That must only be for heavy PAYG customers, minimums like those for calls and text would be extreme for the others. And given they have only just recently moved many to Simply 8p it clearly isn't for everyone.
The £2 for 200MB has been their (ridiculous) PAYG data charge for a while.
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I know someone who isn't a particularly heavy user that wasn't moved to Simply 8p in September so I expect there might be a 3rd tier, a middle tier between the one on this new article and Simply 8p that they may be moving the remaining customers onto.
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I found the link on the Virgin Mobile forums.
https://virginmedia.com/paygnov
They are clearly sending different changes to different customers, and clearly they sent it to the wrong people in some instances and hence the newspaper article.
Hopefully they will fix it.