Mid contract price rises

Hopefully it is within the forum rules to highlight this "Which?" campaign against mid-contract prices rise.
I really don't like being tied into a 24 month contract with prices rises at CPI+3.9%, seems like an exploitation of a large monopoly company to me (I know there are choices and I will take advantage of those at the end of my current contract.)
Anyway "Which?" are looking for people to support/sign up to there campaign - if you're interested have a look here: Sign Which Petition

Done, not that it affects me at the moment. I don't like the long contracts and certainly don't like the price rises in them

I've signed. In a way I can understand CPI rises (although not within a contract period with no bail-out) but I don't understand the need for the +3.9% bit at all. Surely a fixed price for a fixed term is better for everyone.

Signed and Shared!

Done ... and I most certainly have been seeing that I've just been screwed senseless with undocumented excessive out-of-contract prices for a few months and have now had to contract again for 2 years with 2 mid-contract CPI+ price increases to look forward to.

Thank you Mr.Plusnet, [bends over in readiness], can I have another

The industry move from 12 to 24 months seems to have been done for zero real benefit to the consumer.

If you want me to sign for 24 months then give me a price that will last for that period.

Signed.

To say that these lengthy CPI+ style contracts are very one-sided in almost all respects would be a significant understatement.

Not sure how long this campaign has actually been running but I'm slightly surprised that there aren't considerably more 'signatures' despite allowing for the usual apathy. Contractual CPI+ increases and massively unrealistic out-of-contract pricing just seems to be the go-to ripoff now with so many other companies jumping on what appears to have been the original BT bandwagon.

I believe the campaign was started on 6th Oct, so about a week to get around 50,000 "signatures" - not sure how well advertised it has been - I suspect it is mainly Which? subscribers that would have been notified.

I think 24 month contracts are generally not user friendly (but you makes your own choice) but tieing in Inflation + 4% each April is really just exploiting the virtual monopoly the big Telcos have... well that's my opinion anyway.

And let us not get started on those that use RPI instead of CPI.

Even the ONS & UK Statistics Authority recognise it as a bad measure of inflation - https://www.ons.gov.uk/news/statementsandletters/uks... but they are legally bound to publish it

In reply to a post by Bam16:

I believe the campaign was started on 6th Oct, so about a week to get around 50,000 "signatures" - not sure how well advertised it has been - I suspect it is mainly Which? subscribers that would have been notified.

If this petition had been on the UK Parliament website like a lot of other campaigns I would have signed it in a flash but as its on the 'Which?' website where they love to harvest your data I won't be signing it although I 100% agree with it.

I think a lot of other people won't sign for the same reason.

Edited by PCJM40 (Fri 13-Oct-23 10:34:14)