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Energy bills to rise for millions as impact of Iran war hits.Household energy prices will rise by 13% a year in July, as...
27/05/2026

Energy bills to rise for millions as impact of Iran war hits.

Household energy prices will rise by 13% a year in July, as soaring wholesale costs caused by the US-Israel war with Iran hit bills for the first time.

Regulator Ofgem says the war means a household using a typical amount of gas and electricity will pay £221 more a year, with an annual bill of £1,862.

The cap affects millions of homes on variable tariffs in England, Scotland and Wales, and suppliers are warning it could go even higher in the colder winter months without an end to the conflict.

Energy costs have been sent rocketing by Iran blocking the crucial Strait of Hormuz shipping route, through which a fifth of the world's oil and gas is carried, in response to the war.

The jump will equate to a rise of £18 a month for the average household using both electricity and gas, with households seeing an increase of 24% on their gas bills and 5% on their electricity bills.

The energy cap covers 33 million households in England, Wales and Scotland. Regulation and bills are different in Northern Ireland.

The cap fixes the maximum amount customers can be charged for each unit of gas and electricity via variable tariffs. About 40% of bill-payers have fixed tariffs and are unaffected because their price will not change until the end of their fixed term.

The cap has been illustrated by Ofgem, by calculating the annual bill for a "typical household" using 11,500 kWh of gas and 2,700 kWh of electricity a year with a single bill for gas and electricity, settled by direct debit.

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Your router has a setting that stops your TV from buffering — it's probably off.I have a fairly decent home internet con...
26/05/2026

Your router has a setting that stops your TV from buffering — it's probably off.

I have a fairly decent home internet connection. Not the fastest plan available, but more than enough for what I need, or at least that's what I thought. For a while, I kept running into the same annoying problem: my TV would start buffering right in the middle of something I was watching on Apple TV, even though nothing else seemed to be obviously hogging the connection. I'd check my phone, fine. My laptop, fine. But the TV? Spinning wheel of doom.

It took me longer than I'd like to admit before I figured out what was actually going on. The culprit wasn't my internet speed. It was a setting sitting right inside my router that I had never touched, and it turns out most people haven't either.

My router was treating every device like it deserved equal attention
Which sounds fair, until it really isn't

The setting in question is Quality of Service (QoS). Most modern routers have it, but it's almost always either turned off by default or left completely unconfigured. On the surface, the idea of equal treatment across your network sounds reasonable. Every device gets a fair slice of your bandwidth, right?

The problem is that not all internet traffic is created equal. When you're downloading a file in the background, a few seconds of delay doesn't matter. But when you're streaming a show on your TV, jumping on a video call, or playing a few rounds of Counter Strike 2 with friends, even a small bandwidth squeeze is immediately noticeable. Your router doesn't inherently know the difference; it just moves data. Without QoS, it happily hands bandwidth to whatever asks for it, regardless of how time-sensitive that traffic actually is.

So when my partner's laptop decided to pull a large update in the background while I was watching Shrinking on Apple TV, the TV got squeezed out. The router wasn't broken. It was just doing what it was told, which in this case was nothing particularly smart.

QoS changes that. It lets you tell your router what matters most, so streaming video, video calls, and gaming get priority over background tasks that can wait.

British Gas pays £20m over prepayment meter force-fitting scandal.British Gas has agreed to pay £20m into a redress fund...
15/05/2026

British Gas pays £20m over prepayment meter force-fitting scandal.

British Gas has agreed to pay £20m into a redress fund and compensate customers to settle an investigation by the energy regulator into the forced fitting of prepayment meters.

Ofgem found the company had "failed to meet the standards required" when installing the meters and had breached licence conditions specifically aimed at protecting customers in vulnerable situations.

Three years ago it emerged that debt agents working for British Gas had broken into the homes of vulnerable customers to fit prepayment meters.

British Gas has apologised, and the complete settlement package will cost the company up to £112m in payments, compensation and writing off customers' debt.

In 2023, the Times revealed how agents working for Arvato Financial Solutions, on behalf of British Gas, had forced their way into the home of a single father of three to install a prepayment meter.

After establishing the property was unoccupied, an undercover reporter observed the agents work with a locksmith to force their way in and install a meter.

The scandal was industry-wide: 40,000 customers had a prepayment meter installed without permission between 2022 and 2023.

Suppliers including EDF, E.On and Scottish Power have already agreed to pay compensation.

Ofgem investigated and subsequently banned the practice of fitting prepayment meters without customers' permission in high-risk households.

New UK broadband service offers millions superfast internet for just £21 – and you don't need full fibreVodafone has add...
14/05/2026

New UK broadband service offers millions superfast internet for just £21 – and you don't need full fibre
Vodafone has added a 5G internet service to its broadband portfolio – covering millions more homes.

Vodafone has launched a 5G Broadband service to provide full fibre-like speeds to homes that are unable to get full fibre internet itself.

This will open the door for around 3.7 million homes in the UK to get a better service.

VodafoneThree has expanded its broadband offering in the UK with a new 5G service designed for those unable to access full fibre.

The Vodafone 5G Broadband package provides full fibre-like speeds, but as it uses the provider's mobile network, it doesn't need to be installed or cabled into a property.

Vodafone 5G Broadband
Vodafone 5G Broadband: at Vodafone Ltd
From £21 per month over 24-months
Vodafone's new 5G Broadband service is capable of speeds up to 150 Mbps and doesn't require any cabling or installation. Just plug in the Power Hub and away you go.

The first offers speeds of up to 50 Mbps. This can be paid over a 24-month plan at the mentioned £21, or on a 30-day basis, for £30 per month.

Alternatively, step up the speeds and you can get 150 Mbps for just a pound or two more. It's priced at £22 per month over 24-months, or £32 per month on a 30-day rolling contract.

These are offered in addition to Vodafone's full fibre broadband plans, giving UK customers choice on the service that suits them (and their location) best.

Ovo sold to Eon and founder to net £300mCombined business to serve 9.6 million customers as bosses insist takeover is ‘n...
11/05/2026

Ovo sold to Eon and founder to net £300m

Combined business to serve 9.6 million customers as bosses insist takeover is ‘not about scale’

The founder of Ovo Energy is in line to land a £300m payday from Eon’s takeover of his company.

Stephen Fitzpatrick, who founded Ovo in 2009, will receive the sum after Eon said it would take on the home retail business of Britain’s fourth-largest gas and electricity supplier.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed, though it is thought to be worth close to £600m. Mr Fitzpatrick owns just under 50pc of the company and is still owed £30m under a licensing deal to use the Ovo brand.

The takeover will hand Eon an additional four million customers, bringing its total to around 9.6 million to overtake Octopus as the country’s largest energy supplier.

A former City trader, Mr Fitzpatrick has grown Ovo into one of Britain’s largest energy companies after acquiring SSE’s retail business for £400m in 2020.

However, the company has been beset with financial problems in recent years, posting a net loss of £135m in 2024.

Last year it warned that a “material uncertainty” clouded its future because it was having difficulty meeting financial resilience targets set by regulator Ofgem.

Major UK broadband provider teeters on edge of collapse as 250,000 homes at risk.A prominent UK broadband provider servi...
10/05/2026

Major UK broadband provider teeters on edge of collapse as 250,000 homes at risk.

A prominent UK broadband provider serving 250,000 customers is teetering on the edge of administration with £2.7million in debts. Pulse Fibre Ltd - which provides services to over 250,000 households - is battling for its survival. The broadband company is in crisis after accumulating millions of pounds in debt. It has filed a notice of intention to appoint administrators.

A MAJOR energy supplier is developing plans to combine with a rival company in a bid to create Britain’s largest energy ...
26/04/2026

A MAJOR energy supplier is developing plans to combine with a rival company in a bid to create Britain’s largest energy supplier.

If the plans go ahead, the merger between E.ON and rival Ovo Energy would create a group with a larger customer base than British Gas and Octopus Energy.

Meanwhile, other parties may still be interested in Ovo Energy, which has been trying to get cash or a sale of its retail business.

It has been reported that Utility Warehouse, are also interested in a deal with Ovo Energy.

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