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Telecom Plus - Conditions still tough

September 2016

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Market conditions have been tough going for utilities re-seller Telecom Plus and this has been borne out by full year results showing revenues, pretax profit and eps rising modestly by 2%, 4% and 7% respectively to £745m, £54.4m and 56.7p. The bugbear has been that falling energy prices have encouraged competition to use the higher margins earned on legacy customers to cross-subsidise the costs of attracting new customers with super low initial deals. This isn’t sustainable in the long term as rivals (particularly new entrants) are losing money, although disappointingly the Competition & Markets Authority refused to address this issue in its latest review.Telecom Plus have refused to play this game directly in ...

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Telecom Plus - Conditions still tough

September 2016

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