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A government bill aimed at conserving water could increase bills and threaten the security of water supplies, claimed Water UK, the industry’s representative body.
Preferred bidders for the London Underground public-private partnership scheme are expected to be announced within weeks, according to one of the shortlisted firms. But wrangles between the Greater London Authority and the government could delay this.
Around 85 per cent of application service providers (ASP) will fail to deliver service-level agreements to their customers because their own suppliers lack performance targets, according to IT analysts Gartner.
One-third of small and medium-sized enterprises said that is was simple to change their Internet service provider, claimed telecoms watchdog Oftel in a quarterly survey of 700 SMEs. Half of medium-sized companies have also changed mobile phone companies in an effort to get better coverage, service and support.
Swedish mobile phone company Ericsson is cutting 3,700 jobs in the UK and Sweden and is ending all mobile telephone production at its Worksop and Scunthorpe sites in a bid to save £1.4 billion a year. The group is outsourcing the manufacture of mobile phones to electronics specialist Flextronics. It is expected to source in eastern Europe or the Far East.