Telfort raises the prices for mobile internet; new customers pay on average nearly a quarter more for their data plan. According to Telfort, that is necessary because the data usage of customers increases. For existing customers, nothing changes.
Average costs for a Telfort-internet, with 23 percent. The increase only applies to mobile internet on phones; the internetbundels for laptops and tablets remain the same. Telfort has the new prices on Monday morning announced.
Relatively speaking, the change is greatest for customers with a small data bundle of 200MB. They are going to 28.8 percent more pay. Effectively, the overall increase down to 2 euros extra per month; they are now going 8,95 euro pay. New customers with larger bundles of 3 euros per month extra pay. A 1000MB-subscription rises with the price of 10,95 to 13,95, an increase of more than a quarter.
New customers with a 1500MB bundle or a 1000MB-BlackBerry-bundle go 18,95 euro per month, an increase of just 19 percent. The new prices apply for both sim-only subscriptions and subscriptions with a device. For existing customers, nothing changes, until they renew subscription.
Telfort is another provider that is the mobile internet more expensive. Earlier, the three major providers with an own network, as well as a number of virtual providers. According to the sector, price increases are necessary because the use of mobile internet is increasing rapidly and the providers of the investments in the network need to repay. Therefore, to exchange virtually all of the telco’s unlimited internetbundels and fair use policies for hard data limits.
In addition to the price increase introduced Telfort a new prepaid plan, which calls per minute will be charged instead of per second. In return paying customers per minute less; where normal prepaid customers 35 cents per minute are required to file, pay customers of the so-called Prepaid15 but 15 cents per minute. However, is texting with Prepaid15 with 15 cents per message almost twice as expensive as normal prepaidtarief. In both cases, the need for mobile internet is 2.50 euro per MB to be afgetikt.
Surf&e-mail bundle
Old rate
New rate
Difference
200MB
€6,95
€8,95
28,8%
1000MB
€10,95
€13,95
27.4% of
1500MB
€15,95
€18,95
18,8%
1000MB BlackBerry
€15,95
€18,95
18,8%