Mobile phone costs

Mobile company Giffgaff has been fined £1.4 million today after an error in its billing system meant about 2.6 million customers were overcharged by almost £2.9 million.

Pay-monthly EE customers will have to pay more for calls and texts not included in their plans from August, as the mobile giant has announced it's hiking out-of-bundle prices.

Tesco Clubcard customers can now use vouchers to buy or reduce the cost of new pay-monthly phones with Tesco Mobile.

Virgin Mobile customers who were affected by Tuesday's outage will be offered free data or a day's refund of airtime charges, the firm has announced.

The price of making an international call from the UK to another EU country will be capped at around 20p/min from today – but you're still likely to be able to save by calling via the internet.

Mobile operator Giffgaff is increasing the price of its two cheapest pay-as-you-go bundles, known as goodybags, while increasing the number of calls they include.

Vodafone customers on pay-monthly mobile contracts and mobile broadband contracts will see a 2.5% price rise from next month.

About 250,000 Virgin Mobile customers will see their bills rise from April as part of a tariff shake-up, with some reporting hikes of up to £150 – but if you're affected, you can leave penalty-free or haggle down your bill.

O2 and Three will increase prices for their pay-monthly mobile customers by 2.5%, after EE confirmed it would be hiking prices by 2.7%. 

EE customers on monthly mobile contracts will be hit with a 2.7% price rise next month.