Mobile, broadband, and pay TV companies will no longer be allowed to give surprise price rises in the middle of a customer's contract as a regulator ban comes into effect. In new deals from Friday, before somebody agrees to a contract, providers must tell them "in pounds and pence" about any price rises, as well as when they will occur.

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The Scotsman

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Bills: major change to household bills like phone and broadband under new Ofcom rules - what they mean for you

It comes after customers complained of not being able to plan for price rises.

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Banned: Surprise mobile mid-contract price rises

Under the previous rules, broadband and mobile companies are allowed to increase prices mid-contract in line with inflation from March and April, plus up to 3.9% extra on top of this

Daily Mirror

Reach plc

London

Greater London

England

Major change affecting anyone who pays broadband and mobile bill kicks in today

Big changes are coming into force from today that should end the yearly bill shock faced by UK homes.

Daily Express

New BT, Sky and Virgin Media price 'rules' start today and it will affect you

Millions of consumers will be protected from “nasty surprises” from Friday as new rules take effect that mean telecoms firms must tell people upfront – in “pounds and pence”.

Birmingham Mail

Birmingham

West Midlands

New law for BT, Vodafone, Virgin Media O2, Three, and EE customers starts today

The changes should mean no more guessing when it comes to your bills 📊

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Sussex Express

Lewes

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Telecoms providers must set out upfront price rises that will apply to customer contracts to protect consumers from uncertain and volatile inflation. From today, Ofcom will require any price rises linked to future inflation to be clearly written into a customer’s contract at the point of sale. Many leading phone, TV and broadband firms already include terms on inflation-linked price rises, but the actual cost to consumers has remained obscure. C…

City AM

Ofcom cracks down on inflation-linked price hikes

Inflation has stayed well above the Bank of England’s 2 per cent target yet again in a reading published this week, in bad news for savers.The consumer prices index (CPI) measure stood at 2.5 per cent when Wednesday’s data was published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).Experts believe that inflation will rise even further in the coming months, with Pantheon Macroeconomics believing that it is heading to 3.2 per cent in April.#color-co…

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Kettering

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A Guardian examination in 2014 subjected ‘greedflation’ within the telecommunications market, with quite a few people coping with mid-contract enter month-to-month repayments of roughly 17.3%Photograph: Yui Mok/ announced the rule changes last July. Source link The post Ofcom applies restriction on ‘nasty surprise’ mid-contract telecommunications value will increase appeared first on India Daily Mail.

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Ofcom applies restriction on ‘nasty surprise’ mid-contract telecommunications value will increase

Banned: Surprise mobile mid-contract price rises

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