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On 11th of May 2011, the governor of the Bank of England, warned:  “Gas prices may rise by 15% and electricity prices by 10% by winter 2011″

That’s on top of the 15% increases we have already seen this year.

In line with this, Scottish Power have just announced domestic price rises of 19% for gas and 10% for electricity effective from the 1st August.

This will result in a average increase of £170 for a household, pushing a bill from £1,150 to £1,320.

Wholesale Energy prices are around 25% higher than this time last year.  Pink Connect predicted these increases and we have helped lots of customers to make substantial long term savings.

Renewals

If you have received your Renewal Letter from your existing supplier you need to act now as increases in price can now happen on a daily basis. Contact us with the details from your last electricity or gas bill. We will advise you of the best deal for your business and how you can make long term savings.

Even if your contract is not due for renewal, if you provide us with your renewal date we will also insure you do not get “Rolled Over” at uncompetitive prices.

Business Energy

We can provide you with independent advice to assist you in making substantial savings on your gas and electricity costs, as well as protect your business from the forecast long term price increases.

Provide prices that are often considerably lower than those offered by your existing supplier for the renewal of your supply contract. We help thousands of businesses cut their utility costs every year!

The other big suppliers are likely to follow suit, with widely reported comments by British Gas and SSE that current consumer prices do reflect market conditions and will need to rise ‘later this year’.

Insure that your business never “Rolls Over” into a new contract at expensive rates without having a choice.  Interested? Please get in touch click here, or give us a call.

We are here to help…

According to the latest report by ‘billmonitor’, created and run by Oxford University mathematicians, UK Mobile users are wasting £4.9bn a year on the wrong mobile tariff!

At Pink Connect, we have always said that 82% of business mobile customers are on the wrong tariff. Billmonitor says this percentage is 76% for all mobile customers.  Since it doesn’t take data and text into consideration this figure could have been higher!

Due to fear of going above the allowance offered in their tariffs (named as “bill shock”), customers typically bought FOUR times more talk time that they actually used.

The report claims that if everyone used the right tariff, the UK could stop wasting £4.9bn a year that is being spent on wrong tariffs. The task of choosing right tariff is difficult as there are over 8m contract permutations available to mobile customers!

You can read full story on this on BBC website by clicking on the following link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12996175

At Pink Connect, we offer FREE mobile bill analysis and advice to select the best suitable tariff for your business. We are committed to bringing down the wasted £4.9bn spent on wrong tariffs!

About the blog author: Raj Deokar, is the director of Pink Connect (Northampton) Ltd.  Raj has got over 13 years experience in Telecommunications.

You can reach Raj Deokar on 01604 217271.

Rajendra Deokar of Pink Connect Northampton has helped Richard Alton of Rialto Health & Safety make a good start this new year:

Richard says, “Raj explained the cost savings in simple terms and showed the comparison against my existing supplier.The 50% saving was a very pleasant surprise.  The switch over was trouble free and there have been no problems so far at all – excellent service!”

power costs keep going up. This no idle threat. Here are some real and up-to-the-moment examples of huge increases

Businesses are tied into contracts for Electricity and Gas supply for up to three years. At the end of your contract your supplier has the right to “roll you over” into another two year contract at price of their choosing! Do nothing and your bills will soar.

Unfortunately, we have some customers who have been caught out this way:

• a hospitality customer has just been rolled over to more than double the best rates we quoted
• we saw an electricity bill from a customer who had been rolled.  It was obvious what had happened when we saw the bill.  April 10p per unit, May 10p per unit, June 15p per unit.
• just last week, 7 days elapsed between an orginal quote and agreeing the contract and in that week the 3 year pricing went up by 10% – about £1100pa for this customer. Happily we were able to find them a better contract which will start February 2011.

It seems that about 700,000 businesses are rolled over every year. Don’t let it happen to you.  Let us know if you require help

Andy Moore (Pink Connect Bristol) has words of encouragement for us all – especially on these dark, cold mornings:

“I have been networking like mad over the last 3 weeks. Last week I did 4 consecutive morning meetings!  By the last one I was ready to turn the alarm off, roll over and go back to sleep.

However as I was substituting at a different BNI group I had to be there and I am glad I made the effort.

I had only been there a few minutes when the owner of a local business asked me if I could help her sort out her telecoms.  Obviously I was happy to do this & within an hour of arriving back at my office I received a call asking for an appointment on Monday.

On Monday I got hold of copies of all of their phone bills and made further enquiries with the incumbent supplier including getting a £300 overcharge credited back!

We are now going to provide her with 2 broadband connections and 5 lines.

I am so glad that I dragged myself out of bed because you just never know who might be wanting our services. Bring on those morning sessions!”

Editor’s note: The phrase “the early bird catches the worm” means success comes to those who prepare well and put in effort. It was first recorded in John Ray’s A collection of English proverbs 1670, 1678: “The early bird catcheth the worm.”

Following up on a conversation at a recent networking event, Pink Connect (Bournemouth) is delighted to have helped independent financial advisors, Heritage Investments improve the quality of their calls.

Heritage Investments were experiencing problems with their VOIP (Voice over IP) telephone system. Upon visiting their office it quickly became apparent that they were running  5 phones  and data traffic down one broadband connection. This was causing issues with call quality.

Further, upon analysing the monthly bill it was clear that by switching to Pink Connect a 20% saving could be achieved on lines, calls and broadband charges!

Pink Connect proposed a separate broadband line for the phone traffic and an upgrade to the handsets so they would be compatible with the Feature Plus platform.

Once the system was installed and the broadband connection had stabilised the quality of the calls improved. The team was also trained to access and use the feature plus web site, this means that the telephone system is now running in a way that suits each individual phone user and Heritage Investments’ customers

Original article from BBC Newsbeat

People on mobile phone contracts are wasting £800 million every year because they are on the wrong tariff.

New research from price comparison site Top10.com claims that if people switched to contracts that suited them better they could save £62 a year.

It’s being put down to users either not making the most of their monthly deals in terms of calls, texts and data downloading or going over their minutes and being charged extra.

There are also claims that with so many deals, on different length contracts, people can often get confused and end up not sure which one would work best for them.

To avoid paying more than you need the advice is to check old bills before signing on to any new tariff, especially as many contracts now last up to two years.