"Mark Coley" <mdc1003@nospam.cam.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> David Hearn wrote:
>> Peer to peer services tend to mean p2p sharing - certainly in my
>> experience in a network admin role. I've no idea if mobile networks take
>> a different stand on it.
>
> Well they have traditionally had a different understanding of 'internet
> access' to the rest of us, confusing it with 'web access', so maybe I need
> to make some more enquiries.
>
> Interestingly, I've just calculated what last month's bill would have been
> under the new charging scheme, assuming a 5p minimum charge per data
> session and capping at £1 a day (though knowing VF ssh/putty traffic would
> be treated as the most expensive as they would have no way of knowing if
> it was web/voip/file sharing etc so would would have to assume it was the
> most expensive). Normally I'd pay £25 a month and rarely go over my
> data/sms limit, but I reckon for the same usage it would now cost £49.51
> with no added benefits for me. That is an hefty change.
>
> I shall make some enquiries to Trading Standards next week to see what the
> law says.
>
> Mark.

If price changes are detrimental in that the increase is more than inflation
you should be able to cancel your contract.