Thousands of EE customers to be hit with 2.4% price hike – adding £5.40 a year to bills. *

ChrisK....._3

The Sun: Thousands of EE customers to be hit with 2.4% price hike – adding £5.40 a year to bills.

*The reason for the difference is that new rules were introduced by mobile regulator Ofcom on January 23 2014, which allow providers to up prices in line with inflation for new and upgrading users once a year – as long as they make it clear before people sign up.*

This is absolute rubbish as I've voiced many many times. The ruling IN FACT allows media providers to sign people up to 10000 year agreements and still increase prices yet STILL bind the user to those agreements, meaning you could have to pay an early termination fee if you don't pay the mid-contact inflated prices. Which is why if I RULED THE WORLD media companies would not be allowed to enter into agreements they could not perform like any other organisation

https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/8935365/ee-customers-to-be-hit-with-price-hike/

always_sunny

ChrisK..... wrote: »

The Sun: Thousands of EE customers to be hit with 2.4% price hike – adding £5.40 a year to bills.

*The reason for the difference is that new rules were introduced by mobile regulator Ofcom on January 23 2014, which allow providers to up prices in line with inflation for new and upgrading users once a year – as long as they make it clear before people sign up.*

This is absolute rubbish as I've voiced many many times. The ruling IN FACT allows media providers to sign people up to 10000 year agreements and still increase prices yet STILL bind the user to those agreements, meaning you could have to pay an early termination fee if you don't pay the mid-contact inflated prices. Which is why if I RULED THE WORLD media companies would not be allowed to enter into agreements they could not perform like any other organisation

https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/8935365/ee-customers-to-be-hit-with-price-hike/

Not just EE, is that 45p a month?
It's called inflation and beside EE = BT

[Deleted User]

My bill has gone up by 37p per month which is barely over a penny a day, not too bad I think as I have unlimited texts and calls and 6GB of internet all for £10.38 per month a bargain I think

boatman

The rules allow a RPI or CPI increase. What I don't like is their seeming ability to change the contract, e.g. raise the price per minute out of bundle prices as well.


To my mind, if they have used their agreed RPI/CPI increase they should not also be allowed to increase/change any part of that contract without the user being able to leave if they not agree to the new prices.It would appear they have their cake and eat it...
Its wrong..

Matty36

Little over 10p a week is hardly a deal breaker. Its not like energy companies pounding us with 10% increases every few months lol

mobilejunkie

Matty36 wrote: »

Little over 10p a week is hardly a deal breaker. Its not like energy companies pounding us with 10% increases every few months lol

Except that energy companies can't increase the tariff by anything whilst on a fixed term.

StarSky

Mobile goes up every year, oyster does too..

mobilejunkie

StarSky wrote: »

Mobile goes up every year, oyster does too..

Oyster isn't a fixed term contract; and it isn't Oyster that goes up - it's just a wallet.

Tea_spiller

Increase isn't too drastic, I'm on an old sim only deal @ just under £8pm with bt sports & unl mins/4gb data.
I won't be changing package as it proper value.

ChrisK....._3

You wouldn't have the same opinion if you got to Tesco checkout and all your items were a few pence more than they told you they would be, and the law would fine them £30,000 because it's against the law to breech an agreement and quite simply media companies should be forced to honour their AGREEments like every other person and organisation

Tea_spiller wrote: »

Increase isn't too drastic, I'm on an old sim only deal @ just under £8pm with bt sports & unl mins/4gb data.
I won't be changing package as it proper value.

mobilejunkie

ChrisK..... wrote: »

You wouldn't have the same opinion if you got to Tesco checkout and all your items were a few pence more than they told you they would be, and the law would fine them £30,000 because it's against the law to breech an agreement and quite simply media companies should be forced to honour their AGREEments like every other person and organisation

The law doesn't fine anyone. It's about the contract and you are completely wrong. The AGREEment specifies increases in the T&C - perhaps you prefer to ignore those.