{"id":7389,"date":"2022-10-15T14:38:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T12:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/15\/broadband-customers-face-up-to-14-hike-in-bills-warns-which\/"},"modified":"2022-10-15T14:38:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T12:38:02","slug":"broadband-customers-face-up-to-14-hike-in-bills-warns-which","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/15\/broadband-customers-face-up-to-14-hike-in-bills-warns-which\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadband customers face up to 14% hike in bills, warns Which?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BT customers face \u00a3113 rise as providers such as EE and TalkTalk prepare controversial \u2018inflation-plus\u2019 mechanism<\/p>\n<p>Broadband bills could surge by as much as \u00a3113 next year if a number of the UK\u2019s biggest telecoms firms push ahead with inflation-busting price increases next spring, says consumer watchdog Which?<\/p>\n<p>Many of the country\u2019s main internet providers \u2013 including the largest player BT, along with TalkTalk, EE, Plusnet and Vodafone \u2013 use a mechanism to increase the cost of bills annually by the rate of inflation as measured by the consumer prices index (CPI) in January, plus 3.9%.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2022\/oct\/15\/broadband-customers-face-up-to-14-hike-in-bills-warns-which\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3d3b924dc1dba233c832f0277edca8d710e17451\/0_116_3500_2101\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d53cfc07c8328b9ddb1a2ab44fb07de7\" title=\"Broadband customers face up to 14% hike in bills, warns Which?\" \/>BT customers face \u00a3113 rise as providers such as EE and TalkTalk prepare controversial \u2018inflation-plus\u2019 mechanism<br \/>\nBroadband bills could surge by as much as \u00a3113 next year if a number of the UK\u2019s biggest telecoms firms push ahead with inflation-busting price increases next spring, says consumer watchdog Which?<br \/>\nMany of the country\u2019s main internet providers \u2013 including the largest player BT, along with TalkTalk, EE, Plusnet and Vodafone \u2013 use a mechanism to increase the cost of bills annually by the rate of inflation as measured by the consumer prices index (CPI) in January, plus 3.9%. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BT customers face \u00a3113 rise as providers such as EE and TalkTalk prepare controversial \u2018inflation-plus\u2019 mechanism Broadband bills could surge by as much as \u00a3113 next year if a number of the UK\u2019s biggest telecoms firms push ahead with inflation-busting price increases next spring, says consumer watchdog Which? Many of the country\u2019s main internet providers &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/15\/broadband-customers-face-up-to-14-hike-in-bills-warns-which\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Broadband customers face up to 14% hike in bills, warns Which?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7389"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}