Have you ever tried speaking to technical support at your broadband supplier? One of our readers recently told us of his experience with Talk Talk, running up a £60 mobile phone bill just trying to speak to them. But then the problem is not unique to that company. The author of this article once...
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Sometimes, a good business is built on one good idea. Perhaps it was skill, or perhaps it was luck, but the niche a company carves itself can propel it so far, but only for so long. Take Amazon. It’s good at selling books, we all know that. But what about expansion? Of late, profits...
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Is Four Play what the market wants? That’s broadband, fixed and mobile telephony, and TV? When Virgin Mobile and NTL first announced their plans to merge, analysts were cynical. It was a case of personal versus family. The choice of TV subscription, broadband supplier and fixed line telephony was a family decision. Mobile phones...
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Not everyone was convinced. Rumours had been circulating for some time of a boardroom rift, between BP’s chief executive Lord Browne, (who is 18 months from his 60th birthday) and its chairman Peter Sutherland. But yesterday, Lord Browne protested loudly and vehemently, if perhaps a little too much saying, ‘..reading the speculation about my...
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With a war going on in the Middle East, with the price of oil going through the roof, with interest rates on the rise globally, what does this widely read English newspaper decide to lead on? In spite of all the evidence to the contrary, it leads with following comment – ‘Record property prices...
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