I've just looked at the upcoming subscription costs in My Sky and it's showing £18.99 for line rental from March. This means it is going up by £1.59 or 9%. I've just agreed to another 12 month contract in exchange for a £7.50 discount on my Fibre broadband so I'm not very impressed.

Are you not impressed that you've been given a discount of £7.50?

In reply to a post by broadband66:

Are you not impressed that you've been given a discount of £7.50?

I'm sure no-one is impressed when a contract is broken.

Interestingly just below the 10% threshold that allows those in contract to get out FOC. Also the first time in a long while Sky line rental isn't cheaper than BT.

Never really understood why line rental keeps increasing when Openreach have been reducing what they charge telcos for line rental over the past few years.

In reply to a post by simon194:

Interestingly just below the 10% threshold that allows those in contract to get out FOC. Also the first time in a long while Sky line rental isn't cheaper than BT.

Never really understood why line rental keeps increasing when Openreach have been reducing what they charge telcos for line rental over the past few years.

Thank god for people like Pulse8 then - you take their FTTC at £38 a month you get line rental for £6 from what I understand

In reply to a post by simon194:

Interestingly just below the 10% threshold that allows those in contract to get out FOC.

Any increase in line rental or broadband price entitles the customer to leave the contract FOC under Ofcom rules. The 10% rule just applies to Sky TV.

What contract has been broken?

The contract in which they agree to supply you with broadband for a consideration and you agree to pay that amount.

But the majority of those contracts have clauses that say they can increase the prices by a particular amount.

Of clauses saying if we change the price we will give you 30 days notice of any increase and contact us in that time if you want releasing from the contract etc...

So if a provider does this to in contract customers they know very well they run a risk of increasing churn, though on broadband pricing because the changes are so widespread when you look around there are not the brilliant deals like there used to be.