BT are putting their prices up, AGAIN!
The new pricing sees basic broadband customers to see rise of £2 per month and all BT Infinity fibre customers to see a rise of £2.50 per month. Anytime calls are also up 49p.
Unjustified
According to broadband, TV and phone comparative website, cable.co.uk, the price rises universally exceed current CPI inflation (1.6 per cent) and in some cases many times over. Commenting on the price rises, Dan Howdle, consumer telecoms expert at cable.co.uk, said that the rise does therefore not reflect the rates of inflation!
“This affects every one of BT’s customers to a lesser or greater extent and is in my opinion completely unjustified,” says Dan. “These price hikes are absurd in contrast to current rates of inflation and, quite rightly, I would expect BT customers to be fuming.
Customers should remember that under current rules, in the event of a price hike, they have the right to switch out of their contract free of charge.“
As a BT customer you do get a vote in this – but it’s a vote with your feet.”
Improved Service
John Petter, chief executive of BT Consumer, responded: “Customers will get a better package and improved service from us this year in exchange for paying a little more. Millions will have the chance to upgrade to faster broadband and almost a million will be able to upgrade to enjoy unlimited usage for no extra cost. “As usual, we’ve taken care of low income customers by freezing the price of BT Basic and capping call costs.
We’ve also frozen line rental, which will particularly help customers who only take a traditional phone service from us.”
Other providers also price hiking BT point out that they are not the only providers passing costs on to customers. Sky put up TV prices by up to £72 a year in June 2016 and Virgin Media recently introduced their third price rise in the space of 12 months when they put up line rental by £1.01 in November. TalkTalk also raised prices from November, 2016, hiking broadband, phone and TV packages by up to an extra £33 a year.
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