4 in 10 of us have ditched our mobile provider

Watchdog Ofcom has been taking a look at how much we’re spending on telecoms these days and rather happily has discovered we’re paying less but actually getting more for our money – we’re paying about £1.50 less than we were last year on our communications – mobile, broadband etc – and about £4.30 less than we were in 2004.

Here’s one of the reasons behind the drop, according to Ofcom:

Bargain hunting : An increasing proportion of us are switching between providers in order to get the best deal. By March 2008, 27 per cent of us had switched our internet provider at least once; 37 per cent had switched landline provider and 41 per cent had changed mobile provider.

Does this mean mobile operators will find new ways of feeling loved so we don’t switch provider, offering us tasty new services and great discounts, or just lock us into longer and longer contracts? I’ll let you take a guess…