Many providers and manufacturers are currently announcing price increases for their services and products. The network operators Telekom, Vodafone and O2 have also raised their prices. Mobile Internet flat rates are affected.
At Deutsche Telekom, the price increase for day flats was a month ago. Now Vodafone and O2 are following, who are also raising the prices for their mobile internet daily flat rates. Customers will have to pay up to 20 percent more in the future.
Deutsche Telekom is the pioneer
Both contract and prepaid customers can book Internet daily flat rates as required, with which they can surf throughout Germany. This is useful, for example, if the data volume of the mobile phone tariff is not sufficient or you otherwise do not use mobile Internet at all. Due to the usually high inclusive volume, you can surf with the DayFlats almost like at home.
Deutsche Telekom already increased the price of the DayFlat umlimited tariff at the beginning of October. Instead of EUR 5.95, customers have since been paying EUR 6.95 to book the 24-hour flat rate. The tariff can be used in Germany and in country group 1 (EU and EEA countries) including Switzerland and Great Britain and offers unlimited and unrestricted data volume for 24 hours from booking. The offer is available for both tablet and smartphone users.
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Vodafone and O2 are also making internet daily flat rates more expensive
The network operators Vodafone and O2 are now doing the same as Telekom. Here, too, the respective Internet daily flat rates are more expensive than before. Unlike Telekom, the price increase does not affect all customers.
Vodafone is increasing the prices for the DataPush option for contract customers, but is leaving the costs for the prepaid options untouched. Until now, Vodafone offered the unlimited Internet daily flat rate DataPush for EUR 5.99. In the meantime, however, the price per 24 hours has climbed to 6.99 euros. The DayFlat can be booked in all GigaMobil and GigaMobil Young tariffs via the Vodafone app. As with all Internet daily flat rates of this type, the option ends automatically after 24 hours, and the data volume of the cell phone tariff actually booked then comes into effect again.
Vodafone prepaid customers can choose between two Internet daily flat rates, which Vodafone has not made more expensive up until now. On the one hand there is the DayFlat 10 GB for 4.99 euros, on the other hand the DayFlat Unlimited for 6.99 euros. Despite its name, the latter does not offer unlimited data volume, but is limited to 100 GB. So the bottom line is that the option is even more expensive than the more expensive contract counterpart. Both DayFlats can be booked by texting “Day” or “Day100” to 80808.
With O2, too, the price for the Internet daily flat rate increases by 1 euro. Instead of 4.99 euros, the provider now charges 5.99 euros for the offer and is therefore slightly cheaper than the two competitors. The new price applies to both the Day Pack Unlimited for contract customers and the Day Pack L package for prepaid users. With the latter, the included data volume is limited to 25 GB.
One euro more per booking doesn’t sound like a lot, but it quickly adds up when you use it several times. After all, we are talking about a price increase of 20 percent for O2 and almost 17 percent for Vodafone and Telekom.