Hi no additional costs charge more if the user through the data bundle. That the KPN-daughter published. With the new subscriptions, on the 12th of march to enter, customers can appliances ‘lease’.
For existing users, nothing changes, except if they are a new subscription. After exceeding the bundle, the user can further surf the internet at 32Kbps, according to Hi enough to messages to send. The user also has the option to continue to access the internet on the speed of the subscription by an extra bundle of 250MB or 1GB.
In addition, the link between voice minutes, sms and mobile internet released; users can even subscriptions for phones without minutes of shut down, so has the provider disclosed in a private event in Amsterdam.
Instead of traditional subscriptions, which allows the user to his device, the rest, Hi with toestellease. The user then pays a fixed amount per month for repayment of the purchase price of the unit, regardless of call minutes, sms and mobile internet. The base price is 0 euros, for which the most basic devices can be ‘leased’. There are eleven categories, designated with letters.
The most expensive category contains presumably a rent of probably 30 to 35 euros per month. “If you take the price divide by 24, so you have an idea of the rent”, says Robbert Bakker of Hi. A Samsung Galaxy S II would be about 20 euros per month cost, a iPhone 4S 64GB for about 34 euros. A fairly standard mid-range smartphone will cost around 12 euros per month extra.
If the phone breaks, the user will be given within four hours of a replacement device, promises the KPN-daughter. The replacement unit always runs on the same operating system. After two years, the user can on the device for a few tens or buy a new subscription.
The subscription forms Hi Bel&SMS, Hi Web and Messaging to be replaced by a subscription service where the user bundle for mobile internet and voice minutes/text message, and also an amount for the lease of the equipment must be paid. The price for the purchase of the device, which is now in the subscription, so separately. The prices for equipment leasing are only on the 1st of march will be announced. “We want to give the competition any wiser than they already are,” says Baker.
The new rates of Hi are the first since parent company KPN announced the price change. Due to a declining market share was the telephone company that the helm had to. KPN was at the end of 2011, 45 percent of the market, while the beginning of 2011, 47 percent had. The prices were down, while there is more integration should take place with services such as Spotify. Hi already offered, since a few weeks, a bundle that includes a ‘free’ Spotify Premium subscription. Normally cost such a subscription is only a tenner per month, while the user at KPN 500MB of data to get.
New abo’s Hi
Call or sms
Price
No
0
0
Bundle 75
75
5
Bundle 150
150
10
Bundle 300
300
15
Bundle of 500
500
25
Bundle of 1000
1000
45
Mobile internet at Hi
Bundle
Price
Speed
Light
0MB
10
32Kbps
Medium
500MB
17,50
2Mbps
Large (+ unlimited sms)
1GB
22,50
7.2 Mbps
XL (+ unlimited sms, unlimited calls Hi-customers)
2GB
30
14.4 Mbps