have otherwise gone un-commented:

  • All tariffs are now 18 months.
  • X-Series Gold is listed as available with a free Slingbox (Actually it’s listed twice… Once with, once without, but both at the same price - £10 per month - so why wouldn’t you have it?)
  • All handsets are now ‘free’ at the time of purchase, but add an additional monthly payment to the handset tariff - from nothing (all the usual free models) to £12 per month (for the N95).

I think this last move is particularly smart - if you do the maths, the handsets are still the same price as before, but effectively provided with ‘interest free’ credit over the contract. This makes handsets more accessible to those who’d like to spread the cost without the pain of credit-card interest rates and (since the handset price remains the same per month regardless of tariff) makes the higher value tariffs appear better value for money as they don’t include larger handset subsidies…

N95 with 300 mins or texts per month, plus X-Series Gold and a free SlingBox = £666 over 18 months. No comment (except that’s market-leading pricing!) :-)

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