The war in Iran increases telephone rates

Even the telephone ratesnot just fuels and energy. The crisis in the Middle East is pushing the main managers to review prices and communications to Italian customers are starting in recent daysprice increases which, for some offers, reach i +48 euros per year per user. Iliad has made it known that no increase has been planned.

He reports it Consumer training and research center (Crc)which carried out an in-depth investigation on the topic.

What happens to telephone rates

The price increases they concern both the landline telephone that that mobileinvolve different offers and the main ones telecommunications operators active in Italy, explains the Crc. For example Vodafone has informed on its website that starting from next April 30th for some customers of mobile network con rechargeable offers the monthly fee for the offer will increase by an amount between +0.95 and +3.99 euros per month. Similar decision of Fastweb which, starting from April, will increase the price of various offers landline and mobile for an amount between +1 and +3 euros per month.

Windtre instead informs that from May 16th some offers of mobile network will suffer an increase in the monthly cost of 2 euros (but with an increase of Gigabytes), while starting from 1 June 2026 the cost of the service of some offers of landline will be increased by 2 euros per month. Also Tim changes rates upwards for a multitude of offers, finds the Consumer Training and Research Center.

The most significant increases in tariffs

From 1 April the monthly price of some mobile offers for Rechargeable Customers will increase by 2 euros per month, while for other offers always by mobile network an identical increase will take effect from May 18th. From May 1st the monthly cost of some offers landline Tim will increase by an amount equal to +2.99 euros per month. Finally, between 26 April and 1 May, the prices of some offers in the range will rise TimVisionwhich will increase by an amount between +12 and +48 euros per year.

The operators’ justifications

“The operators justify such price increases con ‘economic needs connected to changed market conditions‘, demonstrating how the crisis in the Middle East is impacting ours economy touching every aspect of daily life of citizens – states the president of the scientific committee of C.r.c., Furio Truzzi -. Increases in tariffs which unfortunately, once triggered, will hardly be reversed even in the event of a return to normality, as we have seen following theRussian invasion of Ukraine“.