eZe-Talk reconfirmed their status once again today as one of the fastest growing independent telecom service providers in the UK after having been named for the third year running in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in Europe, Middle East and Africa.

To add to this success, eZe-talk were also named as a winner in the prestigious Deloitte Fast 50 as North of England’s Regional Winner

Steve Walsh, one of eZe-Talk’s founding directors, has said about the Deloitte Fast 500 Award: “We’re not in business to win awards but the great thing about the Deloitte awards is that it is recognition from respected and independent industry experts who understand that achieving such levels of growth over a five year period – especially in the midst of a recession – is not just about acquiring new customers.”

Come read more about eZe-Talk’s success stories!

Deloitte Winners 2011

Crewe Chronicle: Growing Crewe telecoms firm wins national award

Fast Recruit: One of Deloittle’s Fast 50 companies is about to recruit

eZe Talk is the regional winner in the North of UK and is now ranked 15 within the Deloitte Fast 50 across the whole of the UK

“The tough economic climate has made growing a business challenging for many businesses, but for UK telecoms provider eZe-Talk, it has made the process of acquiring new customers a little easier.

“We provide broadband and telephone services to consumers and small businesses, and sometimes it can be hard to get people to seriously consider switching providers, because it seems like a hassle” says Mike Taitt, group chief executive. “However, in the current climate, people are a lot more inclined to listen to you, and take action, when you can save them a few pounds a month on their bill.”

The Crewe-based company has found being based in the North of England is an advantage because overheads are lower, although recruitment remains a challenge in some areas. “Finding telesales staff is sometimes easier in cities where you have a lot of young people, but we aren’t finding it a big problem so far.”

eZe-Talk was funded by its two founders and two other private investors, and has funded additional growth using bank financing. The company would be interested in acquisitions but Taitt admits that any ambitions are frustrated by the lack of available bank funding for fast-growing companies.

Instead, the company has focused on investing in its underlying technology and processes, to create a solid platform for expansion. For example, eZe-Talk has developed its own business management system which automates many of its routine business processes, from customer acquisition and throughout their lifecycle, driving efficiency and allowing the company to offer a more flexible product portfolio. The completed system will also be available for re-sale to businesses with similar needs.

“We’ve recently added mobile telecoms to our product portfolio so this can be packaged along with broadband and fixed-line services, and invoiced on a single bill, which is very attractive to customers,” says Taitt.

The biggest challenge on the horizon for eZe-Talk is how the company raises its profile to continue its growth. To date, the company has relied on word of mouth and telesales to acquire new customers, but they now need to start investing in marketing, PR and creating a public profile. “It will be a little difficult because we’ve always gone direct to the market, but we have to keep reinventing ourselves and raising our profile to continue to grow” says Taitt.”  Source: Deloitte Case Study: eZe-Talk

At a time when the cost of living is on the increase it is reassuring to know that your decision to switch phone providers means not only will you save money but that from now on the cost of your phone calls is guaranteed never to increase.

At eZe-Talk we know it’s not just about saving money and that is why our dedicated team make it their goal to provide you with the highest levels of service and support.

We are proud to be one of the fastest growing independent telecoms providers in the UK but we are not resting on our laurels and continue to strive to deliver the best possible service at the best possible price.

Thank you once again for considering eZe-Talk.

TalkTalk has become the latest telecoms company to put its prices up, with customers facing a 9.5% rise in line rental charges from 1st October 2011.

The standard line rental charge will rise by £1.20 to £13.80 a month, but the price of UK calls will remain the same at 7.6p a minute during the day.

Why switch to eZe-Talk?

• You can save money by switching – fact: We try and keep things simple here at eZe-talk: one price for your calls and line rental. Just by joining eZe Home, you are paying less than BT’s Standard Line Rental and Talk Talk’s standard line rental charge alone! With our price guarantee on calls and other savings on dialing international destinations, by joining us you can save even more.

• It’s so easy to join eZe-talk: Your number doesn’t change and you don’t need to change your phone. If your phone contract is about to renew, eZe-talk’s dedicated switching team will take care of the rest. Or if you are contract, and want us to contact you nearer the time, why not email us for a callback?

Yet again, BT has announced a price rise of 5%:

• UK landline calls will go up from 7.6p a minute to 7.95p a minute.
• Evening UK calls will go up from 1p a minute to 1.05p a minute.
• Standard Line Rental goes up from £13.90 to £14.60 a month.
• Unlimited Anytime Plan goes up from £4.70 to £4.90 a month

Join eZe-talk today!

• Inclusive weekend and evening – standard: You only get free evening calls with BT with your basic line rental so why pay for a call when you can get it for free?
• You can save money by switching – fact: We try and keep things simple here at eZe-Talk: one price for your calls and line rental. Just by joining eZe Home, you are paying less than B.T’s Standard Line Rental alone! With our price guarantee on calls and other savings on dialing international destinations, by joining us you can save even more.
• It’s so easy to join eZe-Talk: Your number doesn’t change and you don’t need to change your phone. If your phone contract is about to renew, eZe-Talk’s dedicated switching team will take care of the rest. Or if you are contract, and want us to contact you nearer the time, why not email us for a callback?

eZe-Talk values our independence…

With 12 years experience within the UK telecoms market, eZe-Talk is an independent firm looking to offer fantastic packages on broadband and cutting telephone bills for our customers.

By working with network partners, eZe-Talk provides our customers with the latest products, at the cutting edge of today’s telecoms technology, at affordable prices.

eZe-Talk values the service we deliver…

To ensure you receive the best service for your telephone line, eZe-Talk guarantees any faults will be handled promptly by our UK based technical support team and that engineers from Openreach (a BT business) will carry out any repairs to the line that are required.

eZe-Talk values our customers…

Unlike other providers, eZe-Talk guarantees that the prices we charge our customers for our calls will never increase for as long as they remain a customer.

Our mission is to lower your telephone and broadband bills and, if by switching, your bills have increased instead of decreased, eZe-Talk are willing to refund the difference.

It’s one of the reasons why eZe-Talk is one of the fastest growing independent telephone and broadband service providers in the UK.

eZe Talk releases a Facebook page to start getting customers to talk to us online and also spread new events happening in Crewe in regards to eZe-Talk themselves.

eZe-Talk reconfirmed their status again today as one of the fastest growing independent telecom service providers in the UK having been named for the second year running in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 EMEA pre-eminent technology awards programme is a ranking of the fastest-growing technology companies based on percentage revenue growth over five year.

Source: Deloitte Winners 2010

ITN and The BBC and other national news sources revealed today that BT customers will have to pay 10 per cent more for phone calls from their landline.

Millions of BT customers will have to pay 10% more for phone calls from their landline, and BT monthly line rental charges are increasing by 50p from the beginning of October. The cost of connecting a call will also go up from 9.9p to 10.9p, while the daytime rate rises from 5.9p to 6.4p per minute.

B.T. have recently EXCLUDED evening calls from their entry level call packages and these calls are now charged at 1.5p per minute, so the combined effect of these price increases will see the average customer actually paying in excess of 10% more.

The BT price increases mean that eZe-Talk will now be 12.5% cheaper on line rental charges and 25% cheaper on calls made outside of the package and call
connection charges.

As eZe-Talk does not charge for evening calls in our call packages we are effectively 100% cheaper on these calls compared to BT.

eZe-Talk has always given our customers the guarantee never to increase the prices charged for their landline calls as long as they remain a customer.

So, fortunately, the only impact the BT price rise will have on our existing customers is that they will now be saving even more money compared to BT.

eZe-talk will NOT be increasing charges for line rental or call charges to new customers either, plus we’ll continue to include free evening calls in all our call packages, backed by the same no price increase guarantee.

This makes eZe-talk considerably cheaper than BT.

There couldn’t be a better time to be or become an eZe-talk customer!

Compared to B.T, eZe-Talk Customers save…

• 12.46% on line rental including free evening and free weekend calls
• 25% on calls made outside of call packages
• 32% on broadband
• 82% on calls to the USA
• 88% on calls to Australia and 41% on calls to mobile phones in Australia

Click here and check our comparison sheet and see the difference!

As a result of our lawyers action Global House Europe have agreed to cease trading under the Max Talk brand and allow any customers acquired by them under the Max Talk brand to return/remain with their previous supplier or transfer to eZe-Talk if they wish.