Short and curly's

 

Martin Lewis

@MartinSLewis

O2 price rise feels like a mockery of Ofcom’s consumer protection! O2 has announced that from April 2026, mobile customers will see their monthly bills rise by MORE THAN IT TOLD THEM, £30 a year – up 40% from the £21.60 annual increase previously written into their contracts.

Part of Martins press statement

This move feels to me a bit like it makes a mockery of

@Ofcom

's new 'pounds and pence' consumer protection regime, which came in at the start of this year. It was the regulator's solution to hideous above-inflation, mid-contract price hikes was that on sign-up firms should tell you in advance, in pounds and pence, the price hikes you'll face during the contract period.

Now O2 is increasing contracts by more than it said it would when people signed up. And while that means all its impacted mobile customers can leave penalty-free – and many should – we know few will. Most will likely just have to suck up a rise that was more than they were told when they signed up.

Read Martins tweeet here.

Dear reader.

My thoughts. . . . . .

They change the goal posts whenever they feel like it. You take out a contract for your mobile phone and they've got you by the short and curly's. You are their slave, and you enslave yourself by going along with it. All part of the plan.

People laugh at me when I take out my bog standard pay as you go text and calls only handset. Yes, there are a lot of things I cannot do, places that I cannot visit, events that I cannot join in with, because I refuse to be dictated to by those who want to enslave me.

I can ignore any statements about contracts, one less thing to worry about. Instead I can concentrate on what I can do through my own endeavors, to get the most out of my life, without the constant reminders that I am a slave.

OK, so you want to keep your phone like it's some kind of umbilical cord that you dare not let go of. You hand over your whole life to Blackrock or Vanguard or whoever owns you. Go ahead, but be aware, this is not the end game. Piece by piece you will lose more control of your life when it goes full circle. Digital ID for everything. Freedoms gone forever.

I am now going to go outside and meet up with some friends for a chat at Coffee Morning. Half way through the chat the phones will come out.

Thanks for popping in Have a good day. Toodle pip. ilona