I haven't really seen this phenomenon myself. My phone and broadband have been cheaper, or faster for the same price, or at least static price+speed every year for the entire time mentioned in this graph. One issue is that home fibre connections are still not widespread and some people are trapped in single provider areas (fuck you Virgin).
WTF? How is it possible for prices for services to go up like that in the UK?
Is there no competition?
I'm a very light user of mobile internet, so what i pay now is laughably cheap. 3€ per month for everything, data, phoning and SMS/MMS.
That said, most my Data use is over WiFi.
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Sibbo@sopuli.xyz · 77 pts · 69d
This is not about mobile phones, but about broadband and mobile bills, according to your source:
cRazi_man@europe.pub · 9 pts · 69d
I haven't really seen this phenomenon myself. My phone and broadband have been cheaper, or faster for the same price, or at least static price+speed every year for the entire time mentioned in this graph. One issue is that home fibre connections are still not widespread and some people are trapped in single provider areas (fuck you Virgin).
davidagain@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 69d
Ah, the sunlit uplands of Brexit.
Lots of providers started introducing a CPI+3% or CPI+5% style annual mid-contract rise every April.
plyth@feddit.org · 28 pts · 69d
Phone prices or phone service prices?
Piatro@programming.dev · 28 pts · 69d
Subheading makes it clearer that it is talking about the services rather than the phones
jenesaisquoi@feddit.org · 26 pts · 67d
My tiny EU brain simply cannot comprehend the level of independence and control that has been taken back
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 69d
WTF? How is it possible for prices for services to go up like that in the UK?
Is there no competition?
I'm a very light user of mobile internet, so what i pay now is laughably cheap. 3€ per month for everything, data, phoning and SMS/MMS.
That said, most my Data use is over WiFi.
TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id · 16 pts · 68d
Half of the population are turnip brained racists that got conned into voting against their best interests to leave the EU.
This sort of shit is the result.
Ascendor@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 67d
I wonder, when Brexit was again... A, 2020, got it. You got what you voted for, congratulations.
Tarambor@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 69d
The mobile phone network I use, Smarty, hasn't raised it's prices for at least the 4 years I've been with them.
Scrollone@feddit.it · 4 pts · 67d
*Laughs in my Italian provider (Iliad) giving me 30 GB for 5,99 € per month*
RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 67d
250 GB / 9,99€ / month
Amateurs.
PeroBasta@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 67d
I would go for 1€ 5GB if I could.
Never reached 10GB mark on my mobile plan
For me 5tb at 7€ would be a downgrade
Matombo@feddit.org · 2 pts · 67d
Why in april?
chmod755@feddit.org · 1 pts · 69d
My contract: €15 per month 150 GB per month (includes 22 GB in the EU and UK)
Squizzy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 67d
Unlimited 5G for 15 a month. Unlinited 500gb fibre for 30 a month.
chmod755@feddit.org · 1 pts · 67d
Wow, that's cheap. Where do you live?
Squizzy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 67d
Ireland. These are a new operator offering prices for life if you switch.
It can go up a fair bit depending on operator but for te most part fibre is available and cheap for homes and same for 5g for mobiles.
fyffes@feddit.org · 1 pts · 67d
My (Swiss) contract: 5G unlimited, 3GB EU + US roaming, CHF 16 (~18 €) per month