Home » UK ISP News Archive » Article Tag: TalkTalk (934 Posts)

Articles for Category Tag - TalkTalk

Tesco Finally Scraps Email After Broadband ISP Closure in 2015

18th April, 2018 (0 Comments)

The Tesco.net email service, which was retained after Tesco’s broadband customers were sold to TalkTalk in 2015 (here), will be closed down for good on 27th June 2018. Despite this the platform has promised to continue forwarding its emails to another address of their users choice until 10th October.

UPDATE ISP TalkTalk Shifts UK Off-net TV Only Customers to Rakuten TV

12th April, 2018 (17 Comments)

Broadband ISP TalkTalk has announced that their remaining base of “off-net” TV only (previously Blinkbox) customers, which may also include some broadband and TV subscribers that have not synced accounts, are having their TV service moved over to the third-party Rakuten TV platform.

ISP TalkTalk Business Confirm 330Mbps UK G.fast Broadband Trial

9th April, 2018 (44 Comments)

The business division of residential ISP TalkTalk, which is naturally called TalkTalk Business, has announced that they’ve started a trial of 330Mbps capable hybrid fibre G.fast broadband technology for Wholesale and Partner customers. The commercial launch will then follow sometime this “summer“.

Which? Rank UK Broadband ISPs by the Top Four Complaints

2nd April, 2018 (15 Comments)

A new survey of more than 1,900 broadband customers across 12 different ISPs has revealed how each are ranked when ordered by the top four most common service complaints (price hikes, slow speeds, connection problems and router faults).

UK Broadband ISPs Failing to Provide Enough Speed Information

23rd March, 2018 (2 Comments)

A new Mystery Shopper study conducted by consumer magazine Which? has revealed that major broadband ISPs are only giving the required information about connection speeds under Ofcom’s Code of Practice (CoP) less than half (47%) of the time, with some (e.g. TalkTalk) doing worse than others.

Plusnet, Vodafone and Virgin Media Win 2018 Broadband ISP Survey

21st March, 2018 (4 Comments)

The annual Broadband Genie 2018 survey has today handed several awards to Plusnet, Vodafone and Virgin Media for taking the top spots in various different ISP performance categories. Overall budget ISP Plus.net scooped the most wins, as well as the headline ‘Best Broadband Provider‘ award.

ISP TalkTalk Loses UK Ultrafast Broadband Head to Virgin Media

19th March, 2018 (0 Comments)

The General Manager of “ultrafast broadband” at TalkTalk has switched sides and will soon join Virgin Media to become an Executive Director of Connectivity. The move comes ahead of both the ISP’s commercial G.fast launch and after their proposal to rollout 1Gbps FTTH/P to 3 million premises.

Phone and Broadband ISP in Top 20 Things Brits Hate to Change

26th February, 2018 (2 Comments)

A new survey commission by UK ISP TalkTalk has claimed that 69% of British people may be “losing out” due to an unwillingness to change and 25% agreed that they’d lost money as a result. Meanwhile 51% said that stress and anxiety were the main reasons they avoided change.

Budget Price War Continues as TalkTalk Slash Broadband Prices

23rd February, 2018 (20 Comments)

Low cost ISP TalkTalk appears to be taking the fight to Vodafone and other UK rivals by introducing new discounts, which will make some of their broadband and phone (with optional Pay TV) bundles as cheap as they were all the way back in 2016 (e.g. 38Mbps “fibre” for £22.50).

Multi Room TV Trial Gets Underway at UK Broadband ISP TalkTalk UPDATE

19th February, 2018 (8 Comments)

Broadband customers who signed-up last year to trial TalkTalk’s new YouView (IPTV) based Multi-Room TV service are finally starting to receive their kit. The ISP is aiming to launch the service commercially during early 2018 (most likely around late March or April).

uSwitch 2018 Awards Name the UK Best Mobile and Broadband ISPs

9th February, 2018 (13 Comments)

The annual uSwitch.com Awards 2018 were held last night, which saw budget ISP Plusnet pick-up the most wins for fixed line home broadband services and giffgaff grab the largest number of awards for their mobile service. Meanwhile NOW TV was named as the best TV provider.

ISP TalkTalk Propose Full Fibre Broadband for 3 Million UK Premises

8th February, 2018 (51 Comments)

Budget ISP TalkTalk has confirmed that they are in “discussions” with Infracapital over a plan to jointly create an independent company, with a total investment of around £1.5bn, that could provide 1Gbps ultrafast “full fibre” (FTTH/P) broadband to over 3 million premises in mid-sized UK towns and cities.

Ookla 2018 Study Awards the UK Fastest Mobile and Broadband ISPs

31st January, 2018 (3 Comments)

Ookla, which runs the popular Speedtest.net service, has today published their annual ‘Speedtest Market Report‘ for the United Kingdom. Overall the country ranked 29th in the world for average fixed line broadband ISP speeds (Virgin Media is the fastest) and just 46th for mobile (EE is the fastest).

BT in UK Court Battle Over Website Blocking for Trade Mark Abuse

30th January, 2018 (3 Comments)

Two broadband providers, BT and sibling EE, have today gone to the Supreme Court in London to appeal two key aspects of an earlier ruling, which forced major UK ISPs to start blocking websites that were found to sell counterfeit goods (i.e. abuse of Trade Mark).

ISP TalkTalk to Start Shifting UK MVNO Mobile Customers Back to O2

24th January, 2018 (2 Comments)

Budget broadband ISP TalkTalk has confirmed that customers of their existing Mobile platform will, at the end of their current contract(s), be given the choice of either switching to a completely different Mobile operator or taking out a special deal on one of O2’s plans.

Bad News for TalkTalk and Post Office in Ofcom Complaints Study Q3 2017

19th January, 2018 (3 Comments)

The UK telecom regulator’s latest Q3 2017 consumer complaints report has named and shamed TalkTalk for attracting the most gripes in the fixed ISP broadband sector, while the Post Office suffered the same for landline phone services and Vodafone took the most heat for Mobile.

YouView Refocus on Specific IPTV Updates for UK Broadband ISPs

18th January, 2018 (4 Comments)

The YouView platform, which produces hardware and software to support the broadband-based TV (IPTV) services supplied via BT and TalkTalk (as well as retail set-top-boxes), appears set to stop distributing universal software / feature updates and will start adopting a more ISP-specific approach.