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MSE News: Post Office to raise home phone prices

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"Home phone customers face a line rental hike, though the Post Office is cutting the cost of calls to mobiles"
"Home phone customers face a line rental hike, though the Post Office is cutting the cost of calls to mobiles"
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This is not quite the true picture.
If you had a new line installed by them, and you wish to leave within 6 months, then they do charge a £15 "penalty".
And you don't need to give a month's notice! (No notice is needed if you transfer to another provider, and if you want to completely cancel your phone (ie have it disconnected), then they just need 15 days notice.
Sky did exactly the same thing when I switched to them from BT three years ago, 1 month after the switch their prices rose by £1 per month!
Expect them to add it retrospectively to the following quarter's bill (pro rata from the date of the increase)