Broadband and digital TV service TalkTalk has introduced a stealth £4 a month charge for users of its television platform, a so-called “access fee” that applies even to customers who don’t sign up for one of the service’s premium TV boosts.
Just as you’ve upgraded to the superfast speeds of fibre optic broadband, and gotten your head around why it’s different from ADSL or standard broadband, here comes the government pledging billions of pounds of public money to roll out full fibre internet to all homes by 2033.
When you sign up for a broadband package, you’ll receive your ISP’s branded router in the post, often with vague assurances that it’s “superfast” and “reliable.” But how well does your default router actually work?
Ofgem has appointed Big Six energy Scottish Power to take over the supply of 108,000 domestic and 21,000 business customers of Extra Energy, an energy market minnow that went bust last week.
“Abuse” of green energy schemes is costing the public purse millions of pounds a year, a whistleblower from Ofgem has claimed.
On the cusp of winter and impending higher energy bills, a total of 3 million UK households (11%) are already in debt to their energy supplier, a figure that has risen by 12%, or 300,000 homes, from October last year.
Vodafone’s internet division has reduced the monthly fee for their superfast fibre (FTTC) broadband—and requisite line rental—packages by £1.
The north of England could be at the centre of a clean energy revolution, but instead faces economic decline under the government’s current decarbonisation plans, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has warned.
A parliamentary group is urging the government to prioritise expanding 4G coverage in rural areas, worried they’ll be left behind in the push for the fifth generation mobile network (5G).
“Tens of thousands” of pay-as-you-go energy customers disconnected from their supplies last year because they couldn’t afford to top up the meter, Ofgem has revealed.
