Auditel Consultant:
Nigel Collins

5 Live Investigates: Commercial Energy

23 Apr 2012 | Filed under: Energy

Here’s a link to a BBC Radio 5 Live Investigates podcast on Commercial Energy. It discusses alleged mis-selling of energy and the relationship with BES. 5 Live Podcast link Whilst I cannot comment on the allegations discussed in this podcast, (and you can draw your own conclusions), it is worth commenting that Auditel do come [...]

Shale Gas

10 May 2011 | Filed under: Energy

Gas prices have historically tended to track the price of oil. With prices so high now that extracting Shale gas from rock using the ‘fracking’ process has become viable, global gas prices are becoming de-coupled from oil prices. This was mentioned in presentations at the Energy Event that I attended last week in Birmingham. This [...]

Industry Tags: BBC, energy Event, fracking, greenhouse gas, methane, price of oil, shale gas

New Broadband Tax

28 Sep 2009 | Filed under: Telecommunications

The government has just announced that a new Broadband tax of 50p a month will apply to everyone with a phone line. It’s not clear from the BBC article how this will affect businesses. Would 50p be applied to each account, or each line? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8270772.stm It is being reported that the income from this tax may [...]

Industry Tags: ADSL, Auditel, BBC, Broadband, Broadband tax, business, business users, government, rural areas

T-Mobile and Orange in UK merger

15 Sep 2009 | Filed under: Telecommunications

It was reported last week that T-Mobile and Orange plan to merge their UK businesses, creating a mobile phone giant with 28.4 million customers. The BBC website reported: UK mobile phone operators would welcome consolidation in the sector said lawyer Chris Watson, of CMS McKenna, adding firms saw the current levels of competition as “ruinous” because [...]

Industry Tags: BBC, mobile networks, mobile phone costs, Orange, T-Mobile, T-Mobile and Orange Merger, UK merger