MaxineN:

 

boosacnoodle:

 

I don’t take issue with the price going up - that’s fair enough. It’s more that the IFP discount was advertised as off the device yet it’s actually applied as a monthly discount that I’m required to stay with Spark to keep getting. Yet if the price goes up every year it’ll be as if I never actually got any discount in the first place. That doesn’t sit right with me.

 

 

The IFP is almost always separate from the plan and the T&Cs(I haven't checked but I can't imagine they're any different from One NZ) would state that they can increase the base plan at any time.

 

Whilst yes it's pretty stink... The old "contract" terms are long gone. The only contract you are on is for the IFP exclusively. Not the plan. It's been like that for a good number of years.

 

100% - contracted plans haven’t been around for the better part of 10 years. Even $100 for unlimited data with Nextflix, a wearable plan AND 400 international minutes still runs rings around the old $140 plan (much higher once you adjust for inflation) that came with a few gb of data.