Price Rises From Virgin Media And Ee.

[sandyRoe]

Two letters this morning, the first from Virgin Media, telling me bills will rise by 8.8% in April.  EE aren't quite as bad, their prices will only rise by £1.24.

Virgin Media say their rise is the rate of inflation plus 3.9%.  

I can understand the rise to cover inflation but why the extra 3.9%?

[Old_Geezer]

Greed ?

 

Or maybe to compensate for leaving customers fed up with the rules and lack of decent customer service.

[youngmafbog]

Wasnt it added to help pay for the network extensions so all could have broadband?

Still very unwelcome though.  VM is getting rediculously expensive but I am stuck with it as a) it is reliable b) I need close to 100% uptime as I WFH and dont get paid if I dont work.

[theshedman]

We just had our increase from BT and it's going up by £4.73 a month from April.  It's mid contract so nothing we can do about it.

[Barmaid]

We had notification from Sky that ours was going up again.  After an hour on the phone it's now reduced by 53 quid a month!!

[Buenchico]

As I read it, Virgin Media justify the 3.9% bit along the lines of "we’re seeing growing demand for data, so we need to invest in our networks to keep up with customer demand":
https://www.virginmedia.com/help/prices