Phones4U cranks up its HTC Desire tariffs

The HTC Desire STOCK CRISIS that is still GRIPPING THE NATION and seeing children and old ladies SOBBING in the STREETS, unable to get their hands on a Desire, is seeing another case of price raising from the operators – this time from retailer Phones4U and Orange.

A couple of weeks back, Phones4U was doing a Desire on an Orange connection for £25 on an 18 month contract – now it’s stuck it up to £27.50 per month and you have to sign up for the full, oppressive 24 month term with NO POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE.

The old 18-month package is on the left, the new 24-month “deal” on to the right:

phones4u htc desire orange-original phones4u htc desire orange-new

That is now P4U’s new cheapest monthly tariff, and takes the cost of a Desire over the lifetime of the contract up from a reasonable £450 to a total of £660 – quite the difference, even though you do now get twice the number of minutes.

You also get “unlimited” internet with that Orange Panther package, though, so… perhaps it’s not so bad after all if you’re a seriously heavy web user and Orange owes you a favour.

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  1. Alan

     /  April 24, 2010

    I ordered the £25 package on wednesday, thursay they phoned to say this is no longer avaliable with p4u but their sister company dial a phone are still doing the £25 deal, got i delivered today.

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  2. Gary C

     /  April 24, 2010

    Ahh, so nice to see a happy consumer :)

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  3. chris

     /  April 26, 2010

    also on the panther you get free orange maps sat nav which works pretty well

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