Aggrieved Verastar customers make news in the media
Verastar Ltd / Verastaruk which includes Unicom, Kinex, Clear Business, Clear Business Water, Universal Debt Collection etc have made the news many times in the media
February 24 2020 Verastar
/ Clear Business Water get
another mention in Radio 4's You & Yours consumer programme when they
are named as being in the top 3 WORST water providers. Clear
Business Water is part of the Verastar Ltd Verastaruk group which includes
Unicom, Kinex, Woav, Insurance Octopus / Media etc etc The piece starts at 31 minutes into the programme
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Friday 17th January 2020 Anyone thinking about
using Unicom or any brand under the Verastar Ltd group for telephone,
Internet or utilities should first listen to today’s You & Yours
consumer programme on Radio 4. The Unicom Verastar piece starts 22:30 minutes into the programme
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17
October 2019 Run
a Small Business or SME? You
might want to listen to this - Adrian Goldberg Investigates small business
broadband and utilities provider Verastar, which runs Kinex, Unicom,
ClearBusiness and other brands.
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“Business
owner raging over £4k water bill for premises he can't access” “But
Kinex, a trading name of Verastar Ltd, just won’t back down. I’m fed
up explaining this.” Published
in the Daily Record 24 March
2019 |
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/authors/the-judge/campus-nightclub-owner-blazing-mad-14176794?fbclid=IwAR2U83tbomL5Ay-YRNLd-ObXw0oc5__h5zYcpA1Tl9MzpzLLgYGsks_l2ZM |
Water
company set debt collectors on Glasgow firm over mystery drainage bills Advertising
boss Roy McCallum was stunned when Clear Business began billing him for
the drainage of his company’s car |
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/business-consumer/water-company-set-debt-collectors-14145430?fbclid=IwAR2bVkcZwdGPBg7tnns7_amx6Sstv9ahpij4h1PGKHmVO0swcWIqil8s9v0 |
23 July 2018 (The Unicom piece is the lead story) | https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b0bbn6rm |
A
retired businesswoman is battling a £10,000 bill for a mobile phone she
barely uses. Rachel
Howkins, 70, was hit by the enormous charge after provider Unicom claimed
she had used more than 17 gigabytes of data |
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6
September 2017
Unicom
/ Kinex / Woav / Clear Business / Verastar Ltd are mentioned in Private
Eye in issue 1452 on page 7 |
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July 8 2017 - SKY NEWS - A
provider of telecoms and utility services to small businesses is dusting
off plans for a £500m stock market listing two years after it was fined
by regulators for misleading its customers. Sky News has learnt that the owner of Verastar - which was previously called Unicom - has lined up investment bankers at Jefferies to take the company public.
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Utilities firm Verastar revives £500m float after Ofcom fine. |
11 January 2016 |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06wc6qp |
30 July 2015 |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b063d55p |
29 July 2015 |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0639wy5 |
11 May 2015 |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05tkvk6 |
28 November
2014 |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04pvp7n |
19 November 2014 |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04pbmjb |
6
August 2014 |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04cf9gx |
4 June 2014 |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b045bss8 (The Unicom item starts at around 6.30 minutes) |
14 April 2014 |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b040hhnp |
BBC
TV Rip-Off Britain report about Unicom First Aired 1st October 2014
Rip-off Britain
(The Unicom item starts at around 32 minutes)
First aired 1st October 2014 |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04kft46 Rip-off Britain (The Unicom item starts at around 32 minutes) First aired 1st October 2014 |