EE’s Legacy T-Mobile UK PAYG Customers Hit by Data Booster Price Hike

Wait.. T-Mobile, aren’t they dead? Apparently not because EE has started informing some of their legacy pay-as-you-go using T-Mobile customers that the price of a 30 days, 30 days rolling or 6 month Internet data booster add-on will double in price from 10th October 2016.

The “Internet on your phone” Boosters are available to customers on the following T-Mobile tariffs: Everyday plan, Talk plan, Text plan, International plan or BlackBerry® plan. In a statement EE said (here), “We know they’re not popular but we haven’t actually increased any of our rates since 2013, and in that time the costs of running our business have continued to rise. Our EE pay as you go rates are staying the same and you can buy packs of minutes, data and texts to get even better value.”

It’s worth pointing out that the 30 day and 6 month booster are both said to include a “fair use policy of 500MB a calendar month,” which isn’t much by modern standards. Never the less the new prices do seem designed to nudge legacy users over to an EE tariff, where a £1 Data Pack will get you 100MB, 10 texts and 10 minutes for 7 days or a £10 Data Pack will give you 1GB of data, 1000 texts and 100 minutes for 30 days.