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MSE News: Energy provider Utilita blocked 40,000 households from switching

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Utilita told to pay a penalty of £560,000 to customers and to a charity after Ofgem found it blocked users switching...
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Energy provider Utilita blocked 40,000 households from switching

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  • Consumerist
    Consumerist Posts: 6,311 Forumite
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    Between June 2010 and May 2015, Utilita wrongly stopped customers from switching to another provider. . .

    Utilita's response :-
    . . . we have taken quick and decisive action to update and improve our switching procedures.
    So quick and decisive, it took 5 years for Ofgem to take action.

    Proof, if any was needed, that Ofgem will only act when the actions/inactions of the energy suppliers embarrass them into doing anything. Customers are bottom of their list of concerns.

    Ofgem itself is a scandalously dysfunctional disorganisation. It's time it was disbanded.
    >:)Warning: In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
  • Pincher
    Pincher Posts: 6,552 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    It's not run by the North Koreans, is it?

    You don't want to run away.
    Stay and enjoy the safety and comfort of People's Republic of Utilita.
    :rotfl:
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