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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Clea Skopeliti

‘I’m being forced to make difficult choices’: outrage at telecoms price rise

Stuart Ward on jetty.
Stuart Ward and his wife live on a canal boat in North Yorkshire. Photograph: Gary Calton/The Observer

Stuart Ward, 68, was “astonished” when he learned EE would raise his broadband bill to £68.76 a month from April.

“The deal that Ofcom agreed with telecommunication companies to add 3.9% on top of inflation rises is a disgrace. And we, the consumers, have no real choice, as all [of the firms] appear to do it,” he says, adding that he was paying £60.11 a month before the price rise.

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