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How using GreenMinutes reduces your carbon emissions

The GreenMinutes initiative is supported by the CarbonNeutral Company – one of the world's leading carbon offset and climate consulting businesses.

Gamma's commitment to reducing carbon emissions began in 2006 with the early adoption of IP based soft-switching in their core network, marking the first major initiative of its kind in the UK and reducing energy consumption per minute by 30% within the first year. Soft-switching has allowed Gamma to move from a power-hungry hardware infrastructure to a more software driven environment which uses far less power. Continued investment in this technology has enabled them to reduce the mean power consumption per minute carried each year, even as call traffic has increased over the same time.

Annual power consumption against call minutes per month across Gamma’s network.

GreenMinutes graph

Now the combination of much lower annual power consumption with our carbon offset programme means that GreenMinutes customers are using the greenest network in the UK.

How using GreenMinutes reduces your carbon emissions

The GreenMinutes initiative is supported by the CarbonNeutral Company – one of the world's leading carbon offset and climate consulting businesses.

Gamma's commitment to reducing carbon emissions began in 2006 with the early adoption of IP based soft-switching in their core network, marking the first major initiative of its kind in the UK and reducing energy consumption per minute by 30% within the first year. Soft-switching has allowed Gamma to move from a power-hungry hardware infrastructure to a more software driven environment which uses far less power. Continued investment in this technology has enabled them to reduce the mean power consumption per minute carried each year, even as call traffic has increased over the same time.

Annual power consumption against call minutes per month across Gamma’s network.

GreenMinutes graph

Now the combination of much lower annual power consumption with our carbon offset programme means that GreenMinutes customers are using the greenest network in the UK.
 HOW IT WORKS
  • Making calls generates a small but significant carbon cost, in terms of energy used in running and cooling equipment.
     
  • If you select our competitively-priced GreenMinutes tariff, then you can offset this cost.
     
  • After you receive your monthly bill, we use an accredited process to calculate your carbon offset costs and we pay this to the CarbonNeutral Company. You pay nothing.
     
  • With your help, genuine eco projects receive financial support, thanks to your participation.

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  • Making calls generates a small but significant carbon cost, in terms of energy used in running and cooling equipment.
     
  • If you select our competitively-priced GreenMinutes tariff, then you can offset this cost.
     
  • After you receive your monthly bill, we use an accredited process to calculate your carbon offset costs and we pay this to the CarbonNeutral Company. You pay nothing.
     
  • With your help, genuine eco projects receive financial support, thanks to your participation.

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 ECO FRIENDLY FEATURES

In addition, signing up for GreenMinutes gives you a range of other benefits to help the environment: 
 

  • Electronic paperless billing - monthly telephony services are billed electronically. This bill is also available online and is updated on a daily basis. STL pledges not to generate any paper internally in the generation of your bill.
     
  • Direct debit paperless payment - GreenMinutes customers all pay by monthly direct debit. 
     
  • Free of charge connection of home workers – employees’ home lines can be provisioned to use the GreenMinutes carbon neutral network.
     
  • Free conference calls - free of charge access to our voice conferencing bridge that sits within the GreenMinutes network, so all calls across it are carbon neutral. 
     
  • Free use of video conferencing suite - concessionary rates on video conferencing equipment or free of charge use of our video conferencing suite in Oxford.
     
  • GreenMinutes certificate – GreenMinutes customers receive a wall mountable certificate recognising your contribution and confirming carbon neutral telephony.
     
  • GreenMinutes user button for your emails and website.

In addition, signing up for GreenMinutes gives you a range of other benefits to help the environment: 
 

  • Electronic paperless billing - monthly telephony services are billed electronically. This bill is also available online and is updated on a daily basis. STL pledges not to generate any paper internally in the generation of your bill.
     
  • Direct debit paperless payment - GreenMinutes customers all pay by monthly direct debit. 
     
  • Free of charge connection of home workers – employees’ home lines can be provisioned to use the GreenMinutes carbon neutral network.
     
  • Free conference calls - free of charge access to our voice conferencing bridge that sits within the GreenMinutes network, so all calls across it are carbon neutral. 
     
  • Free use of video conferencing suite - concessionary rates on video conferencing equipment or free of charge use of our video conferencing suite in Oxford.
     
  • GreenMinutes certificate – GreenMinutes customers receive a wall mountable certificate recognising your contribution and confirming carbon neutral telephony.
     
  • GreenMinutes user button for your emails and website.