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But the impact of forcing everybody to stay at home has changed all that, at least for a short period.<\/p>\n<p>According to new data released today by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/tt\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">TalkTalk<\/a>, total minutes spent on landline calls grew by 49% year-on-year in March (total of 347,185,268 mins) and 51% year-on-year in April (total of 350,874,699 mins). Calls made from UK landlines to UK national and mobile numbers rose by 60% across March and April (total of 639,676,867 mins), whereas calls to international numbers increased by 7% in the same period (total of 58,383,110 mins).<\/p>\n<p>Similar increases have also been reported by other ISPs with fixed line phone services.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Sian Doyle, Consumer Managing Director at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/tt\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">TalkTalk<\/a>, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This data demonstrates the continuing importance of landlines to people all over the country. Calls between TalkTalk landline customers are free and with the [\u00a312 a month] Unlimited UK Calls Boost our customers can continue to catch up with those most important to them, safe in the knowledge that their phone bill won&#8217;t be more expensive as a result.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However we suspect this &#8220;<em>renaissance<\/em>&#8221; in traditional calling won&#8217;t last for long and will start to decline as the lockdown softens. One other reason for that is that many mobile plans now include unlimited calls for very little money, while similar tariffs on older fixed lines tend to be a fair bit more expensive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Budget broadband ISP TalkTalk has reported that calls made via landline phones in the UK on their service have increased by 50% during the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) lockdown as British people turned to more &#8220;traditional methods of communication&#8221; to stay in touch with family and friends (not to mention working from home).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74,81],"class_list":["post-22373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-talktalk","tag-voip"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>COVID-19 - ISP TalkTalk See 50% Increase in UK Landline Calls - ISPreview UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Budget broadband ISP TalkTalk has reported that calls made via landline phones in the UK on their service have increased by 50% during the COVID-19\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/05\/covid-19-isp-talktalk-see-50-increase-in-uk-landline-calls.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"COVID-19 - ISP TalkTalk See 50% Increase in UK Landline Calls - ISPreview UK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Budget broadband ISP TalkTalk has reported that calls made via landline phones in the UK on their service have increased by 50% during the COVID-19\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/05\/covid-19-isp-talktalk-see-50-increase-in-uk-landline-calls.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ISPreview UK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ispreview\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ispreview\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-05-20T08:50:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-05-20T09:41:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/5_talktalk_uk_broadband_isp_logo_2020.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mark Jackson\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ispreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ispreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mark Jackson\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2020\\\/05\\\/covid-19-isp-talktalk-see-50-increase-in-uk-landline-calls.html#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2020\\\/05\\\/covid-19-isp-talktalk-see-50-increase-in-uk-landline-calls.html\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Mark Jackson\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/de66a8b4e937c21c80e443d1bf9c35d5\"},\"headline\":\"COVID-19 &#8211; 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