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Summer? What summer??
08 Sep 2010 | Filed under: Cost Management, ProcurementAnother summer came and went and I wonder how I managed to miss it again. Not that I’m complaining you understand but July and August go past in a blur as I prepare every year for the Great British Energy Contract Renewal Season. In the past eight weeks I have reviewed, tendered and negotiated no fewer than 26 [...]
Orange and T-Mobile join networks
06 Sep 2010 | Filed under: Industry CommentThe merger between Orange and T-Mobile will soon show tangible benefits for their 30 million customers in the UK. The merger (the new company being rebranded as “Everything Everywhere”) makes Orange/T-Mobile the largest mobile phone operator in the UK. From 5th October, Orange and T-Mobile customers with 2G phones will find that their mobiles will automatically [...]
Half our waking hours are spent using media and communications
20 Aug 2010 | Filed under: Industry Comment, TechnologyWe are spending 45% of our waking ours using media and communications according to Ofcom research. That includes watching TV and using mobiles and other communications devices. We are sending four times as many texts than in 2004 and spending almost a quarter of our time on the internet and scoial networking sites. We watch 3 [...]
Rule change allows councils to sell renewable power
13 Aug 2010 | Filed under: Efficiency savings, Industry CommentIt had to come eventually. With so much pressure on local authority funding, Councils have been looking at a number of revenue generating schemes to balance their books. Swindon Borough Council have been working in partnership with a local company to set up and operate a free wi-fi network in the town and now we [...]
Broadband speeds improve – but there’s still a way to go …
06 Aug 2010 | Filed under: Industry Comment, TechnologyOfcom reckons that the UK’s average actual fixed line residential broadband speeds have increased by over 25% over the past year from 4.1Mb to 5.2Mb per second. Pressure from internet service providers (ISP) who are claiming ever faster speeds in their packages may have something to do with this trend but there is a growing [...]
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