This will allow Them to pay their workers more, roll out faster and provided even more subsidised broad band for the less well off!
Won’t it?
I haggle aggressively and almost always cancel and wait for the call back.
VM 100 Mb
£21 a month with 02 discount used for money off rather than free speed boost.
It would be double that if I did nothing.
While residential energy prices are capped, buisness rates aren’t. Got to imagine the energy companies are squeezing businesses where possible and Open Reach & VM will have massive energy costs to run their networks. Measuring it against inflation alone wouldn’t seem to tell the while story for their increased costs.
Also got to worry about what that means for the smaller hyperfast networks that have been popping up. They’ll be screwed more by energy companies which may result in a bunch going under and further setting back UK Internet speeds.
Guess the company CEOs need their 3rd yacht right this minute. Seriously though this is disgusting considering how much people are already struggling atm :<.
We’re constantly rich-splained that we all have to be poor or there would be a “wage price spiral”.
Not a fucking whisper of the Profit Price Spiral. Loads of this current inflation problem is simply profiteering.
I saw sky offering sign up before the end of the month for 18 months they guarantee no price rises during the contract.
Gracious of them as it means they skip next years increase but apply the one due just after that contract ends if you do nothing then.
Still the way things are going might help prevent it going up by a quarter next April.
I shop around every time for the best deal. Just changed last month, and in fairness, the new contract is £10 a month cheaper and twice as fast. If I hadn’t cocked up, I’d have had £50 cashback through Quidco too.
It’s worth a reminder that if you’ve got a decent 4g/5g signal, you might not need a landline broadband connection at all. Just enable hot-spot on your mobile, and connect to the Internet through that. The technology’s matured to the point that it’s an entirely viable option now.
Personally, I was paying £32/mo for my broadband and £23 for my mobile, both of which gave me around 80mbps bandwidth at home. I’ve had to upgrade my mobile contract to account for the extra data I use which added £5 to that bill, but it still amounts to a £27/mo saving. Bonus feature? I can sit in the park with my laptop and get up to 300mbps, nevermind the shitey 80mbps my old copper wires were peaking at.
Still waiting for fibre…
Hardly surprising as they are all pushing annual April price rises of inflation + 3.9%.
It’s not a windfall, it’s not a fucking accident, it’s calculated and exploiting and already shit situation for profit.
I live fairly rural and there’s a company called WeFibre that are putting in ultrafast fibre – can anyone recommend them? Fuck BT
It’s funny how profits are going up and the only other thing going up is prices.
Almost as if the two are linked…
I’m still rocking Zens price for life guarantee. I don’t use it heavily so its enough for me.
strange, my contract just ran out with EE and they offered me the exact same deal I had (same speed) for £10 less than I was paying.
was a bit like wtf something is getting cheaper, now I am even more wtf! lol
not complaining hummmmmm
I was thinking about just using my phone data as my home internet in my new house but signal in my new area sucks.
Like Three 100gb/month is only £12 which I bet would be enough for lots of people. Or unlimited is £16/month. So if you live in an area where you get 40mbps+ speeds on Three then thats your mobile and home internet for £16/month.
Only issue is having to tether, but it’s just 1 button on your phone.
I’m tired of all these companies raising prices with inflation when their costs don’t actually go up in inflation, especially if they’re not giving pay rises in line with inflation. Some mobile phone companies have kept cheap though. Like my O2 30gb/month sim is only £8/month and that’s not a limited time price where it suddenly doubles like with Sky TV or something, it’ll always be £8 pretty much.
My Existing provider has a firm CPI +3.9% and i wasn’t happy about contracting with that in it.
The only FTTP provider I can choose has the following – This feels worse – not knowing.
“We may adjust the amount you pay per month for your plan according
to the Consumer Price Index (CPI)+3.9%. This reflects the increase in
the costs to run and invest in the network and service that we provide.
The Consumer Pricing Index rate is announced in January each year and we
will reserve the right to adjust your payments by this amount
(CPI+3.9%) from 01 April of the same year.”
​
Who doesnt have CPI +xx% in their T7C’s now?
Ill just cancel eventually and use my mobile plan.
if they raise your costs mid contract you can cancel.
hotspot wireless broadband service is getting competitive with hardline, and many people are wasting most of their bandwidth. for 1080p you can stream with no issues on 8mb per device, so do you really need to haver the bandwidth to stream 8 different hdtv outputs? especially if its just going to a tablet.
check the cheapest you can get with no usage cap.
One of my favourite things living in the UK as a Canadian is the low cost of mobile and internet services. In Canada we have an essentially an ogliopoly, where paying £80+ a month for mobile and a tiny fraction of the data and services is common.
Don’t become like us.
Yeah good idea print more cash totally doesnt cause inflation
24 month contracts are a scam now. Many of them are sneak a 3.9% + CPI / year clause in. Meaning your “fixed price” contract could increase from anywhere between 5% to 15% every April. By the time you finish your contract you could be ~30% more / month.
Take shorter contracts and shop around once it expires.
Meanwhile some parts of Yorkshire still have only 1 monopoly Kingston Communications, don’t think there’s even much choice in not accepting a bill hike, it’s happened a few times and people just accept or face not having broadband.
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Oh hey look at that more profiteering.
How surprising
Great News!
This will allow Them to pay their workers more, roll out faster and provided even more subsidised broad band for the less well off!
Won’t it?
I haggle aggressively and almost always cancel and wait for the call back.
VM 100 Mb
£21 a month with 02 discount used for money off rather than free speed boost.
It would be double that if I did nothing.
While residential energy prices are capped, buisness rates aren’t. Got to imagine the energy companies are squeezing businesses where possible and Open Reach & VM will have massive energy costs to run their networks. Measuring it against inflation alone wouldn’t seem to tell the while story for their increased costs.
Also got to worry about what that means for the smaller hyperfast networks that have been popping up. They’ll be screwed more by energy companies which may result in a bunch going under and further setting back UK Internet speeds.
Guess the company CEOs need their 3rd yacht right this minute. Seriously though this is disgusting considering how much people are already struggling atm :<.
We’re constantly rich-splained that we all have to be poor or there would be a “wage price spiral”.
Not a fucking whisper of the Profit Price Spiral. Loads of this current inflation problem is simply profiteering.
I saw sky offering sign up before the end of the month for 18 months they guarantee no price rises during the contract.
Gracious of them as it means they skip next years increase but apply the one due just after that contract ends if you do nothing then.
Still the way things are going might help prevent it going up by a quarter next April.
I shop around every time for the best deal. Just changed last month, and in fairness, the new contract is £10 a month cheaper and twice as fast. If I hadn’t cocked up, I’d have had £50 cashback through Quidco too.
It’s worth a reminder that if you’ve got a decent 4g/5g signal, you might not need a landline broadband connection at all. Just enable hot-spot on your mobile, and connect to the Internet through that. The technology’s matured to the point that it’s an entirely viable option now.
Personally, I was paying £32/mo for my broadband and £23 for my mobile, both of which gave me around 80mbps bandwidth at home. I’ve had to upgrade my mobile contract to account for the extra data I use which added £5 to that bill, but it still amounts to a £27/mo saving. Bonus feature? I can sit in the park with my laptop and get up to 300mbps, nevermind the shitey 80mbps my old copper wires were peaking at.
Still waiting for fibre…
Hardly surprising as they are all pushing annual April price rises of inflation + 3.9%.
It’s not a windfall, it’s not a fucking accident, it’s calculated and exploiting and already shit situation for profit.
I live fairly rural and there’s a company called WeFibre that are putting in ultrafast fibre – can anyone recommend them? Fuck BT
It’s funny how profits are going up and the only other thing going up is prices.
Almost as if the two are linked…
I’m still rocking Zens price for life guarantee. I don’t use it heavily so its enough for me.
strange, my contract just ran out with EE and they offered me the exact same deal I had (same speed) for £10 less than I was paying.
was a bit like wtf something is getting cheaper, now I am even more wtf! lol
not complaining hummmmmm
I was thinking about just using my phone data as my home internet in my new house but signal in my new area sucks.
Like Three 100gb/month is only £12 which I bet would be enough for lots of people. Or unlimited is £16/month. So if you live in an area where you get 40mbps+ speeds on Three then thats your mobile and home internet for £16/month.
Only issue is having to tether, but it’s just 1 button on your phone.
I’m tired of all these companies raising prices with inflation when their costs don’t actually go up in inflation, especially if they’re not giving pay rises in line with inflation. Some mobile phone companies have kept cheap though. Like my O2 30gb/month sim is only £8/month and that’s not a limited time price where it suddenly doubles like with Sky TV or something, it’ll always be £8 pretty much.
My Existing provider has a firm CPI +3.9% and i wasn’t happy about contracting with that in it.
The only FTTP provider I can choose has the following – This feels worse – not knowing.
“We may adjust the amount you pay per month for your plan according
to the Consumer Price Index (CPI)+3.9%. This reflects the increase in
the costs to run and invest in the network and service that we provide.
The Consumer Pricing Index rate is announced in January each year and we
will reserve the right to adjust your payments by this amount
(CPI+3.9%) from 01 April of the same year.”
​
Who doesnt have CPI +xx% in their T7C’s now?
Ill just cancel eventually and use my mobile plan.
if they raise your costs mid contract you can cancel.
hotspot wireless broadband service is getting competitive with hardline, and many people are wasting most of their bandwidth. for 1080p you can stream with no issues on 8mb per device, so do you really need to haver the bandwidth to stream 8 different hdtv outputs? especially if its just going to a tablet.
check the cheapest you can get with no usage cap.
One of my favourite things living in the UK as a Canadian is the low cost of mobile and internet services. In Canada we have an essentially an ogliopoly, where paying £80+ a month for mobile and a tiny fraction of the data and services is common.
Don’t become like us.
Yeah good idea print more cash totally doesnt cause inflation
24 month contracts are a scam now. Many of them are sneak a 3.9% + CPI / year clause in. Meaning your “fixed price” contract could increase from anywhere between 5% to 15% every April. By the time you finish your contract you could be ~30% more / month.
Take shorter contracts and shop around once it expires.
Meanwhile some parts of Yorkshire still have only 1 monopoly Kingston Communications, don’t think there’s even much choice in not accepting a bill hike, it’s happened a few times and people just accept or face not having broadband.