Telecoms firms accused of overcharging landline-only customers by £200m

Fideres says almost 600,000 UK landline-only customers, most of them elderly, have been charged ‘excessive’ prices since 2009. Photograph: Realimage/Alamy

A trio of telecoms firms have been accused of overcharging hundreds of thousands of landline-only customers by almost £200m, according to research.

Economists at Fideres argue that almost 600,000 UK landline-only customers have been charged “excessive” prices since 2009.