Cell Phone Contracts in Austria to Become More Expensive From April

More+More+ ♦ Published: March 14, 2023; 22:30 ♦ (Vindobona)

Existing cell phone contracts will become up to 11.5 percent more expensive for many customers in April. Drei and A1 have already confirmed price increases in charges, the Chamber of Labor (AK) said in a press release.

According to the Chamber of Labor, many mobile service contract customers will see their existing contracts increase in April. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / Kārlis Dambrāns / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)

Inflation is now also hitting phone calls and surfing in full. Many cell phone contracts contain value retention or index adjustment clauses that allow cell phone providers to adjust certain charges to the consumer index.

The Chamber of Labor has already requested information from Austria's largest telecommunications carriers. According to AK, Drei and A1 confirmed the price…