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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.

UK ISP TalkTalk Launch TV Subscription Free Streaming Service

26th April, 2016 (1 Comment)

Apparently everybody has to have their own Internet video streaming service and TalkTalk has become the latest to join the party with the launch of their new Blinkbox based pay-as-you-go (payg) TV Store, which claims to offer “the latest movies and hit TV shows at Britain’s lowest price” to everybody.

ISP TalkTalk Falls to 4.1M On-net Broadband Users and Offers Incentives

11th November, 2015 (5 Comments)

After the recent cyber-attack TalkTalk, which dubiously skipped their previous Q2 2015 report (here), has today published a financial update for Q3 2015 (calendar) and revealed that they’ve lost -80K broadband subscribers in the past 6 months to make for a total of 4.1 million (on-net).

UK ISP TalkTalk Issues Unusually Vague Trading Update for Q2 2015

22nd July, 2015 (0 Comments)

ISP TalkTalk appears to have somewhat broken with tradition this morning by issuing a surprisingly vague trading update for the second quarter of 2015, which reveals very little except to confirm that the migration of Tesco’s broadband customers onto their network has “begun well” and should complete over the coming months.

TalkTalk Top 4.28M Broadband Subs as 1Gbps FTTP for York Set to Go Live

14th May, 2015 (2 Comments)

UK ISP TalkTalk has posted their latest results for Q1-2015 (calendar), which revealed that the provider added +47k broadband subscribers in the quarter to total 4,283,000 (sharply up from +15k added in Q4 2014). But there’s bad news for some of the recent off-net (BT based) broadband customer gains from Virgin Media and Tesco.

UPDATE3 Tesco Broadband Hit by Major UK Outage Ahead of TalkTalk Swap

21st April, 2015 (6 Comments)

A significant country-wide service outage appears to be impacting thousands of customers on Tesco’s broadband service, which is currently in the process of being acquired by TalkTalk following a deal that was signed in January.

UK ISP TalkTalk Confirm Acquisition of Tesco Broadband, Phone and Blinkbox

8th January, 2015 (3 Comments)

As predicted last week TalkTalk has this morning confirmed the acquisition of Tesco’s Blinkbox Movies (video streaming) business, but in a more surprising move they’ve also gobbled the supermarket giants budget fixed line broadband (75,000 subs) and phone (20,000 subs) customers. Apparently the assets have been acquired free of debt and as a single transaction for cash.

BT Deploy FREE WiFi to UK Tesco Extra and Superstores – Replaces O2

18th November, 2014 (1 Comment)

Supermarket giant Tesco has moved to paint over some of their financial troubles by announcing that customers who shop in their Tesco Extra or Superstores across the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland will now be able to get online via premium WiFi hotspots from BT.

UK ISPs PlusNet, Sky and Virgin Media Top 2014 Home Broadband Survey

17th February, 2014 (0 Comments)

The results from the joint annual PC Advisor magazine and Broadband Genie Home Broadband Survey 2014 have been announced, which saw PlusNet pick-up the award for ‘Best Broadband Provider’. Sky Broadband, Gigaclear and Virgin Media also picked up some awards.

Tesco Mobile Launch 4G LTE Mobile Broadband Service At No Extra Cost

30th January, 2014 (0 Comments)

The mobile division of Supermarket giant Tesco, which is naturally called Tesco Mobile and bases its service off an MVNO deal with O2, has followed Three UK’s lead by offering access to its latest 4G (LTE) based Mobile Broadband network at no extra cost for both new and existing customers.

ISP Tesco UK Has Prepared a Superfast FTTC Fibre Broadband Package

24th January, 2014 (26 Comments)

Consumers interested in signing up for Tesco’s Broadband and Home Phone service might like to know that the ISP appears to be hiding a Fibre Broadband (up to 38Mbps) package under the hood of their website, which we spotted by accident while conducting one of our database update sweeps.

Tesco UK Begin Offering FREE Broadband and Calls for One Year

19th November, 2013 (20 Comments)

Supermarket giant Tesco has started offering free broadband and calls for 12 months when taken alongside Home Phone line rental at £14.90 per month. Previously this promotion was only available to those who also purchased an Internet enabled device (e.g. tablet computer) from one of their stores.

Tesco Offer FREE UK Broadband for a Year with Internet Enabled Devices

1st October, 2013 (8 Comments)

Tesco has launched a new promotion that gives customers 12 months of free unlimited broadband connectivity when they buy “any device that connects to the Internet” through the supermarket chain, such as laptops, tablets (e.g. Tescos new Hudl tablet), smartphones, Smart TV’s and games consoles etc.

Which UK Broadband ISP and Mobile Operator Gives Top Twitter Support

10th August, 2013 (2 Comments)

An interesting new study from social media analyst WaveMetrix has taken a look at the United Kingdom’s biggest broadband ISPs to discover which gives the best support via Twitter. The study found that good support is about more than being the fastest to reply. Just ask Virgin Media, which wasn’t the fastest like Sky Broadband but still did well.

Tesco Beat Zen Internet and PlusNet to Scoop Best 2013 Telecoms Award

21st June, 2013 (9 Comments)

The winners of the annual Which? Awards 2013 event were announced this week and saw the gong for Best Telecom Services Provider going to Tesco Mobile, which managed to beat the other finalists including O2, Zen Internet and PlusNet.

UK ISP Tesco Offer Unlimited Broadband and Calls FREE for 12 Months

15th May, 2013 (10 Comments)

Tesco has once again cut the cost of their fixed line home broadband and phone bundles by offering the service free for the first 12 months, albeit only if you are one of their mobile subscribers. The standard price has also been cut to just £2 a month for non-Mobile users.

ISP Tesco Broadband Reveals UK Price Hikes Just Before Christmas

20th December, 2012 (12 Comments)

Customers of Tesco’s fixed line “unlimited” broadband and phone services may be displeased to learn that they’re about to become the latest to be hit by a price hike. The worst part is that customers have only been given 10 days to decide and those who refuse will have to switch.. at Christmas!