{"id":974311,"date":"2025-11-15T11:26:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T05:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=974311"},"modified":"2025-11-15T11:26:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T05:56:20","slug":"uks-biggest-mobile-companies-face-multi-billion-pound-lawsuit-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/15\/uks-biggest-mobile-companies-face-multi-billion-pound-lawsuit-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"UK\u2019s biggest mobile companies face multi-billion-pound lawsuit, here\u2019s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s largest mobile network providers are facing a \u00a33.2 billion ($4.29 billion) lawsuit for allegedly overcharging millions of loyal customers, after a London tribunal ruled on Friday (November 14) that a significant portion of the case can proceed to trial. Vodafone, BT&#8217;s EE, Telefonica&#8217;s O2 and Hutchison&#8217;s Three UK \u2013 whose $19 billion merger with Vodafone was approved last year \u2013 are accused of imposing a \u201cloyalty penalty\u201d on customers who remained with their networks after minimum contract periods expired.<\/p>\n<p>Lawsuit alleges \u2018loyal penalty\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s largest mobile network providers are facing a \u00a33.2 billion ($4.29 billion) lawsuit for allegedly overcharging millions of loyal customers, after a London tribunal ruled on Friday (November 14) that a significant portion of the case can proceed to trial. Vodafone, BT&#8217;s EE, Telefonica&#8217;s O2 and Hutchison&#8217;s Three UK \u2013 whose $19 billion merger with Vodafone was approved last year \u2013 are accused of imposing a \u201cloyalty penalty\u201d on customers who remained with their networks after minimum contract periods expired. Lawsuit alleges \u2018loyal penalty\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}