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Orange and Vodafone go it alone with PAYG price hikes

Orange and Vodafone are raising their pay-as-you-go voice and text prices, claiming they have been forced to do so by new Ofcom rules designed to make it cheaper to call mobile phones Read more

4 July, 2011 by David Meyer

Microsoft to push up UK volume pricing by up to a third

...increasing by a quarter or more and some by over a third. Price hikes of up to 33.5 percent will hit businesses entering licensing... Read more

2 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner

BT to raise prices for line rental, calls to landlines

...calls to mobiles." The analyst house Ovum pointed out that BT's price hikes come "hot on the heels of a recently agreed pay deal... Read more

19 July, 2010 by David Meyer

IBM Innovate: That Was The Week That Was

...IBM's. Instead you can blame BA strikes, Icelandic volcanoes and flight price hikes, all three of which conspired to keep me fully grounded. But... Read more

14 June, 2010
London Cycle Pro 1.1

London Cycle Pro 1.1

...with audible and vibrating alarm to inform you in advance of any price hikes. STATIONS & FAVOURITES LIST:All cycle stations in a useful list, allowing... Read more

3 February, 2011
London Cycle: Maps & Routes 3.2

London Cycle: Maps & Routes 3.2

...with audible and vibrating alarm to inform you in advance of any price hikes. STATIONS & FAVOURITES LIST: All cycle stations in a useful list, allowing... Read more

15 October, 2010

ICANN hands VeriSign new monopoly on .com

...VeriSign is guaranteed at least $288.6 million in annual revenue — with price hikes at a rate that far outpaces inflation. The deal is not... Read more

2 March, 2006 by Declan McCullagh

Taiwan: MS may have violated trade laws

Taiwan will investigate allegations that Microsoft illegally increased prices Read more

8 May, 2002 by ZDNet UK

Domain name price hikes attacked

...over onto America's Capitol Hill, where allegations of monopolization and unreasonable price hikes surfaced in a congressional hearing on Wednesday. The dispute arises out... Read more

8 June, 2006 by Anne Broache and Declan McCullagh

Small ISPs 'face ruin' over BT price hikes

Many small ISPs face ruin in the face of BT's proposed price hikes, meaning less choice for customers Read more

27 August, 2004 by Matt Loney

SAP price hikes delayed

The UK SAP users group predicts rises will not arrive until Q2 next year, after SAP announced its value benchmarking timescale had slipped Read more

2 December, 2009 by David Meyer

Memory price hikes make SSDs less attractive

Surging prices for Nand-type flash memory have created a new hurdle for the adoption of solid-state drives by making them significantly more expensive Read more

9 July, 2009 by Matthew Broersma

SAP users win deal over support price hikes

The SAP User Group Network has secured an agreement whereby the company must meet a set of key performance indicators to justify the price rises it proposed last year Read more

1 May, 2009 by Tim Ferguson

TalkTalk attacks BT local-loop price hikes

Just after Ofcom closed a consultation that is expected to allow BT to raise its charges to rival ISPs for local loop unbundling, TalkTalk criticised the price increases as unnecessary Read more

9 March, 2009 by David Meyer

EU visitors may face roaming price hikes

Analysts claim roaming caps could force operators within Europe to increase charges for visitors from the rest of the world Read more

16 April, 2007 by David Meyer

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