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TalkTalk's free local calls could save BT customers £448m
TalkTalk introduces free local calls anytime while 11.8m BT customers still pay for them BT customers could save a total of £448m on their phone bills if they all switched to TalkTalk, the home phone and broadband company, according to the firm.
npower launches search for Britain’s Bright Ideas
Have you designed the world’s first clockwork toaster? Or designed an anti-standby device in your own home? Then npower needs you!
Scottish Power challenges EON's fixed tariff dominance
Gareth Kloet, head of utilities at Confused.com, comments on Scottish Power's recently launched Online Energy Saver 5 tariff: "Scottish Power has released a new capped tariff which is set to rival EON's competitive Fixed Online energy tariff.
The simple life is back as Brits say no frills, no problem
Britons are adopting a ‘no frills' lifestyle to combat the credit crunch and shunning flashy or complicated purchases to make their money go further, new research from Abbey Credit Cards has revealed.
Home phone giants still letting customers down
The latest uSwitch.com Home Phone Customer Satisfaction Report, based on the responses of over 12,000 home phone customers, reveals a reversal of fortune for the UK's home phone industry.
UK broadband customers name favourite providers
A record number of over 10,000 people have given their opinion of their broadband provider in the latest Broadband Customer Satisfaction Survey from BroadbandChoices.co.uk.
Recession hits Britain's pockets town by town
uSwitch.com's regional recession index reveals that the global economic meltdown is not a level playing field in Britain as every location has a different story to tell. Swindon has been ranked the hardest hit area in the country with unemployment soaring by 197% following the closure of several large manufacturing plants in the area.
Net knows best for modern mums
Modern motherhood is as much characterised by social networks and online communities as traditional coffee mornings and conversations across the washing line, according to research out today from Post Office Broadband.
35 million Brits now barter for a bargain
New research amongst uSwitch.com's Consumer Opinion Panel reveals that, in the current belt-tightening climate, just under three-quarters (73%) of UK adults are increasingly loathed to pay full price and are casting off their British reserve to haggle for a better deal on consumer goods.
BT's new broadband package a ‘consumer friendly move’
The new BT home and mobile broadband package, announced today, sets out to be the cheapest bundle of its kind and is a consumer friendly move, says uSwitch.com, the independent price comparison and switching service.
BT launches UK's cheapest home and mobile broadband package
BT has launched the UK’s cheapest home and mobile broadband package from just £15.65 a month. BT Total Broadband customers can now get up to 8Mb wireless broadband at home as well as free 1GB monthly usage on our mobile broadband , with the total costing as little as £308.08 over 18 months.
Recycle your old phone and ring in the pounds
Six months on from moneysupermarket.com's first annual ‘National Recycle Your Phone Week', savvy moneysupermarket.com users have recycled almost 20,000 old mobile handsets, making an average of £43 per person.
Hospital car parking fees top the list of life’s biggest injustices
Having to pay and display whilst visiting loved ones in hospital is life's biggest injustice payment according to research by The Co-operative ISA's.
Cutting down on the cost of taking a shower
The energy efficiency arm of performance improvement company Grass Roots, has teamed up with eaga, the UK’s leading provider of residential energy efficiency solutions, in an initiative to distribute free shower attachments – known as an eaga ShowerSmart – to any household in Britain that requests one.
Help is here for the mobile addict
Whilst we’re all familiar with the age old problem of forgetting our keys or wallet, new research out today from Post Office Telecoms shows that the mobile phone is now firmly established as a 21st century morning must-have tool.