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Energy companies are increasingly misleading consumers looking for cheaper energy bills. “Unfortunately, with the energy market getting going, we are seeing an increase in the number of reports of aggressive and misleading recruitment for new energy contracts,” said Edwin van Houten, consumer director at the ACM. “We are investigating companies that we receive a lot of complaints about.” For a …

Energy company Essent will significantly increase their variable rates for electricity and gas from 1 January. But due to the price cap introduced by the Cabinet, where the government will cover a portion of people’s energy bills, the impact of the rate increase will remain limited for most customers. Without the price cap in place, Essent’s price increase would mean …

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District heating suppliers have been warned not to put up the price of their services by more than 67% next year by markets regulator ACM. District heating companies are allowed by law to put up their prices in line with the cost of gas, but the ACM has told firms not to increase their charges by the maximum amount. Consumers …

Large supermarket chains increased the salaries of hundreds of thousands of employees by 2.5 percent this month, even though they haven't yet reached a collective bargaining agreement with the trade unions. The negotiations for a new collective agreement for supermarket employees started in September, but stalled over the wage increase. According to a spokesperson, the union is having a hard …

Netherlands residents used over 200 billion MB of mobile data in the first quarter of this year, an increase of nearly 35 percent compared to last year, the Dutch authority on consumers and markets ACM announced. In the first three months of this year, Netherlands residents used 214 billion MB of mobile data, 34.5 percent more than the 159 billion …

Mobile data use up 18%; biggest ever recorded increase