Has your broadband bill defied inflation? 📈

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Have you seen research in the news recently, that identifies broadband as the only utility bill not to increase in the past decade?

Everything else seems to be going up in price - house prices still rising at 1.6% according to the Nationwide, and shop prices at a 2 year high according to the British Retail Consortium.

:frog: You’re probably aware of the fury around Freddo prices - 40% higher in a decade.

:postbox: And if you’re more likely to email than snail mail, it’s a good move because 1st class stamp prices are 181% higher than in 2016.

:wireless: Yet, the average cost of a new broadband subscription is 10% cheaper than it was in 2016.

You can see an interactive price chart on this research by the in-house geniuses at Broadband Genie.

Have you seen this effect in your own broadband bills? Have you shopped around to get a better deal - or has this made you think about it?

  • Yes, my broadband costs less than a decade ago
  • Not sure
  • I wasn’t paying the bills 10 years ago
  • No, mine has risen
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That’s really interesting research. You kind of know that some things have skyrockted in price - I was RAGING about stamps and butter the other day - but it’s interesting to know that broadband bucks the trend.

Racking my brain to think of anything else that’s cheaper or has roughly stayed the same price for the past 5-10 years. TVs? Bananas?

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You really shouldn’t have gone there, if any broadband company realises they haven’t increased their charges, they will, for sure.

Let’s face it, in Britain, we’re ripped-off for every other essential utility.

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Vodaphone shops have been trained to use the word “inflation” to mean “annual price rise on April 1st” “Because We Say So”. On a £21/month contract taken out last week, that would be £3.50 which they call “Inflation”, and that is > 16%

On a 24 month contract paying ÂŁ30 per month until the end of the contract about now, that immediately goes to ÂŁ35 (>16%) with another price rise next April which is possibly ÂŁ6, so from this April to next April those price rises would be ÂŁ41/30 per month; >36%

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Had BT fibre to the home since 2019. 900Mbs down. I was paying ÂŁ46.99/m. Excellent product and stable. But the costs crept up. So I searched and found the same performance with Vodafone for ÂŁ28/m. There was a ÂŁ35 option with a WiFi 7 router. I went to change to VF, but received an email & a text. So I called. And received a call back. They wanted to retain me. And for ÂŁ26.99/m. Same service. Sorry VF, I accepted to avoid all the router & password changes. A 42.6% reduction. Will go up ÂŁ4 in April 27 & 28. But great value. Thank you BT

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