Comment by hexbin010

Next stage will be significant broadband/mobile price rises.

This is happening in the UK - 24 month contracts with annual 10-18% rises built in are the norm now

(The regulator worked in cahoots with the companies. A big storm was created during the high-interest rate period inventing/overstating a problem that people can't predict their bills because the rises were based on official inflation figures, which naturally varied. So the companies went: ok sure we can do fixed price rises...(At a nice high rate). This was sold as a 'win' because the rises are now 'predictable')

Plus the cheaper broadband (ADSL) is being phased out and replaced with fibre which for many people is overkill and everyone has to pay the price for that the upgrade whether you need it or not.

Three and Vodafone just merged which will mean price rises in mobile data too due to reduced competition