Ultra-Fast Broadband?
What's happening with ultra-fast broadband? It's only ten years ago that most of the United Kingdom was waiting with bated breath for ordinary broadband. The...
Is it Worth Changing Your Heating?
With utility charges of all kind going through the roof over the last few years, households throughout the UK are looking at many ways of lowering their cost...
Avoid Excessive Internet Charges on Your Mobile
Smartphones make it so convenient to browse the web on the move, but do you know exactly how much it’s costing you? If your mobile phone contract carries a...
Roaming Charges When Abroad
It’s reassuring to know you can keep in touch with family and friends wherever you are in the world, but take your mobile phone on holiday and you could fa...
Using Wi-Fi to Cut 3G Charges
Using your mobile phone to access the web requires a connection either across the mobile phone network (using 3G) network or through a wireless internet (Wi-...
Charging Electric Cars at Home
Electric cars are slowly edging their way into our lives. Hybrids are currently more popular although at the time of writing that means less than 2% of all v...
Underfloor Heating: More Efficient?
Underfloor heating has become the darling of the property and decorating programmes; it seems that almost every grand design isn't complete without it. As it...
Smart Meters in Every British Household?
The government has announced that smart meters will be installed in every home in the UK by 2020, but what is a smart meter and who will be paying for it? Wh...
Empty Property: Should I Pay Supply Charge?
Landlords' responsibilities for utility charges on empty properties are something of a grey area. The situation varies according to the utility in question,...
Making Phone Calls Over the Internet
Ever since broadband began to appear in the United Kingdom software companies and service providers have looked to use it for voice traffic as well as intern...