Your cell phone bill will soon affect your credit score, meet Experian Boost

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Your cell phone bill will soon affect your credit score, meet Experian Boost
Wrapped in a pretty marketing package, a new approach to determine your creditworthiness may now include your cell phone and utility bills. The credit score honchos from Experian - you know, the ones who sold consumer data that was subsequently leaked for 123 million US households just a year ago - are now prepared to stalk your monthly carrier and utility bill for data on how trustworthy you are. Oh, the irony.

The Marketed as Experian Boost, the tool will become active next year, and is apparently going to be a godsend for people who can't get loans or credit cards, at least according to Experian:


To participate in the credit bonanza, interested individuals will have to opt into the system, and allow Experian to access the bank accounts from which they pay cell phones, cable TV, landlines and other recurring bills. 

"This is about access to credit—not expansion of credit," according to Experian, but, given that the move will potentially give lenders the green light for additional loans to more than 47 million people in the US, your cell phone bill could soon be impacting your creditworthiness, too.

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