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Comparison of standard vs e-mail billing

Paper production has always been one of the predominant contributing factors to climate change due to the numerous environmental impacts throughout the fabrication process: from tree consumption and global deforestation, to energy intensive mill processing, to its disposal and decomposition in refuse heaps and landfills. This is why Unicom has chosen to offer its customers an e-billing service.

When taking into account that the paper industry is the single largest industrial consumer of water and uses more water to produce a tonne of product than any other industry on the planet, the environmental cost really begins to add up.

Transport of the wood and paper, often over large distances, including delivering the post itself adds further to the paper production process carbon footprint. When comparing the energy intensive processes involved in paper production opposed to the minimal energy necessary to provide e-billing, the only sensible option is to sign up to Unicom e-billing.

Standard billing process involves:

E-billing process involves:

What is a PDF?

A PDF is a document that will allow you to open and view an identical replica of your monthly invoice. To view the PDF you will need Adobe Acrobat. If you haven’t already installed Adobe Acrobat, simply click on get acrobat below for a simple download.

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E-billing FAQs

Benefits of e-billing

• It provides timely and secure delivery of your bills.
• Your bills and all of the information on your account are available at the touch of a button.
• Your bills are more accessible.
• Secure alternative to storage of paper.
• It reduces human intervention and therefore potential for data error.
• Reduces paper handling for staff.
• Simplifies the authorisation of invoices for payment.
• Avoids paper distribution and storage.
• You can choose to receive full itemisation free of charge! This would normally cost you £2.50 per month with paper invoicing.

Trees saved

Currently Unicom provides telephone services for around 70,000 business customers, each one of which requires a monthly invoice detailing their service charges. For each of those customers an average of 4 pages will be used in a monthly invoice including the envelope. This equates to using 280, 000 sheets of paper per month, and works out at over 3.3 million sheets of paper per year used on invoices alone.

Recent figures show that the average tree can produce 8333.3 sheets of paper*, which equates to 34 trees worth of paper used every month, or over 400 trees per annum. If every Unicom customer signed up for e-billing, trees covering an area the size of Trafalgar Square could be saved from deforestation every year.

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E-billing Itemisation

With Unicom e-billing you have the option to receive your monthly invoice in a fully itemised format, listing all calls made free of charge, an option normally costing £2.50 to customers who remain on standard paper billing. Not only will you be helping to reduce your carbon footprint, but also making a great monthly saving.