The EE Consumer Price Index Price Rise is a SCAM!

[@mrgreen8654]

I don't think they "misunderstood" anything... These companies know exactly what they're doing!

[@chaseshadow]

All in the same CLUB owned by 2 corporation hedge funds - Blackrock and Vanguard. Follow the money.

[@AlienLivesMatter]

That Landrover getting knocked off the day after insurance policy is cancelled isn't a coincidence.

[@chaseshadow]

@@AlienLivesMatter In VEREY city they pay for 1 gang to do their dirty work - Keeping the city in check. Everyone know this for London. Birmingham and Manchester. You will never beat the FREEMASONS and Co.

[@caroletuck333]

All go else where for your service. If they have no customers they have no business!

[@Dicky104]

Totally agree about mobile phone networks. The more they bull about how good they are the worse the signals get. Had several different networks and lately they are crap. Oh and by the way EE put an ad on just before your vid!

[@lenshand]

I agree that this is all bollocks. The UK is the only place in the world where a ‘contract’ is not a contract. When you signed up for their services they gave you a price. That price should stay the same for the duration of the contract.

[@Frank_Kimono]

I experienced that not long ago, despite having contract for 15£ a month they incereased because some idiotic excuses not honouring the contract i signed. Being foreign born, I was enraged (it's about principle not money obviously) and called them crooks and liars on the phone. And yeah this shithole medieval island is just getting worse and worse. Absurd after absurd, scandal after scandal, grift, scam and rip off

[@Beliefisthedeathofintellect]

Any change in a contract without your signature viods the contract.

[@fredfred2363]

Sadly, it IS in the contract. When you sign up, you basically agree with all THEIR Ts and Cs. It's a bit one sided to say the least.

[@Beliefisthedeathofintellect]

@@fredfred2363 honestly you should read the legislation that they go by. Vastly misinterpreted. Wins happening everywhere.

[@CJA150179]

100% agree 👍 👍

[@Phil-uv8nq]

Leave EE. Make them realise we won’t pay their scam prices. Simple

[@amateurcameraman]

Problem is, they all have exactly the same scam!!! Anyone would think they've colluded to fix it all in their favour, and to steal from us!!

[@paulsmith982]

Good idea, but. Most organisations are so big, these days, they don't care if they lose a customer. They know that their competition is annoying their customers and that some of those disgruntled customers will be coming to EE. I remember closing a bank account many, many years ago. I received a letter from that bank asking why I was leaving the bank. What had they done wrong? When I ditched Lloyds in favour of TSB, about six years ago, I didn't hear a word from Lloyds. They just don't care. it's the same with the big supermarkets. Tesco annoys you so you change to Sainsbury's who annoy you so you start shopping at Morrisons. You're not the only one receiving crappy service, many other people are experiencing it and are changing their preferred supermarket at the same time as you.

[@bru-ci8745]

I don't believe EE is the only Mobile company that does this.

[@michaelkennedy8766]

Exactly what I did with Virgin who also use this practice, got a two year deal with no increase in price, guaranteed.

[@CRhodesDesign]

Its not just EE that does this, they all do.

[@stephencoleman2414]

Imagine how all the farmers feel having their money land and freedom stolen

[@vampire__uk]

True Story

[@jackboots-u6g]

Well they won’t be. The government own fuck all. The people do. Oh and the spraying of skies. Yes that cold grey cloud you live under. Not for us thanks

[@lawreence13]

They are being decimated by the globalist plans to reduce food production as it causes global warming, through the EC and our gov even though we are meant to be implementing Brexit. Its all one big plan to impoverish and break the will of the people. That's what illegal immigration is all about an alternative army when civil war breaks out

[@mikythesaint6507]

Blame the Government. Its meant to be regulated. That's how they can put the price up Mid-contract.

[@beebTim]

OffCom are for cancelling individuals and fining GBNews not upsetting the multi-national corporations.

[@JPG0072]

That's the problem. Nothing is being regulated. Or they now are the regulators . I remember I went with talk talk broadband because the specifically would not put the price up mid contract- guaranteed- then they put it up! They said it didn't include inflation - but I was able to cancel without charge- which I did. So read all 5000 pages of the contact in future.

[@davidlewis4399]

They are a PLC so can charge what they want dont like it go to another provider whats the government got to do with it ?

[@JPG0072]

@@davidlewis4399 Go to another provider- who's a PLC? Then where?

[@mikythesaint6507]

@@davidlewis4399 A review into mid-contract price hikes on mobile and broadband bills has been launched by the telecoms regulator, amid concerns that providers aren't being clear enough about what customers can expect to pay during the full length of their contract. Does Ofcom work for the Consumer or Company? Does it not exist to see this type of price increase does not happen? Is it not the Governments task to run these regulatory services, to protect the consumer? Hence my post.

[@rv_at_the_beach2603]

Quick question for UK people. What constitutes the CPI? In the US it's stuff like milk, eggs, meat, gas, electricity, etc. How much milk does EE drink? How many eggs do they eat? You get the drift. Geoff is right, it's a scam.

[@scaryfakevirus]

LOL

[@CristiNeagu]

It's the same in the UK. And just like in the US, that "standard basket" keeps changing. They go from lots of high quality meat products 20 years ago to a tiny portion of fake meat every month, and they pretend like that's the same measurement. In reality, since 2019, prices have gone up by about 100%.

[@leeboss373]

I think you’ll find they don’t include food shopping and energy cost, they say that’s too volatile.

[@andreasgeorgiou2026]

I once called EE and they offered to upgrade my contract for an extra £3 per month as I needed more data while I was on holiday. When I got my bill for the next month the price had gone up by over £10 per month instead of £3, so I called EE to complain. I was then told that the price I’d paid was correct as per the Consumer Price Index and that I’d been quoted the “old” price when I agreed to the upgrade, so everything was fair and there was nothing I could do about it. They then increased my price again a few months later as per their Terms & Conditions. How’s that for customer service and honestly?

[@matthewgodwin3050]

I had exactly the same experience with both TalkTalk and Plusnet on my home phone & broadband package. All these phone and internet companies are the same. A bunch of crooks.

[@dorsetwurzle]

EE is crap end of, but they all are. The 5G is utter shite, it will show you that you have two bars on 5G and f@ck all happens when you try and use the shite. Also the Network seems to be set up for the Darwin bait that steps out into the road in front of you looking at the pissing screen all the time.

[@maxchele]

I'm a truck driver and have been using mobile phones for over 20 years and the last couple of years the phone signal has been crap and o2 has the same bollox excuses that EE spouts out

[@mikythesaint6507]

That's because O2 have bought out Virgin and transferred over 3 millions Virgin Sims to 02, plus Tesco Mobile sits on the 02 network. Possibly Sky as well. its simply that the Network infrastructure cant take the amount of Users on the Network. Worse in Cities. Very Sad.

[@StephenButlerOne]

I have a suspicion that the 5g switch over, degrades the sub 5g signals. I travel a lot and have noticed the signal is getting worse. I've been with ee since it started, was with t-mobile before then and was grandfathered in. Side note t-mobs web site was really good, ee is probably 10 years old now. And it is still shit!

[@pauljohnson9326]

I totally agree that o2 is complete crap.

[@doru10922]

It's not only them, every contract that you sign have something like this

[@beebTim]

Same with GiffGaff (Using the O2 network). Absolute garbage.

[@sixonesix9429]

I'm in the mobile phone trade pretty much since it's inception. All networks are going backwards from where they were. I have a "thankyou" certificate from Vodafone for helping them to their first 1million subs. The 90's were the best in terms of coverage. Now we have less masts, more users than ever, using more services on their phone than ever and price rises. They will never admit to being over subscribed. They are a closed shop of parroting the same narrative.

[@marcus.H]

Actually, the reason for stronger signal was more likely due to lower wavelength bands being used. It's like Long Wave Vs FM Radio. Higher frequency wavelengths allow for faster data transfer but they don't travel as far. It's a tradeoff

[@xr6lad]

@@marcus.Hummm surely that means you install more masts.

[@fredfred2363]

It's kind of explained in the Blackberry movie (over subscribed and insufficient capacity). I enjoyed the movie.

[@marcus.H]

@@xr6lad yes. Correct

[@CristiNeagu]

I keep telling people that the mobile service in the UK is bad. The audio quality is absolutely horrible. You can barely understand what the other person is saying. Go anywhere else in Europe and phone calls are crystal clear. And coverage is absolutely laughable.

[@petelacey243]

Absolutely correct Geoff. The CPI is calculated AFTER all costs have risen due to whatever excuses businesses have already made. It is not meant to be used as a gude to increase prices. And as for the extra 3% to improve the business that's waht profits are meant to be used for.

[@davidlewis4399]

Yup Vodaphone same price increase dont like it go to another provider.

[@AdamBuckley1964]

By using CPI they appear to be blaming someone else (ONS) rather than just clearly saying 'EE are putting prices up'. Add in the extra they put on the CPI and they are clearly just treating their customers with contempt.

[@khajiit8221]

Many years ago I was on pay as you go with Orange. Never had a problem with them for years. When they became EE, I all of a sudden got constant calls and txts harassing me to upgrade to a contract. I eventually switched mobile provider.

[@venataciamoon2789]

Same here. Orange were great. EE I knew would be another greedy Corp and there pay as you go was a scam. Left them straight away. Nor that any others are any better. I just joined Tesco and they did the same as EE, put £10 on and only used £7, end of the month... money gone. It's guve us £10 and we steal what you don't use.

[@simont1108]

Proper rant, the bollocks flowed well, and in 10 years of running my own business as a one man operation I certainly didn't need any Government number crunchers to advise me on how to stay competitive.

[@jagjay8033]

its funny how everything goes up because of the cost of living except wages

[@Law24809905]

I think its more the value of your currency being devalued. Through the printing & creation of money.

[@cafe405]

Gas. petrol and soft cheese prices are going up.....better put up our prices as a cellular data supplier.

[@mellarner8253]

I wonder if the companies increase staff wages and increase payments to all their suppliers by the same amount?

[@0skar9193]

They could increase the services at the same time

[@StephenFirth-x3j]

Geoff great rant as always, I’ve just watched an advert for eon next, where they are promising if you sign up with them they guarantee to supply you with 100% renewable energy, sounds great doesn’t it until you read their small print, which then goes onto say that the electricity you use won’t actually be renewable,(because that is an impossibility) but they will buy certificates from some company which means that if they produce renewable energy everyone involved can say it is renewable or green, which they know is a lie, as during the night solar does not work and wind generally produces less, plus the cables cannot tell the difference between the sources of power generated, an absolute con and Bolox , I will be contacting the asa to see what they have to say, keep on ranting

[@andyyoung970]

Epic rant Geoff! I don't have all this bollox since I dumped my (dumb) smart phone and just pay six quid a month with Giff Gaff for unlimited calls and texts, happy days 😄

[@rl3898]

Exactly what I did many years ago, and now I get the odd £10 for introducing others to the system that suits a lot of us.

[@stucam8110]

That’s why I changed to Tesco Mobile, they keep the same price for the duration of the contract, just like the good old days before all this nonsense started

[@bentullett6068]

Tesco are part of O2 I think. I purchased and took out a contract with Vodafone and they to fix the price and are a lot cheaper on a unlimited data phone package than EE's basic phone plan with minimum data allowance.

[@stuartfitch7093]

I can be stood on my landing in my house and have G5 perfect but then go into my back bedroom six foot away and the reception falls off a cliff and my phone buffers halfway through the latest Geoff buys cars video. Now that is annoying! Keep up the good work Geoff.

[@bobstirling6885]

That's why 5G needs repeaters on every lamp post as the range is so low, 4G has far better service.

[@chasleask8533]

Hah! and satellites are just as close . 'Satellites' , Pfffftttt !!

[@edmundblackaddercoc8522]

Yet you can stand in a desert in Nevada and it never drops.

[@lparky4409]

​@@edmundblackaddercoc8522shh, you might have found the super secret annexe of the Pentagon.

[@japitts2010]

@@bobstirling6885Complete rubbish. Range & coverage patterns are dictated by the frequency in use, not the technology. EE deploy 4G & 5G on both high & low-bands. 4G is a much more mature network, with equipment on the vast majority of EE sites - something not true of 5G

[@johnpassey3176]

We are currently with EE, I think their service is slowly getting worse. Unfortunately they are the only mobile providers, oh wait........

[@Soniax]

This is why I am ditching o2 and getting a sim free. I will be out of contract 12th Feb, I leave 13th Feb. I am sick to death of these companies putting up prices by however much they feel like.

[@RobsNeighbor]

Geoff has the best channel, I love truth and value! Get bunches of it here! I have the worst cell service, I had a mobile phone in 1999 and it was so much better than the coverage of my current plan that is overpriced and I agree!

[@woodman2269]

It states on their website they also add on a extra 3.9% above the CPI ( Price rises each year on 31 March by Consumer Price Index rate of inflation + 3.9%. ) So... like you say... this is why the CPI keeps going up so much every year on year.

[@Horus9339]

Modern technology William. I stopped using mobile phones years ago and now have one only to get the OTP from banks/online shopping. I put £5 of credit on it a couple of years ago and send myself a text message every six months so they do not switch it off. Yes it is EE. P.S. I expect that makes me their worst customer as I cost them more money than I spend. Happy days.

[@paularmstrong4739]

I binned EE last year. Changed to Tesco mobile which was nearly half the price for a better contract 👍

[@chrisbarron5861]

Agreed. CONSUMER price index states how much more expensive things have become for CONSUMERS. Not VENDORS !

[@EvilGav]

Inflation is a measure of how prices of goods and services have changed - they literally have a list of 100,000 or so goods and services, check the price each month, and then measure the difference. That's it. It is not a measure of how much it costs to run a business, nor a measure of how much you need to increase prices to remain profitable or any other laughable lie they tell every time. If you want to understand how fucking bollocks this is, the vast majority of almost any companies costs are salaries - if they don't put up salaries by the amount they are increasing bills (which not one company does), then all of that increase is doing is increasing profits. Profiteering at it's finest.

[@links-awakening]

The tone was spot on! Any cost changes should be based on a company's actual cost position, nothing to do with the CPI. So funny, I thought the headline was EV price scam ;p

[@dalerowley6039]

Completely agree with this being bad practice. It’s no wonder services inflation is continuing to remain above other inflation. They’ve already committed to driving up next year’s CPI figure!

[@poulterbaz]

Great rant Geoff. I live 23 miles from central London and the mobile signal here is crap. They are simply putting the prices up because they can.

[@Sophie333C]

I don’t know why people have contracts anymore, it’s cheaper to use pay as you go!

[@bobstirling6885]

If my phone fails during the contract, which regularly happens, I get a brand new £3-400 phone. PAYG may be cheaper to use, subject to requirements and contract cost, but you don't get a new phone every 2 years or a replacement for failure unless you can make a warranty claim.

[@Lot76CARS]

Brilliant, what a self fulfilling prophecy that pricing methodology is! To be honest, I’ve now got the practice to shop around every year on everything, rarely do you find anybody proposing half reasonable price increases these days. My broadband provider has just written to me to double the monthly fee, no logic provided..

[@wanted-33]

The question I have is that if the CPI drops, will EE drop your payments?

[@christopherward9230]

🤔

[@HappyBagger]

They'll just rise but not quite as much loll

[@Cayres9]

Also that Land Rover getting stolen the day after insurance was cancelled ? seems like someone in the insurance company did it as how else would they know ?

[@billytollerton4220]

Nice one Jeff for calling out their bullshit ,and I thought that vat was a EU tax that went straight to them .🤬💥

[@steve-EV]

I’m with Vodafone and they are beyond atrocious. The very definition of corporate ineptitude.

[@steve-r-collier]

question: if you lived in a remote place would you pay car tax and insurance? personally i'd be tempted not to..one way out of the system..

[@OatCakeProductions]

According to EE, they have 85%* 4G geographic coverage in the UK. Unfortunately, no matter where ever I travel to in the UK I'm always in that 15% that has no coverage. They are like all big companies. They don't give a toss about their loyal customers who have been with them for years.

[@jamesm90]

To be fair all the mobile networks are shite. Outside of towns mobile signals are appalling and virtually non existent in the West country. Ive just moved to EE because O2 were useless. EE is marginally better.

[@Paul-pb3vq]

I’m with BT which is EE sighed a new 24 month contract last year, never again as soon as I signed the contract had a price increase. Bearing in mind I’ve been a customer for years. Took stuff off which was on my previous contract to save money now I’m actually paying more than last time. Although you sign a contract it’s always in their favour.

[@chrisguy6675]

No Joke Geoff, I’ve just watched the video and it was interrupted by an EE advert……. Made me chuckle😁

[@swoop1352]

And have you noticed, Mr Kiplings cherry bakewells have less filling now. The icing used to be level with the pastry, now there's a 5mm gap.

[@bassfingers]

“Geoff Rants at Midnight”. 10/10 would watch! 😉

[@japitts2010]

If Geoff was willing, it would be very interesting to have an extended field trial of all 4 MNOs (network operators) side-by-side on his travels. I could place bets on the rough pecking order, but it would be very interesting to see.

[@Richard-r1x7d]

I get a sneaking impression that it is a bit bollocks

[@regardtvandermerwe2675]

On a separate comment, I saw a very vague article again today in daily mail around the crash in Wimbledon village last year. Worth following up on that.

[@jasonthorne4489]

Great video, Geoff totally agree with you absolute rip-off. The whole of this country is beginning to become a complete rip-off.Well said mate keep them coming. 👍🏻

[@cp4512]

Just left EE and gone to O2. Cheaper and I seem to be getting better coverage too.

[@trucker-zv4nh]

loved this rant . the spoken truth 👍

[@Cayres9]

I jacked my contract in with Tesco mobile , they tried to raise it from £10 a month to £25 a month thats a 150% increase so told them to do one and instead now i pay as you go with o2 £10 a month and you get back £3 a month on that for rewards , so yeah do not ever get phone contracts its a scam.

[@rbrass39]

Let’s have a ranty Geoff buys cars video at midnight 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@dannycasson2487]

my 02 went up by over 13% last year and the service is worse than ever so what are they doing with this money. im a lorry driver up and down the country every night ive tried ee 3 and o2 and i can say although there shit ee is the best of a bad bunch. all networks went shite when 5g was released even stood next to a mask you dont get full signal on 02

[@noelward8047]

Love a good rant. Phone companies have one job ... provide a signal. (Ironically there was an ad during this video ... apparently I can have a nice new phone for under £46 / month ... Haha)

[@ladyjane6846]

Same here. Two years ago, EE signal was fine. Now, for months, I phone EE and tell them that nobody can hear me. I also tell them that I'm keeping my side of the contract but they aren't so they can cancel my payment for that month. I haven't paid for months. Still doesn't help the terrible phone signal. Also noted the mid term increase but for what? Nobody can flipping hear me!

[@EnglishTurbines]

Your right Geoff....Vote with your feet mate.....🤔🙄🇬🇧

[@japitts2010]

Just make sure a chosen new network gives you the service you want where you want - a PAYG SIM is ideal for this. All networks are not the same!

[@barrieshepherd7694]

Ofcom agree with you (and us!) they are proposing changes; "Toughening our rules To tackle this problem, we propose to introduce a new rule requiring that any price written into a customer’s contract would need to be set out in pounds and pence, prominently and transparently, at the point of sale. That includes being clear about when any changes to prices will occur. This would prevent providers from including inflation-linked, or percentage-based, price rise terms in all new contracts." So no more use of RPI/CPI - hopefully!

[@mikythesaint6507]

That's because O2 have bought out Virgin and transferred over 3 millions Virgin Sims to 02, plus Tesco Mobile sits on the 02 network. Possibly Sky as well. its simply that the Network infrastructure cant take the amount of Users on the Network. Worse in Cities. Very Sad. EE is possibly better as they don't have as many users and they have consolidated their 3G and 4G bandwidth.

[@sixonesix9429]

Pretty much bang on. Well said

[@dannydee2668]

My SIM only contract is great, but in September I got an email telling me that my contract was expiring in a few days and to go to their app and select my new plan. What was weird is it was more than what I was on so I looked at all the plans and did absolutely nothing. So months have passed and they are still charging the same low cost monthly plan so I'm keeping quiet. 🤫

[@MrGShep]

Hi Geoff looking forward to meeting you at the Barnyard Comedy Club 7th April. I say ditch the phone n get back into old school sideband CB for long range comms. be fun seeing you n the mac master talking to each other on one of your runs. Old School free comms gotta be the way forward🤣and also more communal for services like speed traps or road problems without taking your eyes off the road. Just gotta get all you car drivers back into them. 🤣

[@RobinOsborne2312]

I agree with everything you say Geoff. We are with Virgin and get the same information via email every year. The service is crap and I can’t even get a signal in certain parts of my house. It’s not as if we live in the bloody outback either. I have spoken to several neighbours and they have the same problems no matter which network they are on. We got better service when we moved here 20 years ago on our old Nokia 3130 phones. I also think that phone manufacturers need to get back to basics and concentrate on getting their products to be able to make calls rather than all the stupid non-essential gimmicks which are hardly ever used after the first few days when the novelty wears off. Rant over!!!

[@AlexLancashirePersonalView]

You will have to find us all the best service to use Geoff.

[@roblonsdale8927]

I,ve been with smarty for 2 years now £16 / month unlimited date, calls and texts, sim only

[@tonygreenbank8611]

Geoff I well remember back in the days of pre- digital mobile phones I could get a phone signal throughout the Yorkshire dales. Now you get 5 miles north of Skipton and its dead. I also remember going over to Holland to look at some machines that was a total waste of time as they were complete junk. We boarded the ferry at Zebrudge (not the right spelling). After the boat turned around (thankfully with the bow doors shut). I went on deck stood next to the funnel, I switch my phone back to T-Mobile and phoned the wife. I got a perfect connection with the nearest part of the UK being Great Yarmouth 200 miles away. They are telling us how much their service has improved, yes right! Pull the other one it's got bells on!

[@hectorshouse7348]

Agreed Geoff👍

[@rogerhargreaves2272]

Ring them and ask them for the retentions department. They are there to keep you on their network without you leaving.

[@seanjones1020]

Mobile networks have been doing this for years because they understand inflation and how it works. If we want to stop government inflating the currency every year, then you have to make it know politically to the politicians.

[@0skar9193]

As if the politicians care, they are in on the grift

[@seanjones1020]

@@0skar9193 Agreed, there's no way central banking is going to be abolished anytime soon.

[@stuart121972]

I’m on a sim only pay monthly plan with Smarty and luckily the price hasn’t increased, but I totally agree with your rant. Internet providers are the same, I’m waiting for Vodafone to tell me my broadband is going up.

[@justmenicole4842]

You forgot to mention all the freebies and promotions they offer to new clients whilst raising ours ( here in Canada it least) or did I not catch it though the rant?!😂

[@0skar9193]

Same in UK. I was once told by a sales person in store that they use new customers as a lost leader, the loyal existing customers pay for the new ones.

[@laser-sj]

SHRINKFLATION is rife in this country everywhere. 😡😡

[@paulie-Gualtieri.]

Kevin Bacon lost all his money thanks to Bernie Madoff 😅😂

[@edmundblackaddercoc8522]

Lol

[@christopherhearn]

The whole family switched to EE because we were told that they provided the best signal. Turns out that their signal is just as bad in rural areas as Virgin/O2 that we've just left. Clever sales pitch/advertising BS. All mobile signal providers concentrate in profitable heavily populated zones and don't allow for 'mobile' use!

[@alundavies5171]

well said Geoff!

[@adrianmurphy1722]

You are so right having been with Orange and EE every week you get text/ email say service is no good and will be up and running soon.

[@hectorshouse7348]

When they don’t get the phone calls right you know they’re taking the p***

[@JonClark-y6q]

Geoff... last year O2 put all our plans up by, if I remember correctly, 17%... this being the out of control CPI plus 3%. The consequence of this was I changed tariffs in-contract to cheaper ones and when those three contracts expire at the end of this year we'll be cancelling all of them. You're absolutely right about their use of CPI+3% meaning their own actions will cause CPI to increase next year. Good game, good game. Not.

[@beefy0978]

Aren’t EE owned by BT now?

[@thathurt]

Ah yes BT always the most expensive company for everything. 😂

[@carlbrandom]

I totally agree, I joined BT for home broadband and tv, it hadn’t even been activated and I got a letter saying in line with the CPI they were increasing my plan by around 15%…. It literally hadn’t been activated, then EE did the same for my mobile contract. It’s a mafia racket

[@_Sorry_Not_Sorry]

Giff Gaff all day long mate, cheap and good coverage 😁👍

[@eartheart3694]

I've been with them 6 years, no complaints.

[@japitts2010]

GiffGaff is a budget O2-MVNO. Great if they suit, but EE are streets ahead nationally.

[@bananaboat8771]

When I visited the UK I purchased a pay as you go SIM in Heathrow, it worked until I left London. The next time it worked was when I arrived back in London a week later. I live in what is classed as a developing country and I have rarely found anywhere where there is no mobile service.

[@iamaslavetonoman911]

Go on Geoff..lmao give it to them lol..dont be holding back...lol

[@BionicRusty]

Voda are exactly the same. I never buy phones off them now and only use sim deals. North Wales is one of the worst in the UK for coverage and there are no plans to improve it. I’m usually on ‘E’ and even when in cities and showing ’5G’, my calls drop. I’m regularly in Manchester, liverpool, York, Chester and others but it’s always the same.

[@Richard-r1x7d]

Nice hat

[@strandvaskeren]

First off, Staropramen makes brilliant beer, so I'm looking forward to your proper beer infused rant. Secondly you're absolutely right, a price index is a measurement, not a trend setter.

[@theun-personing5674]

I took EE contract in Feb a few years back @ £37 and within a few months it was £43 per month. Last year it went up to £47 per month. Left them know because it's a rip off. Now paying £17 per month for the same benefits on another network.

[@CJA150179]

You are 100% right.. I've been on to EE several times about this.. As far as I see it, it's breach of contract because I agreed to what I am willing to pay when I take the contract out and then half way though the contract (which they insisted on been minimal 18 months) they changed the rate witch I don't agree to..

[@peterharrison7336]

Dear Geoff, love the rant, quite agree. I am with Vodafone and live on a hill and ever since I have had a mobile I have never had more than 2 bars signal even with 4g, if I want to make a mobile call I get a slightly better signal at the top of the garden and watch the traffic on the M56. The landline has gone to voip and that keeps cutting out and then nothing works when the electric goes off. Welcome to the future, I am already there. I am working through your videos from last week now because last week I was watching Sick Week drag and drive event from Florida.

[@leswatson8563]

Goeff. An old mate of mine first got a mobile back in 1996. His work means he travels around the UK alot, just as i once did as part of our jobs. Mobile networks have always been hit or miss depending area by area or network. Wales and parts of Scotland, Cornwell & Summerset & Dorset have always been a problem just like the Isle of Wight. He recently ended his mobile contract and bought himself a basic mobile with no internet. Now his GP 'service' is telling him, no internet then he cant get an appointment or get his repeat prescriptions? So whats going to appear on death certificates soon? Death due to no internet??? Thatll make a change indtead of climate crisis 🤣🤣🤣!

[@lawreence13]

My mobile is through Tesco's. Got a belated upgrade last week to be told the prices are going up and for the first time an inflation clause you have to agree to. Doesn't bode well

[@chrisbeard1750]

You are absolutely correct. The Government applies the Retail Price Index (RPI) as a guide to how much pensions should rise, so it should be just the same for companies. RPI is always lower than CPI. EE is scamming all its users.

[@mccarthyjohn576]

Gwan ya good Ting! They are taking the piss, this is not the 1st I have heard about CPI price rises. It just causes inflation.

[@comicmania2008]

I had a similar increase last year with EE, but I rang up, told them I was going to cancel, then they offered me a contract that was even cheaper. All phone companies do this, even BT, and I did the same with them, and got a reduction. That said, you should not have to keep ringing them up every year to renegotiate with these gangsters!

[@Equiluxe1]

I had a letter telling me that improvements were being made to the local network in order to improve the service in the area a year ago, ever since the signal has been next to non existent and calls will drop out in the middle, pull my phone out of my pocket and there is full bars on the signal strength and before my eyes it falls to zero, before they made these improvements I had good service. I think what has gone on is the G4 has been removed from places like London and moved to Norfolk in order to replace the G3 but the cell towers are the same and G4 does not travel as far as the old G3 service did so unless they erect more towers the service outside of the main conurbations is just going to get worse.

[@Hasdac]

Change provider and use phone less. I put a tenner on my phone once a year just to keep the number..

[@tomkemp9465]

I am on BT and EE. Every so often my broadband resets for no apparent reason. I think the idea is to persuade me to “upgrade” to a more expensive and “better” service. Also, I am promised that if the BT signal goes down it is backed up by EE. Unfortunately, there is no EE signal at Home

[@69Phuket]

With UW which is o2. O2 users get preference but in general is huge difference to Tesco Mobile which was losing me sat nav and causing me time. Sat Nav? There's a video..It all works on the GPS system...No satellites! No space! Just Bullshit!

[@openminded3763]

Absolutely right Geoff EE's practice seems to be verging on a scam load of old rollocks. You would expect a responsible business to look at their operating costs for the past twelve months and base any price increases or indeed price reductions on that. Obviously they would need to factor in any known operating on-costs that will definately hit them in the coming 12 months but there could also be a known OC reduction in the pipeline and to just take the past 12 months CPI and add to that a plucked out of the air % comfort blanket is taking their customers for mugs; vote and feet comes to mind. If every business did that it would as you say, just gauantee a compound year on year cost of living increase which would simply snowball the CPI and force an increase of interest rates. It's seems like a rip off and something you would think a Government with more half a brain and desire to get re-elected would jump on from a great hieght. I have to wonder what excuse they would use for upping their charges if the CPI was static or even dropped a peg. Wouldn't that be interesting.

[@bentullett6068]

I left EE because they were stupidly expensive for a basic contract which was £38 a month. Went over to Vodafone who charge £24 a month for a contract with unlimited data. I am also getting better phone signal in places I struggled to get signal in. Only disadvantage I have is if travelling abroad where there are roaming charges.

[@frasercrone3838]

The CPI takes a bunch of set items and from that determine how much extra it is costing people and businesses to live and run than it did 12 months ago. What you will find though is that different businesses will be impacted differently because they don't all use the items in the CPI the same way. In the case of EE you might find that the goods and services they use that pertain to the CPI did not actually rise by the CPI average. And what is the addition on top of the CPI? Is that a buffer in case they are wrong? So if the percentage of the CPI was higher than any increased costs they faced and then they whacked on a surcharge they are actually double dipping. Its a scam that many businesses use, and governments don't want to know about it. What if EE's employees went to them every year and said we want our wages to go up by the CPI figure every year, so we don't go backwards in pay grade. How do you think they would take that? it's a scam like any other scam and they know we can do nothing about it because they have been allowed to buy up the opposition and reduce competition under the nose of the regulator and therefore you have no recourse to go elsewhere because that is the other scam, all the providers collude to fix prices just like fuel companies. it's the same operating model. It's a scam.

[@paulchambers-061]

Totally agree. I think ofcom are clamping down in this practice by forcing them to be upfront about any mid contract increases

[@Pulpdiction1999]

Not just EE, O2, and the others do it. I have just aligned my sim only plan to early April, then I get a new deal each April which negates the price increase. Agreed on the service, I can't get enough quality to make a decent call at least 50% of the time these days. There is no justification for CPI increase plus 3.9%, this is about profit, are they putting staff wages up by 4% + 3.9%? Do all their costs go up by 7.9%? No, so where does the money go, either profit or in management bonuses, not making the service better.