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2025 Price Rises

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:20:21 GMT

It seems that the mooted new model of fixed price increases announced in January has been confirmed:

https://newsroom.bt.com/calling-out-a-new-pricing-structure-in-pounds-and-pence/

So £1.50 on a mobile contract, £2 on TV & £3 on broadband.

The thing that immediately strikes me is the the poorer the service you have, the more you will pay as a percentage of your bill. So taking today's new customer prices, someone on a 900Mb service will pay an extra 5%. Whereas someone on the lowest speed, likely because that's all they can get or can afford, will pay nearly 9%.

Re: 2025 Price Rises

conrad — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 19:16:40 GMT

It's a bit of incentivising upgrading - Get a more expensive plan but your price increase is still £3.

However it still penalises those on cheaper plans % wise especially if they can't upgrade.

Re: 2025 Price Rises

edbostan — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 20:34:48 GMT

Yes. So cheaper the deal the more in percentage terms is the increase. The answer is for Ofcom to ban mid-contract rises and for broadband companies to re-introduce 12-month deals.

Re: 2025 Price Rises

cooldude2024 — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 16:12:08 GMT

Someone renewing @ £25.99 per month ( Feasible being as someone posted on a forum the other week had been offered Fibre 1 renewal for under £25 per month) would face increase of 11.5%

Re later comment, BT as well as others do offer 12 month contracts

https://www.bt.com/broadband/twelve-month-deals

Re: 2025 Price Rises

WSH — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 17:15:54 GMT

If I were you I'd worry more about those figures being per month. That is £36 a year more for broadband, £24 for TV and £18 for mobile. Is it just me or is that outrageous?

Re: 2025 Price Rises

steveduggan1 — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 08:36:51 GMT

My current mobile contract is 7.03 per month for 1gb data, in 2025 it will increase by 1.50 that is a 21% rise, lycamobile that uses the same ee network is 4.00 per month with 5gb data and no price increases until 2026.

BT has competition it is a no-brainer for me, not in contract, so it's time to go.

Re: 2025 Price Rises

TimCurtis — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 08:43:12 GMT

If when you renewed last time your contract stated CPI + 3.9% then for the duration of that contract's agreement that's the rise you should experience.

I don't believe that BT have the right to varying the price rises stated in your contract.

Re: 2025 Price Rises

steveduggan1 — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 08:52:50 GMT

That was the March 2024 price rising structure, it all changes from March 2025, price increases will be 1.50 on mobile, 2.00 on TV, and 3.00 on broadband.

I'm fortunately not in contract so free to leave.

Re: 2025 Price Rises

Anonymous — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 09:46:53 GMT

@steveduggan1

Yet someone one an unlimited EE plan pays less than 5% extra. Chuck in a handset & the percentage plunges further.

Seems to me that with every new cunning plan that BT come up with, it's given zero thought as to its impact it will actually have.

Re: 2025 Price Rises

TimCurtis — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 10:29:42 GMT

@steveduggan1

But that CPI + 3.9% increase is in my contract until it expires in 2026 so be interesting to see my next March increase.

Re: 2025 Price Rises

edbostan — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 15:10:31 GMT

The new rises £3 per month for broadband works out more than the current formula of inflation plus 3.9% especially if you are on the cheaper packages. For example, on a £29.99 package that £3 rise equates to 10%. On the current formula of inflation (which is expected to fall to 2.5%) plus 3.9% the rise would be 6.4%. Once again the consumer has been hoodwinked.