Amigo and Uzo will now have television services and have lowered prices and loyalty to meet the upheaval brought by Digi. However, there are questions about the areas where fiber optic packages are available.
As promised, the three major telecommunications operators in the national market have already started the counterattack against the Romanian operator Digi, offering lower prices, more comprehensive packages and shorter loyalty periods.
Amigo, owned by Vodafone, announced this Friday new offers with prices starting at 5 euros per month for a mobile tariff with 100 GB of data or 7 euros for unlimited data. Before this announcement, the lowest price was 10 euros and there was no unlimited data offer.
The price of optical fiber also fell from 27 euros to 15 euros and loyalty now exceeds three months, just like Digi, instead of the two years that were the standard in the market before the arrival of the Romanian company.
Amigo will now also have a television offer, which adds another seven euros to the package, with the final price being 22 euros. The TV service it only has 60 channelsmissing all SIC channels and CMTV — the same as Digi. Unlike the Romanian operator, where customers can customize their package, Amigo’s offer requires customers to purchase fiber and television together, and it is not possible to subscribe to just the television.
These Amigo prices will be offered until the end of the year, but will rise by three euros from 2025 onwards, except in the case of the fixed offer, where the fiber speed drops by half, says .
On the side of Uzo, which is owned by MEO, there are also changes. The fixed internet offer with speeds of up to 1 Gbps became cheaper, falling from R$27 per month to R$15, with a six month loyalty.
The brand also announced a new television service available through an application, from which the SIC and CMTV channels are again absent. To subscribe to the television service — which costs an additional 15 euros — the customer must subscribe to the internet, paying a total of 30 euros for both services.
In mobile tariff plans, Uzo now offers 200 GB of data for 10 euros per month and started giving possibility of accumulating datajust like Digi, which allows data that you didn’t spend in one month to accumulate until the end of the following month. Previously, for 10 euros a month, customers only had 10 GB of data and there were two higher levels — 20 GB for 15 euros or 30 GB for 20 euros.
For now, Woo, which is owned by NOS, has not yet announced changes to packages, but the website says it will start offering a television service coming soon, just like Amigo and Uzo.
On the WTF side, which is also from NOS and offers mobile tariffs, there are several customers who report receiving messages announcing increases of up to 10 times in data no price changes.
Offer only where Digi is already operational?
Having recently entered the Portuguese market, there are several regions of the country where Digi does not offer fiber optic services as it does not have coverage and is still installing cables.
Upon seeing the new offers from Uzo and Amigo, several members of the Reddit page r/digipt reported that they decided to adhere to these new conditions, but found that the services are unavailable in their areas — despite their parent brands already having the infrastructure for fiber optics there.
“I went to the Amigo website and saw that they offer 1 Gbps fiber + 60 channels for the same price as Digi (R$22/month). I thought it would be a good chance for me, as I’m going to move, because Digi unfortunately still doesn’t have fiber coverage in the region. Until…. I realized that Amigo, despite being from Vodafone, does not offer services in my area. From what I understand they they only compete with Digi in the areas where it has coverage“, reports a user in a .
The user guarantees that he will join Digi “as soon as it is available, even if it is out of pride”. “Instead of leveraging the coverage they already have to retain customers before Digi gets there, do this stupidity“, criticizes.
In another post, users even created one to try to understand whether low-cost carriers are really only offering these new, cheaper packages in places where Digi is already an alternative.
“The cartel has this way of working. Where there is Digi, they offer low-cost coverage. Where there is not, they only offer the “main” services. It’s about changing and letting it burnmy boys”, suggests one of the comments.
