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Someone with a phone they got earlier than May could easily be worse off by hundreds of euro every year.
The mobile phone companies know who you are and they know you are paying more than you need to but they will continue to take your money until you ask them to stop.
There should be laws in place to stop this happening and, in fact, there are. They have been drawn up by the European Commission but the Government has yet to enact them and is facing fines for delays in doing so. But more of that in a bit. Under long-established rules, once you come to the end of a two-year contract with a mobile phone provider, you own your handset and you are entitled to have it unlocked. Once it is unlocked you can switch to any operator on a Sim-only plan or you can stay with your existing provider but switch to a different tariff which means you will pay a lot less each month.
While companies — and phone makers — try to lure people into an endless cycle of upgrades, the reality is your phone is now so smart that it really does not have to be updated every couple of years. Is the iPhone 12 really so much better than an iPhone 11? Quite apart from the cost to you, the cost to the environment is horrendous. And the lot of many of the workers who make the phones and mine the minerals that make the phones is often horrendous too.
But at least a new phone is something. According to Darragh Cassidy of price comparison and switching site bonkers. You can usually change to a cheaper Sim-only deal with your current provider for a few months if you want to. He says that providers have also benefitted from not having to inform customers when their contract was up, meaning many people would often end up paying more than they needed to after their contract had expired.
The code also says contracts can be no longer than 24 months. However, member states can choose to enforce shorter contracts if they choose. This means providers will have to advise their customers if there is a better product or plan available to which they can sign up. Consumers should be aware that in most cases where you have chosen to opt out from marketing communications as per GDPR guidelines , your provider may not be able to send you best tariff advice at all.
While everything Cassidy says about the European Union directive, the European Electronic Communications Code, is on the money, there is a problem. It was supposed to be implemented in Ireland last December but we missed the deadline for implementing what amounts to the biggest changes to EU telecoms law in almost a decade, leaving the State facing significant fines as a result.
When it confirmed that the deadline was to be missed, the Department of Communication said it needed more legal advice before it could become law. Jack Murray experienced first hand what happens when you stay with your provider outside of the contract period. I called Three Mobile customer service to see if I was due an upgrade. To my surprise, they told me that I was eligible for an upgrade since June Murray then enquired if he had paid his existing handset off since then and the agent confirmed that he had.
I pointed out that surely I should be paying a cheaper fee automatically once the handset was paid off. She said that this was company policy to leave customers on the same policy even if they had paid off a phone. When I asked to be moved she did it immediately, and the service is the exact same. But I have four numbers on that account and when I asked her the expiry dates on the other accounts I was alarmed.
One of the four numbers had been due a renewal since I rejected the offer. This represents less than 20 per cent of the money that I have been overcharged on the account. For the most part, the whole retail experience is pretty similar to your weekly trip to Best Buy to stock up on VCRs and keyboard cleaner. You paid money for these things, so they're yours, right? Well, the VCRs and keyboard cleaner are all yours — have fun weirdo. But in the case of that very expensive smartphone, ownership is a more complicated arrangement.
To put it bluntly: Your cellphone carrier probably owns your phone. Even though you paid for it with your own money, chances are the carrier subsidized a significant portion of the sale price as an incentive for you to sign a one- or two-year contract that's a dozen pages long and drowning in legalese. This is not news. It's pretty much how cell phones have worked in this country since the s, but some recent changes to the laws that govern these contracts mean that you can keep your phone after the contract expires — the physical device, that is — but you lose the right to actually use it.
Over the weekend, it became illegal to unlock your phone. We knew this was coming. Last October, the U. Copyright Office and the Library of Congress who serve as a sort of safety valve for the enforcement of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act DMCA decided that unlocking cell phones amounted to hacking and gave everyone a day grace period to straighten their shit out.
It doesn't matter if you're in or out of a contract.
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