Sky cinema offer - in contract price increases

[Prawny82]

We've recently re-contracted with Sky for another 2 years and we're thinking of adding cinema again. It's offering us £10 per month for 2 years which is fine. But the usual 'prices may increase during this time' isn't accompanied by any caveats or limits. Does anyone know what the maximum they could put the price up to?

T&Cs have nothing so there's nothing stopping them from charging £100 a month from month 2.   

Is there anything anywhere about maximum limits like on phone contracts?

[xenon81]

Sky don't use the fixed price increase method common on other providers, but If the price increases within your contract you have the right to cancel.

[daveNOS · Accepted solution]

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@xenon81 wrote:

Sky don't use the fixed price increase method common on other providers, but If the price increases within your contract you have the right to cancel.

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@xenon81 The right to cancel only applies to broadband subscriptions, you have no contractual or consumer rights to cancel the TV service due to a mid contract price rise.

@Prawny82 The T&C's for Sky Q state the following,

During the minimum term, unless it is for a reason set out in condition 11.8 below (where the following

increase limits do not apply), we may increase the then standard price of each TV subscription service

only once in any 12 month period and the increase will not be more than 10% or the increase in the UK

Retail Price Index over the 12 months before we tell you about that price increase.

So unless the RPI gets out of control any increase of the base price should not exceed 10%. 

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@daveNOS wrote:

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@xenon81 wrote:

Sky don't use the fixed price increase method common on other providers, but If the price increases within your contract you have the right to cancel.

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@xenon81 The right to cancel only applies to broadband subscriptions, you have no contractual or consumer rights to cancel the TV service due to a mid contract price rise.

@Prawny82 The T&C's for Sky Q state the following,

During the minimum term, unless it is for a reason set out in condition 11.8 below (where the following

increase limits do not apply), we may increase the then standard price of each TV subscription service

only once in any 12 month period and the increase will not be more than 10% or the increase in the UK

Retail Price Index over the 12 months before we tell you about that price increase.

So unless the RPI gets out of control any increase of the base price should not exceed 10%. 

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Bare in mind though that the 10% increase relates to the base price of packages, not your discounted price.