During the second quarter of the year, cable giant Virgin Media lost 27,000 customers, research has unveiled. However, the majority of these customers were low-value buyers of prepaid mobile services and commodity broadband. The company also highlighted that it had pushed the average customer’s spend to a record high with the average revenue per user [...]
Disney-owned ESPN has won the bidding war for broadcasting rights and secured the two remaining packages which comprise the 46 matches for the 2009/10 season and 23 matches per season from 2010/11 to 2012/13. The games will be shown on Saturday afternoons and Monday evenings – both packages will be sold to customers via BSkyB. [...]
It has emerged today that the Scottish Premier League (SPL) has pulled the plug on its live football deal with struggling Irish pay-TV sports broadcaster Setanta. The news comes after the English Premier League terminated its 46-match deal last week after the company missed a payment of £10 million. Setanta therefore lost its rights to [...]
It was announced over the weekend that Irish pay-TV sports broadcaster Setanta had been unable to meet its financial obligations and had therefore lost its rights to broadcast 46 Premier League football matches next season. As a result, broadcasters are now putting together bids for the live games and have a deadline of later today. [...]
Irish pay-TV sports broadcaster Setanta has been told to pay £30 million by Friday 19 June or lose its rights to broadcast 46 live football matches next season. The English Premier League has told the struggling broadcaster to meet its financial obligations or it will sell the rights. In a statement, the Premier League said [...]
Irish pay-TV sports broadcaster Setanta is on the brink of administration after BSkyB refused to provide a £50 million lifeline. BSkyB’s chief executive, Jeremy Darroch, said that they had been “talking to Setanta, and trying to work with them and help them”, however, an agreement was not reached. BSkyB was also reported to say it [...]
Carphone Warehouse has today agreed to purchase Tiscali’s UK business for £236 million. According to Charles Dunstone, Carphone’s chief executive, the deal will make his TalkTalk landline business the UK’s largest home broadband provider – with 4.25 million subscribers. The deal might also pave the way for the much talked about spin-off of TalkTalk from [...]
BSkyB has reported a 7 percent increase in adjusted revenues for the last 9 months with adjusted operating profit increasing by 13 percent to £589m, as the company added a further 80,000 new customers in the first quarter of this year and 243,000 customers opted for the Sky+HD package. Despite the company saying that the [...]
After the failure of BSkyB to negotiate a successful deal with Tiscali, Carphone’s TalkTalk home broadband is hoping to be able to secure the Italian company for a bargain price. Having been in trouble for months, the internet company had initially placed the UK business up for sale for £500m, but BSkyB only offered to [...]
M&S Money launches 3% cash ISA
M&S Money has launched an Advantage Cash ISA paying 3 per cent, and which allows transfers in from other ISAs. It can be opened with a minimum deposit of £100 lump sum followed by minimum monthly deposits of £25. The 3% rate is variable, but there is no short-term bonus so the return won’t plummet [...]
Google suspends UK Compare Mortgages site
Google has closed its UK mortgage comparison site which it launched in July last year, after it proved to be less popular than expected. Mortgage comparison sites are designed to allow visitors to compare mortgages quickly and easily without having to visit each lender’s individual site. Google was competing with several well-established comparison sites, including [...]
AA launches ‘black-box’ policy for young drivers
The AA is launching an innovative car insurance policy called Drivesafe which could help younger drivers save up to £850 a year. Younger drivers already pay substantially higher premiums than other motorists and these costs are increasing. A new study by Confused.com suggests insurance costs for younger driver have gone up by 5.7 per cent [...]
ATOL scheme updated to protect online bookers
ATOL, a financial protection scheme managed by the Civil Aviation Authority, is being extended to protect up to six million more holidays a year. The scheme ensures that holiday makers do not lose out financially if a travel company collapses, and that they are not stranded abroad. An increase in the number of holidays booked [...]
Home repossessions lowest for four years
The number of UK homes repossessed fell to 36,200 in 2011, significantly below the Council of Mortgage Lenders’ forecast of 40,000, and lower than 2010 when 37,100 homes were repossessed. With interest rates remaining low and lenders adopting a sympathetic attitude to customers in financial difficulty, repossessions fell to their lowest level since 2007. However, [...]
Monthly pay lasting just 17 days
Workers are running out of money just 17 days after receiving their monthly pay, according to new research by the Halifax bank. This means that the average UK worker spends half the month worrying about money. The study, based on the responses of more than 2,000 adults, found that 10 per cent of workers start [...]
Women disadvantaged by auto-enrolment changes
Government proposals to increase the auto-enrolment threshold to £10,000 could put 1.8 million women at risk of missing out on a pension, the TUC has warned. Under the auto-enrolment scheme, which will be phased in from October, private sector employers will automatically enrol workers between the age of 22 years and the state pension age, [...]
Emergency household repairs company Homeserve is taking longer than expected to get back on track after its operations were suspended last October. The company expected customer numbers to fall by 5% this year but it has increased this estimate to 8% and announced the loss of 200 jobs. It estimates that renewal revenue in 2013 [...]
Sale rumoured for Yorkshire and Clydesdale banks
There is growing speculation that National Australia Bank (NAB) may sell Yorkshire Bank and Clydesdale Bank after the Australian parent company announced a strategic review of the two banks’ operations. The Australian economy is performing well and NAB reported strong profits for the final quarter of 2011 but with the UK economy at a virtual [...]
More women experiencing debt difficulties
Women in Debt, which offers female-focused debt advice, has warned that the number of UK women facing serious debt has grown significantly over recent years. The organisation believes that more women will need advice on solving debt problems in the future because they are building up an unsustainable level of indebtedness. Women in Debt’s director, [...]
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