05-04-2025 11:14 AM
Okay,
So I've been trying to make sense of this while waiting for any fantastic deals this year while out of contract sadly my bill has jumped up to £200 a month and that's without a new contract for 3 phones.
This morning I was looking again for offers and seemingly everything has gone overboard and even for an account that's been loyal for the last 30 years I'm disgusted.
Then this jumps out at me for just upgrading my number.
Switched to other phones on the account and it was the same across it,so I rang upgrades and it put me through to retentions and the attitude I got for pointing this out was "yeah that's right so what's your problem,so do you want to do the upgrade then or what" worse bit was they also wanted me to tell them the FULL account password which felt Dangerous but in the end I got the advisor to be selective with a sigh.
This really really is making me consider changing networks as the service is going down hill for such a premium network that all us customers helped build from the ground up in the "Orange" Days when "the futures bright,the futures Orange" it was even more fun to own a mobile phone.
Shame on you all EE,you have lost your way in this digital world it seems.
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08-04-2025 01:07 PM - edited 08-04-2025 01:12 PM
@Alex_H That's what I thought,it's when I logged into my account via the web and clicked upgrades where it shows the phone and number you want to upgrade then that screengrab I posted is right there right in front of you,that's why I nearly had a heart attack on top of the £200 bill that was £75.
The retentions agent just didn't care what I was saying and said it was correct as I said above and wasn't interested on anything I had to say about how loyal we had been etc and just changed the subject asking me about doing the upgrade.
It's not just one bad experience though,all the users on my account have been complaining from the network going down to losing access to phone signal and mobile data recently and having to reset network settings in the middle of a town to reconnect when it was working fine and that I was on a local businesses WIFI just to try and call Customer Services only to get cut off when the reset was done.
My son's phone literally melted when it had the Android 13 update 6 months in and his screen came out of the frame but no help was available from EE,there shops,the device manufacturer instead I had to still pay the contract off and he had no phone for the remainder.
As you can see above,the screen is held on by it's ribbon which has now snapped since this was taken,I've never known anything like this in all our times of being EE Customers...bring back Orange I say and care about the people paying for the network.
05-04-2025 12:20 PM - edited 05-04-2025 12:29 PM
@Junedavies1949 It’s actually built on the T-Mobile network after the merger between Orange and T-Mobile and then became known as Everything Everywhere 2010 and then it got change to just EE ( 2012 ) Nothing got used on the old orange network it’s didn’t support 4G but T-Mobiles network did.
And I think that’s a glitch because no one will agree to take out a contract with 2 price increases at that cost per year. But if it s correct I’ll probably change providers myself.
it’s meant to be £1.50
05-04-2025 02:05 PM
Hi @Junedavies1949,
Welcome to the EE Community
I am sorry to hear of the experience you had speaking to us on the phone, that is disappointing and definitely not something we expect. I understand one bad experience can lead you to want to change.
Regarding the annual price increase, that definitely looks incorrect. Where exactly is it you do see that pop up?
This years price change has just went into effect 1st April. If your plan started on or before 9th April 2024 then your price increase would be CPI+3.9% which worked out as 6.4% increase.
Flex pay plans taken from 10th April 2024 would have a flat £1.50 increase on the airtime plan. It seems the part of the website you are on may be reporting the £1.50 mistakenly as £14.50.
Alex
08-04-2025 12:50 PM
@Chris_B That's why I rang up to confirm it,I've already got my eyes on another network but they use three as there main network,I do remember the Orange and T-Mobile merger as if it was yesterday and watch our phones jump between network names was awesome...sadly waking up In 2012 to a single network name spoiled things but we were still on Orange at the time and we hadn't moved over.
I've even had to take the EE APP off my phone as it was taking up to much device space and seemed to only log me in half the time and then just open the mobile browser with my account details the newer updates just got too big to install and never seemed to work properly.
But I standby what I said,EE Seems to have lost there way in being loyal to there customers.
08-04-2025 01:07 PM - edited 08-04-2025 01:12 PM
@Alex_H That's what I thought,it's when I logged into my account via the web and clicked upgrades where it shows the phone and number you want to upgrade then that screengrab I posted is right there right in front of you,that's why I nearly had a heart attack on top of the £200 bill that was £75.
The retentions agent just didn't care what I was saying and said it was correct as I said above and wasn't interested on anything I had to say about how loyal we had been etc and just changed the subject asking me about doing the upgrade.
It's not just one bad experience though,all the users on my account have been complaining from the network going down to losing access to phone signal and mobile data recently and having to reset network settings in the middle of a town to reconnect when it was working fine and that I was on a local businesses WIFI just to try and call Customer Services only to get cut off when the reset was done.
My son's phone literally melted when it had the Android 13 update 6 months in and his screen came out of the frame but no help was available from EE,there shops,the device manufacturer instead I had to still pay the contract off and he had no phone for the remainder.
As you can see above,the screen is held on by it's ribbon which has now snapped since this was taken,I've never known anything like this in all our times of being EE Customers...bring back Orange I say and care about the people paying for the network.
08-04-2025 02:01 PM
@Junedavies1949 The phone getting hot is the battery working over time, batteries do generate heat when power is being drained rapidly. If the battery also swelled it can push the screen off. Batteries are a consumable product, you don’t say what phone this is or how old it is.