{"id":32833,"date":"2022-11-08T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=32833"},"modified":"2022-11-07T16:13:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T16:13:27","slug":"consumers-want-end-to-mid-contract-broadband-and-mobile-price-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/11\/consumers-want-end-to-mid-contract-broadband-and-mobile-price-hikes.html","title":{"rendered":"Consumers Want End to Mid-Contract Broadband and Mobile Price Hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new Opinium survey of 2,000 UK adults, which was commissioned by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uswitch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Uswitch<\/a> during October 2022, has unsurprisingly found that 81% of respondents think mid-contract price increases by broadband ISPs and mobile operators are &#8220;<em>unfair<\/em>&#8221; and 80% want more providers to offer fixed price contracts.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The UK communications regular, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a>, recently warned that providers should now &#8220;<em>consider whether large price rises can be justified at time of exceptional financial hardship<\/em>&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/09\/ofcom-tells-broadband-isps-to-halt-big-price-hikes-and-offer-social-tariffs.html\">here<\/a>), although this appears to have had little impact upon the many providers that continue to implement inflation busting hikes (e.g. CPI + 3.9%). But in fairness, some of those same providers have introduced cheaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/08\/a-quick-guide-to-uk-social-tariffs-getting-broadband-for-15.html\"><strong>Social Tariffs<\/strong><\/a> to those most in need.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the new survey found that 27% of consumers would be stressed if their monthly bill increased by \u00a35, while 41% believe that mid-contract price rises should be stopped entirely and 25% are already planning for their next broadband deal to be a package that does not apply any annual price hikes (this rules out almost all of the largest players).<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the survey found that households supplied by broadband ISP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/plusnetuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Plusnet<\/a> were most likely to view price rises negatively, although they didn&#8217;t provide any comparable data for the other providers. Overall, 89% of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/plusnetuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Plusnet<\/a>&#8217;s customers surveyed were said to view mid-contract hikes as either &#8220;<em>not very fair<\/em>&#8221; or &#8220;<em>completely unfair<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>The real acid test of surveys like this is often whether masses of consumers suddenly move to adopt packages that do not apply mid-contract hikes. But in reality, that often doesn&#8217;t happen, as most of the major ISPs now follow the same sort of approach (except <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/bskyb\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Sky Broadband<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a> etc.). Meanwhile, smaller providers, which tend to deliver better pricing stability, are often overlooked due to a lack of consumer familiarity and in other cases packages from alternative networks may not even be available where you live.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, it doesn\u2019t help that details about mid-contract hikes are often consigned to the small print, where they can easily be missed during sign-up. However, the Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP and BCAP) &#8211; sister bodies to the <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-125 shortlink-chref\" title=\"advertising standards authority\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/asa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.asa.org.uk\">Advertising Standards Authority<\/a> (ASA) &#8211; did recently launch a consultation on new guidance that could require information about mid-contract prices hikes to be more prominently stated in ads (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/09\/adverts-watchdog-tackles-uk-mid-contract-telecoms-price-hikes.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Opinium survey of 2,000 UK adults, which was commissioned by Uswitch during October 2022, has unsurprisingly found that 81% of respondents think mid-contract price increases by broadband ISPs and mobile operators are &#8220;unfair&#8221; and 80% want more providers to offer fixed price contracts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[99,36,34],"class_list":["post-32833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-asa","tag-ofcom-regulation","tag-statistics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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