Mobiles

O2's eight million pay-monthly customers will be hit by a price rise of 2.7% from March – and if you're one of them, there's little you can do to leave your contract penalty-free as the firm has sneaked around new Ofcom rules.

If you're calling customer service helplines to complain, you soon won't be faced with costly premium rate numbers under a Government crackdown.

Mobile phone users are to be protected from "shock bills" if their handsets are stolen, with a new cap on the maximum cost of calls they will be expected to pay for.

Some T-Mobile customers are in line for refunds after winning a campaign over incorrect price rises which were applied earlier this year.

Energy, mobile phone, credit card and current account providers may be forced to give customers the information they hold on them in future, so consumers can use the details to make better decisions about cutting costs and managing money.

UK regulators are teaming up with counterparts in the USA and Canada to crack down on 'spoof' calls from telemarketing schemes.

If you've bought any online texts from O2, use them now or lose them – because the provider is scrapping its online text messaging service next month.

Games firms shouldn't pressure children into spending money when playing online games on phones and tablets, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) says.