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The effect an individual company would have on CPI is negligible. Besides, CPI strongly underestimates the actual devaluation of currency. You can look up local newspaper prices from 10 years ago and today and compare that to newspapers index that goes into the CPI calculation and I'm almost sure the price difference would be significantly larger compared to that skewed statistic.



It's not individual companies though; in fact I think every telco includes that same RPI + {X}% increase in their contracts.




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