broadband /phone price increase

I have just received my love letter to say my sky broadband is going up from the 1st April I get a discount on my package but the rise is taken on what my package full price was then added on to my discount price . Sky have raised their prices by 6.7% if I had this added to what I pay then it would of gone up by £1.80 but they have based it on the full price and raised my price by £3.50 It is wrong that you take a contract out for a certain amount per month over a fixed time period but then get a rise in price every April

Same as my , so called fixed price phone package, I understood it was fixed at £9 for 2 years but, It goes up 70p inline with inflation rates as is stated in the T&C's...

The ISP's, the Broadband suppliers, whatever you call them nowadays, have got yoo by the balls, and they are acting together as a Cartel (which is illegal) to push up the price of suppling internet services

So why that now ?

Well,,, society and the use of technology, means that most people now need the internet to conduct their lives in one way or another, and that need for access to the internet is going to become much more evident when they turn of the terrestrial TV transmitters in as early as 2030, but more likely to be 2034, because they are going to shift terrestrial television supply from places like the transmitter on Winter Hill, to the internet instead, and you have probably not heard of a thing called 'Freely' which has yet to launch, but it will takeover from 'Freeview' in supplying the mainstream TV channels BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and 5 plus other free to air TV channels.

TV Transmitter Turn Off

Freely Explained

It means that with 'Freely' you will not need to login to a TV streaming service, such as the BBC iPlayer, ITVx etc, to watch TV over the internet, it will be just like plugging in a TV aerial and watching TV, except that it will be coming over your internet supply.

There are advantages to that, in that 4K TV can only be shown over an internet connection, and that will eventually become 8K so it's not a bad thing, but it does mean that ISP's like BT, Virgin, TalkTalk, Sky etc, are going to become much more wealthy and powerful, and then you have got the likes of BT the biggest terrestrial internet supplier, also becoming the largest mobile internet supplier, because BT own's EE, that sort of rhymes doesn't it, but they are starting to attain a monopoly in the supply of internet services, and as the internet supply markets shrink, and there is less competition, the prices will start to go up, hence they have yoo by the short and curlies

Back to the future could be the way forward.

In all honesty the internet, and mobile phones have ruined a lot of things between them.
Three prime examples, education, employment and social interacting.

the internet and mobile phone service in the uk is a rip off and need to be looked at by the government watch dog there is no reason why???

average price in the uk USD $0.62 per GB
Israel ($0.02 per GB) WHY?????

rip-off britian , that,s why .

The UK is placed as the 58th cheapest out of 237 countries.
Other positions,

Germany 163 @ 2.14 $ per GB, Belgium 166 @ 2.23, Japan 201 @ 3.48, Norway, 205 @ 4.07, Switzerland 226 @ 7.29, USA 219 @ 6.00.

On a global basis good old Blighty isn’t doing badly.

that doesnt help us any does it ? .

I am on a fast as it can be, fixed term 18 month contract, which ends later on this year with TalkALot, it didn't go up for some reason last year, and it has been £26.00 a month, but from the first of April it is rising by 3.4%, which they say will mean that I will be paying an extra £2.00 a month

gaffer i am happy that your happy!!!!!! you want to hear some thing funny??? the biggest shareholder at BT is French/ Israeli Patrick Drahi and he only charges us in israel ($0.02 per GB And the cherry on the cake he gave my wife a donation last year of 25 million better then paying it in tax in the uk!!

Peter Israel

"the internet and mobile phone service in the uk is a rip off"

So go on then, tell us how much better the internet access and price is in Israel

the rise with virgin is 8.8 % rise .

Virgin Media have now adopted a policy of only putting up their prices on a annual basis at the end of each financial year based on the retail price index (rpi) of February plus 3.9% administration fee.

Therefore their increase for the next twelve months is made up of 4.9% of the rpi for February plus the 3.9% administration fee making the total of 8.8%

The next price rise will be at the end of the next financial year in 2025 whereas other companies will more than likely still carry on with old system of putting up price inceases when they feel like it during the course of a year.

You can always change your provider if you are not happy with any price increase or indeed service visits, but after the bad experiences my Wife and I had with both BT and SKY, we will stick with Virgin Media, especially when we can contact them by 150 which was not been the case when we tried to contact BT and SKY!

notice that all the others have a pensioner discount unlike virgin who,s the only one NOT to adopt this policy .

Virgin

none of which we can claim .