Another round of price rices for 2018 starts here!
Devon Live, The Sun, The Register wrote:BT Sport are to hike the cost its channels up by 33% for some customers – 15 times the rate of UK annual wage growth.
Currently, BT Broadband customers pay £7.50 a month for BT Sport channels, but this will jump to £10 in January 2018 – a 33% rise.
For Sky customers who have BT Sport without BT Broadband, charges will jump from £22.99 to £25.99 per month – a 13% rise. Both figures dwarf the 2.2% growth in weekly earnings seen by the average UK worker in the last year.
The latest price increases come just nine months after previous hikes from the TV and internet provider, in April this year. They’re also the third round of price increases BT has made in 18 months.
The last broadband price rise was just seven months ago, on 2 April. The previous one was in July 2016, making the January 2018 hike the third.
In Freesat’s study of 2,000 pay TV customers, while a third (36 per cent) warned that they would have to quit their contract if prices keep rising at the current rate, almost half (45 per cent) said they feel taken advantage of by constant hikes.
A further 34 per cent said they were confused as to why prices go up so regularly, while 35% said they feel powerless to argue.
In the Freesat study, 60 per cent of people with a sports channel subscription feel their service is overpriced, while one in four (27 per cent) said they don’t make full use of their service.
Previous research from Freesat also found that the majority of popular sporting events are available on free channels.
BT is in the process of writing to customers about the bill changes, which take affect from January 7.
Customers can expect to see their bills rise depending on the contract they have with BT, for example:
- Standard broadband customers will pay £24 extra per year
- Fibre broadband customers (Infinity 1) will pay £30 extra per year
BT is also putting up the cost of its unlimited anytime call packages.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/0 ... ces_again/Imagine paying £26 for BT Sport and another £28 for Sky Sports every month.
BT is also hiking the cost of calls and call features from 7 January:
Unlimited anytime landline calls package – rising from £8.99/mth to £9.50/mth.
Unlimited evening and weekend calls package – rising from £3.80/mth to £4/mth.
Landline call costs – calls to other landlines (including 0870 and 0845 numbers) will increase from 12p/min to 13p/min. The call set-up fee is rising from 21p/call to 22p/call.
Mobile call costs – calls to mobiles will increase from 16p/min to 17p/min. If you have anytime calls they'll increase from 8p/min to 8.5p/min.
1571 – will increase from £2.50/mth to £3/mth.
Paper bill charge – will increase from £2/mth to £2.50/mth.
If you've one calling feature, your price will rise from £4.50/mth to £5/mth.
If you've two to four calling features, your price will rise from £8.75/mth to £9.25/mth.
If you've five or more calling features, your price will rise from £11.75/mth to £12.25/mth.
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