Posted 24 October 2023

Best iPhone 15 Pro Max deals for Vodafone customers

I'm pretty tied to Vodafone for the best signal in my area and I have tried to find the best iPhone 15 Pro max deal on that network. Does anyone see any issues with this deal? 150GB data plus unlimited calls/texts for £95 up front followed by 24x £57/month payments - works out to be £1463 overall.

uswitch.com/mob…als

I know ID mobile offer a cheaper deal but they're a 3 MVNO and Im looking for Vodafone or its MVNOs at the moment.

My alternative was just to buy the iPhone 15 Pro max out at £1200 and use a cheap Vodafone MVNO but with this deal im effectively paying just £7 per month for the service over the iPhone itself.
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  1. FrugalFergal's avatar
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    I actually just rang Vodafone themselves asking for the best possible deal on the iPhone 15 Pro max with 150GB data for the phone and service over 24 months and they quoted me £81/m + £49 up front which is £1993! I did point out i could get the same deal through Uswitch and pay just £1463 - saving over £500. The only pushback they could give me was that I wouldnt be able to keep my old number. Well my existing number would become a PAYG number, which i could then port to a rival PAYG network and then port it back to Vodafone to replace any new number. He didnt say that was a bad deal but Im surprised they couldnt come close to matching it.
  2. one_eight_seven's avatar
    Have you taken into consideration the inflationary increases? That £57pm becomes £62pm in 5 months time then it becomes £69pm in 17 months time. That’s £150+ added to the total cost.

    Also, when will you have the phone delivered? Some places saying by end of November others before end of the year!

    All that said, cheaper can be found if 100GB is enough or you’re happy to pay a lot more up front thereby reducing your monthly payments and in turn increases.

    Edit: adjusted numbers (edited)
    FrugalFergal's avatar
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    Thank you for those numbers. That adds a different perspective to things. On Vodafone's website they're uplifting 14.4%.

    5m x £57 = £285
    12m x £65.21 = £782.52
    7m x £74.60 = £522.20
    So £1589.72 over 24 months (minus £1200 for the phone) so an average of £16.23/m - not the £7/m over the base iPhone it seems initially

    With the £35/m deal (£530 up front)

    5m x £35 = £175
    12m x £40 = £480
    7m x £45.80 = £320
    £975 service + £530 up front = £1505 (minus £1200 for the phone) = £305/24m = £12.73 - so £3.50 a month better off.

    However if that £435 difference in up front costs was put into a 5% interest account that would earn £1.81 per month in interest - so the savings are reduced to £1.68 per month - not exactly earth shattering given the up front cost, plus you'd get the extra 50GB of data if you could possibly use it at all.

    Thanks for your input 1_8_7 (edited)
  3. ali254's avatar
    Never buy contract deals directly, if you wait around 2-3 months the discounted deals for Vodafone will start popping up on 3rd party sellers like affordable mobiles or mobiles.co.uk
    FrugalFergal's avatar
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    I had a chat with Vodafone yesterday and they said they were limited by the deals they can offer someone on an existing contract. They said if I moved to PAYG then new offers open up. I'm not a heavy data user but they offered me 20GB 5G data with unlimited everything else for £8 per month on a 24m contract (it will go up each April) but that was better than anything else I could find online. If I bought my own iPhone 15 Pro Max for £50 per month directly from Apple, Im looking at £58 per month for the phone and service.

    With the existing Vodafone deals (from their website for current/new owners) their (as you can see from the previous comments) would go from £57 > £65 > £74 per month over 24 months. With my current option it would go from £58 > £59.15 > £60.47 per month if the rise is 14.4% each year. That's a pretty negligible increase.
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