I despise all this haggling & price differences, in the name of so called “competition”. In my dreamworld there would be fair, quite static, price bands for all customers. And dont even start me on the way they all make their own trenches in the road rather than sharing resources. The whole thing stinks! Rant over 
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It’s ridiculous, and not just for mobile and broadband. I’m currently with Aviva for car insurance so tried a “special, personalised quote” for home insurance which was £360. Tried Go Compare and got the exact same insurance, with Aviva, for £142.
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Same vibes I had with Scottish widows for a life insurance policy, much cheaper through a comparison site broker, on top of huge commissions they pay to them.
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Also remember if you use a comparison site you can usually get topcashback from the purchase as well especially for insurance.
I’m happy to do some work to get a better deal. I do disagree with constant price rises for existing customers, but I don’t think it’s a company’s responsibility to make sure you’re getting the best deal if you’ve signed up at a price you’re happy with.
Increase from Sky broadband dropped, they couldn’t do anything about the price increase (checked alt plans and discounts), but they did say I could leave anytime so will just wait for cityfibre to roll out and hopefully get some gig speeds for <£28pm 
The increase dropped? You young people with your crazy talk…
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As in, then increase dropped to my mailbox.
I’m also 37 in less than 2 weeks, not so young 
That is still very young I’ve got rock band t-shirts older than that 
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Oh I won’t make it to 60 with my family history not even sure why I’m paying into a pension at this point
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I’ve got pants older than that
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I was wondering why Virgin massively cut prices from mid January in my area.
It looks like OpenReach are finishing FTTP works in my area in the next 3 months.
Sadly I am locked in on a more expensive plan that I couldn’t leave.
When they had monopoly the lowest I saw for 1gig was £33.
I am even now seeing other providers quoted with those speeds. Before I left EE in 2023 I had signed up to get notified once they get up to speed and they did.
I have now added an O2 Volt after Three agreeing to let me go fee free due to poor reception. I will keep paying £27.99 for 1Gbps no April increase this year, and unlimited O2 sim for £12.
We’ve had FTTP for a few years now and the Virgin deals have also improved massively over that time.
No idea how long you have left, but various providers do have offers to pay for some level of cancellation fee.
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I will play those games once this monopoly is dealt with.
Just signed up for Toob. 900Mb up and down for £18 via Topcashback.
Sky somehow let you exit early when they do a price increase so took advantage.
May need to buy a new Eero as my 6s can only handle 500Mb on WiFi.
Do you need more than that?
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Prob not lol. But CEX have some 6E Pros for quite a tempting price.
Ended up buying a tri-band WiFi 7 Deco BE9300 as it’s on sale at Amazon.
This thing is a beast. One unit has replaced the two Eero 6 units I previously had.
I’m getting 800Mb down / 1Gb up on my iPhone in the living room where it’s positioned.
My Mac Mini two floors up in the loft has gone from 159Mb down to 574Mb.
I’m still not sure if it makes a practical difference but it makes me happy. We do have a lot of concurrent usage so I’m guessing it’s going to help with that a lot.
Just need to sell the Eeros now.
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I bought the same thing a few weeks back when Costco had it on offer. Agree that it’s a great piece of kit and covers the house with better speeds than my old Deco P9 setup
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