Every O2, Three, Vodafone and EE price rise hitting all mobile phone customers

O2, Three, Vodafone and EE customers volition spot their monthly bills summation from April arsenic a swathe of terms hikes kicks in.

Major phone, broadband and wage TV companies hike their prices each April, with these usually linked to inflation figures, including for customers mid-contract.

But caller rules from regulator Ofcom mean that companies indispensable present beryllium upfront astir the increases by telling customers successful pounds and pence astir immoderate terms hikes included successful their contract, alternatively than utilizing percentages oregon ostentation measures.

Ofcom said the alteration is to assistance forestall the “nasty surprises” of inflation-based hikes and means phone, broadband and wage TV providers are banned from linking terms increases to aboriginal rates of inflation, which often see an other percent summation connected top, making it astir intolerable for customers to accurately estimation what they would pay.

The changes necessitate aboriginal terms hikes to beryllium acceptable retired “prominently and transparently” successful pounds and pence astatine the constituent of sale, but they inactive let for yearly mid-contract increases by a fixed amount.

So for caller customers, oregon those renewing oregon upgrading, firms indispensable archer you the nonstop rises that are coming successful pounds and pence. 

For existing customers successful their minimum declaration term, terms rises volition beryllium determined by what was successful your declaration erstwhile you signed up, which successful astir cases volition beryllium the ostentation complaint positive an other percent charge.

Listed are the confirmed terms increases for O2, Three, Vodafone and EE customers from April 2025:

O2

From April 1, 2025, the monthly terms of mobile plans volition spell up but the magnitude you’ll wage volition beryllium connected your Airtime Plan.

Customers connected pay-monthly and Sim-only mobile plans volition wage an other £1.80 per period from April, portion those connected Smartwatch Plans and Data lone volition wage an other £0.75p per month.

If you person a device-only plan, are connected pay-as-you-go, oregon connected O2 Essential past you won’t spot immoderate terms rises.

O2 has besides warned that retired of bundle charges volition summation by 5% each twelvemonth from April 1 and advised customers to cheque its Extra Charges usher for existent pricing information.

Three

Customers who joined oregon upgraded their phone, SIM Only, Mobile Broadband oregon Home Broadband program connected oregon aft September 8 2024, volition spot their Monthly Charge summation each April by a fixed magnitude depending connected your plan’s information allowance.

Plans 4GB oregon little and Smartwatch Pairing Plans volition summation by £1 per month, plans betwixt 5GB and 99GB volition summation by £1.25 per period and plans 100GB oregon implicit and Mobile Broadband plans volition summation by £1.50 per month. All Home Broadband plans volition summation by £2 per month.

If you’re a Three Your Way customer, the summation volition lone use to your Monthly Charge for your airtime plan. Any instrumentality outgo won’t beryllium affected.

Vodafone

Anyone that signed up to a Vodafone broadband contract, oregon upgraded, connected oregon aft July 2, 2024, volition wage a fixed complaint of £1 other per period for ‘basic’ mobile plans, £1.80 other per period for different pay-monthly mobile plans, oregon £3 other per period for location broadband.

If you took retired a Vodafone broadband contract, oregon upgraded, connected oregon earlier July 1, 2024, past your monthly payments volition emergence by 6.4% (December’s 2.5% Consumer Price Index fig positive 3.9 percent points).

Anyone connected Broadband Essentials, Mobile VOXI For Now, oregon Mobile pay-as-you-go won’t look immoderate terms rises from April.

Vodafone has besides warned it is expanding immoderate charges if customers spell implicit their monthly allowances. Out of bundle charges volition emergence from April by the Consumer Price Index complaint successful January positive 3.9%.

EE

Customers who bought a merchandise connected oregon aft April 10, 2024, volition beryllium connected EE’s latest presumption and conditions and those who bought a merchandise earlier this day volition beryllium connected CPI + 3.9% terms.

From March 31, those who are SIM lone volition spot a £1.50 per period terms rise, oregon £18 a year, and those with a handset connected their declaration look a £4 a period terms rise, oregon £48 a year.

Those with connected devices specified arsenic a laptop oregon tablet volition spot a £1.50 rise, broadband volition spell up by £3 a month, and EE TV volition emergence by £2 a month.