No one is going to blink for the moment because they don't have to. When the next iPhone rolls around and people want to upgrade then, maybe, someone will try to undercut the competition in order to attract the upgraders but I have my doubts about this. It's not really in anyone's interest to reduce the price, particularly if demand remains high.
The expectations are that Vodafone will be the ones to push a price-drop as they'll be playing catch-up even more than Orange, plus with Orange's impending merger with T-Mobile, Voda will find themselves in third place and with (currently) little to offer customer by way of an incentive to choose them.
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Sadly to report, these tarrifs are neigh on identical to O2's pricing
Hands up all those people who are shocked by this news...
...anyone..?
If you'd studied economics at school you'd have learnt that the point of competition is to keep prices the same or higher where possible.
not at all.
one of them will blink and lower a few weeks after when voda have it to.
No one is going to blink for the moment because they don't have to. When the next iPhone rolls around and people want to upgrade then, maybe, someone will try to undercut the competition in order to attract the upgraders but I have my doubts about this. It's not really in anyone's interest to reduce the price, particularly if demand remains high.
The expectations are that Vodafone will be the ones to push a price-drop as they'll be playing catch-up even more than Orange, plus with Orange's impending merger with T-Mobile, Voda will find themselves in third place and with (currently) little to offer customer by way of an incentive to choose them.
So, maybe a price-drop in Jan/Feb then.
Sorry to be that guy, but it's 'nigh'.
That is to say, horses 'neigh'.