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Post by birdseye on Mar 23, 2022 8:09:40 GMT
Dont know about you but I am getting price increases on almost everything at the moment. From marina fees to phone charges, Sky to craftsmen. It figures large in the media and as a retired businessman I do wonder just how much comes about because businessmen think " Joe Public is expecting price rises so we will increase our prices". Its certainly what would have gone through my mind were I not retired.
What do you think? Is it not a bit like " no women are safe on the streets" or " everyone has a mantal health problem" two other issues that figure high in the media
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Post by c-a-r-f-r-e-w on Mar 23, 2022 16:20:09 GMT
Dont know about you but I am getting price increases on almost everything at the moment. From marina fees to phone charges, Sky to craftsmen. It figures large in the media and as a retired businessman I do wonder just how much comes about because businessmen think " Joe Public is expecting price rises so we will increase our prices". Its certainly what would have gone through my mind were I not retired.
What do you think? Is it not a bit like " no women are safe on the streets" or " everyone has a mantal health problem" two other issues that figure high in the media
However much it might apply in this instance, I do think that in general there is a tendency among some to take advantage in the way you say. I had an early heads up about this as a boy, when seeing the impact of decimalisation on prices in the supermarkets. Something that had cost 7d the week before, suddenly cost 7p. Quite the increase. |
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Post by birdseye on Mar 24, 2022 8:00:33 GMT
Yes, my experience of decimalisation was the same as yours.
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Post by c-a-r-f-r-e-w on Mar 30, 2022 15:21:29 GMT
Yes, my experience of decimalisation was the same as yours. I did notice, as I got into my teens during Seventies inflation, that hifi didn’t seem to leap in price as much as some other things. Because for many it’s a more optional thing (though not so much for me!), and so if they put prices up too much, people may decide not to bother buying at all. Essentials is where they can take the mick more, which is why you tend to need a bit more state involvement in essentials. It can be in the interests of business to constrain supply to force prices up, as others on the board have noted. |
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Post by birdseye on May 12, 2022 19:41:05 GMT
As if to confim my suspicion, my Voda internet contract has gone up by 8%. This is from a business that uses little fuel, little fertilizer , little food basics and like as not has not given their staff an 8% pay increase. I am as sure as I can be without seeing their internal costs, that they are simply jumping on the bandwagon.
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Post by Danny on May 13, 2022 5:32:31 GMT
As if to confim my suspicion, my Voda internet contract has gone up by 8%. This is from a business that uses little fuel, little fertilizer , little food basics and like as not has not given their staff an 8% pay increase. I am as sure as I can be without seeing their internal costs, that they are simply jumping on the bandwagon.
"73% of the energy of the participating operators is consumed in the radio access network
(RAN). The network core (13%), owned data centres (9%) and other operations (5%)
account for the rest.
• In the markets covered, the primary energy efficiency ratio in the RAN reached 0.24
kWh/GB in 2020.
• In terms of secondary ratios, one mobile connection required an average of 14.8 kWh of
energy during the 12 months, while one network site used 28,665 kWh for the same period.
• 46% of total energy consumption was supplied by renewables, 43% from traditional grid
and 11% from diesel (which is more concentrated in developing regions where grid and
renewables access is less prevalent)
From a financial point of view, one network operator used 141 MWh of energy to
generate €1 million in revenue."
If we use the consumer cost of 30p per KWh, thats 141,000x0.3= £40,000 of electricity per £1 million of revenue, or 4%. I didnt see a comparison to their costs, but obviously a much high percentage.
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Post by birdseye on May 17, 2022 8:01:35 GMT
I oubt the relevance of those quoted numbers to Voda's cost of simply postboxing BT's network. I doubt that BT has to run diesel generators for example.But I remain convinced, perhaps by my own experience of running a decent sizes, that Voda's FD will have thought "its all in the news - we'll have some of that!".
We'll never know of course but its certainly what I would have done in his place.
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