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The cable firm, which supplies phone, broadband and TV to about 4m households, said its landline charge would rise by £1 a month to £16.99 from 1 February.
Its landline charge rises to £17.70 a month from £16.70, while its Simply broadband package jumps from £5 to £7.50 a month – just four months after it last increased that tariff.
United Kingdom Long-term BT customers in the UK on the basic home phone/unlimited broadband will soon pay £20.47 a month, plus a monthly landline charge of £17.99.
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Increases in landline charges have outstripped inflation in recent years.
Generally customers who pre-pay their annual landline charges have been hardest hit.
Landline charges have seen the biggest increases, as the telecoms companies have sought to make up lost calls income.
Last year, the Guardian highlighted the steep rise in landline charges in recent years that has massively outstripped inflation.
TalkTalk has announced price increases for around half of its customers, as part of a plan to simplify tariffs and do away with separate landline charges.
The company, which supplies 9.5m households said landline charges will rise by £1 a month, to almost £18, while the cost of the popular Anytime calls package is set to jump 50p a month to £7.95.
From December BT phone customers will being paying more than £200 a year in landline charges alone, although they can reduce this to £170 if they prepay for the year.
Lippert says that while the payments process through a landline is popular in Europe, the idea of landline charging is new in the U.S.
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