Sector · 22 companies · 4 battles · 3 VS

Your bills

The companies behind the bills you can’t avoid: energy, water, broadband, mobile and parking.

The biggest here by turnover is BT at £19.7bn, followed by British Gas at £14.5bn.

Battles

Energy suppliers

Full power, or running on empty?

British Gas · Octopus Energy · OVO Energy

3 COMPANIES

Water companies

In the flow, or in deep water?

Thames Water · Severn Trent · United Utilities · Anglian Water · Yorkshire Water · Southern Water · Wessex Water · South West Water · Welsh Water · Northumbrian Water

10 COMPANIES

Broadband and mobile

The strongest signal wins. Dropped connections lose.

BT · EE · Vodafone · Virgin Media O2 · Sky · TalkTalk · Hyperoptic · Community Fibre · CityFibre

9 COMPANIES

Parking companies

Pole position for one. A clamp for another.

ParkingEye · Euro Car Parks · Q-Park

3 COMPANIES

VS Series

BT v Sky

Broadband, TV and your monthly bill: who comes out on top?

Thames Water v Severn Trent

Same industry, same regulator, very different balance sheets

Octopus Energy v British Gas

Two energy suppliers compared on turnover, profit, payroll, balance sheets and control.

Companies

BT£19.7bn turnoverBritish Gas£14.5bn turnoverOctopus Energy£13.7bn turnoverSky£10.4bn turnoverVirgin Media O2£10.1bn turnoverEE£6.8bn turnoverVodafone£5.9bn turnoverOVO Energy£5.2bn turnoverThames Water£3.8bn turnoverUnited Utilities£2.6bn turnoverSevern Trent£2.6bn turnoverAnglian Water£2.1bn turnoverYorkshire Water£1.6bn turnoverTalkTalk£1.4bn turnoverNorthumbrian Water£1.0bn turnoverSouthern Water£993m turnoverSouth West Water£939m turnoverWelsh Water£916m turnoverWessex Water£691m turnoverCityFibre£134m turnoverHyperoptic£114m turnoverCommunity Fibre£112m turnover

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