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The EE website now shows no March 2025 price increase for broadband. The monthly starting prices appear not to have changed.
The monthly cost of £40.99/month for 900Mbps looks to be very competitive and it undercuts Zen and IDNet by £10/month and Aquiss and others by £15/month.
Edited by GoWest (Sat 01-Mar-25 08:34:57)
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Orders from 1st March will not incur any annual price increase this year & so not until 31st March 2026.
1999: Freeserve 48K Dial-Up => 2005: Wanadoo 1 Meg BB => 2007: Orange 2 Meg BB => 2008: Orange 8 Meg LLU => 2010: Orange 16 Meg LLU => 2011: Orange 20 Meg WBC => 2020: EE 40 Meg FTTC => 2022: EE 73 Meg FTTC (no landline no.)
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Orders from 1st March will not incur any annual price increase this year & so not until 31st March 2026.
Similar with TT, ordered in February for start in March, and no increase until 2026, it did take some persuading until the sales team "looked it up"!
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The monthly starting prices appear not to have changed.
Correct: the April price rises only apply to existing customers in-contract. New customers continue to get the same starting price.
The fact that they rise the prices for existing customers, but not new ones, shows the fallacy of their claims that they have to rise prices to keep track with inflation. It's simply a way of hiding the true cost over a 24-month contract.
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@candlerb: New custs still have an annual price rise but it is now fixed in terms of £s & p's. It's just that those joining now won't get it until April 2026.
1999: Freeserve 48K Dial-Up => 2005: Wanadoo 1 Meg BB => 2007: Orange 2 Meg BB => 2008: Orange 8 Meg LLU => 2010: Orange 16 Meg LLU => 2011: Orange 20 Meg WBC => 2020: EE 40 Meg FTTC => 2022: EE 73 Meg FTTC (no landline no.)
Edited by XRaySpeX (Tue 04-Mar-25 23:19:29)
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@candlerb: New custs still have an annual price rise but it is now fixed in terms of £s & p's. It's just that those joining now won't get it until April 2026.
Sure.
But say customers join today at £41 per month. From next April (2026) this goes up to £44 per month. Meanwhile, new customers next April will most likely start new contracts at £41 per month - or less.
If the base price went up to £44 for everyone, new customers and in-contract customers, that would be fine. But it doesn't. It's nothing more than a gimmick to hide the true cost, when comparing deals between providers.
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But say customers join today at £41 per month. From next April (2026) this goes up to £44 per month. Meanwhile, new customers next April will most likely start new contracts at £41 per month - or less.
If the base price went up to £44 for everyone, new customers and in-contract customers, that would be fine. But it doesn't. It's nothing more than a gimmick to hide the true cost, when comparing deals between providers. Who can say? We can't predict how EE will price for new custs in the coming year. It might even go down.
1999: Freeserve 48K Dial-Up => 2005: Wanadoo 1 Meg BB => 2007: Orange 2 Meg BB => 2008: Orange 8 Meg LLU => 2010: Orange 16 Meg LLU => 2011: Orange 20 Meg WBC => 2020: EE 40 Meg FTTC => 2022: EE 73 Meg FTTC (no landline no.)
Edited by XRaySpeX (Sun 09-Mar-25 20:55:14)
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I moved at end of contract from BT to EE (900 essential) and at the same time ceased the landline. I was quoted a £5 discount so I pay £34.99 a month with the first increase not until March 2026.
I'm not special so I expect everyone will get that price.
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The isps got a slating because they were advertising 2 year deals in February that went up in march so to rectify this they have put off the increase in the first few months
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Have they?
FWiW, when EE made the announcement about no March 25 increase, it kept the cost of its 900Mbps service at £41.99 per calendar month. It rose a few day later (I think on the 7th March) to £44.99 per calendar month.
All ISPs can change their offers at will.
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