All TalkTalk articles – Page 2
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Consumer (B2C)
Wound-up Ofcom ‘demands answers’ from UK’s dominant ISPs as One Touch Switching delayed again
The UK’s fixed-connectivity scheme remains in disarray, with regulator demanding answers from BT, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin Media O2. Will it deem delays anticompetitive, and how will it act forcefully?
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Operations
CityFibre gets proactive on eliminating fault frustration
While ultrafast fibre connectivity is increasingly essential for business and consumers, service standards haven’t remotely kept pace.
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Public Affairs
Can’t get much broadband satisfaction in UK — Which?
EE and Virgin Media O2 among worst-performing broadband providers, according to latest Which? survey. Poor UK broadband report card comes on heels of massive mid-contract hikes.
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Strategy & Change
CityFibre: service problems are inevitable; failing your customers is not
The real mettle of a business is often exposed when something goes wrong for the customer.
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Premium
Ofcom to review Openreach price tactics — as controversial Equinox 2 provisionally cleared
Regulator minded to permit Openreach’s Equinox 2 upgrade to its incentivised wholesale pricing strategy for SPs, which is ostensibly intended to accelerate fibre adoption and copper shutdown.
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Premium
Virgin Media O2 joins massive price-hike club
Operator confirms average yearly prices will shoot up 13.8%.
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Premium
BT scrambles to explain massive price hikes
Group to raise most tariffs by 14.4%, based on December CPI rate and additional annual charges.
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Premium
YouView losses mount as JV ups product spend
BT-backed TV platform joint venture flags another uptick in R&D investment in bid to compete with streaming giants. Key shareholder funders BT and TalkTalk up lending to more than £100m.
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Premium
VM O2 pulls out of TalkTalk bid, Openreach steps in
Reports that VM O2 took back takeover offer are followed by discussions with Openreach on fibre migration.
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Premium
Elsewhere in Openreach: UK Government to help “fast-track” fibre engineers
Government launches review of visa system to “fast‑track” immigration of foreign fibre engineers; TalkTalk looks beyond Openreach for suppliers.
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Premium
VM O2 fibre wholesale talks “not easy”, says Schüler
CEO Lutz Schüler in “balancing act” with prospective wholesale customers.
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Premium
VM O2 tests digital inclusion scheme in Manchester
Cost‑of‑living crisis driving city’s vulnerable residents offline.
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Network & Infrastructure
Don’t bank on the big two for buyouts, Brit altnets warned
As UK Infrastructure Bank highlights challenge of financing fibre rollout at pace, a report from Communication Chambers warns altnets to consider consolidation plans carefully.
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People
BT’s Balestiero to lead YouView into 'all-IP era’
BT-backed TV joint venture names Riccardo Balestiero Chief Executive.
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M&A
VM O2 said to table TalkTalk bid
Talks said to be in early stages, with initial offer reportedly valuing altnet at about £3bn.
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Premium
Vodafone ‘weighs’ TalkTalk takeover
UK altnet said to have asked Lazard to review options as potential bidders circle.
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Premium
Ofcom urges service providers to promote social tariffs
Regulator says 1.1 million households struggling to pay for broadband. Social tariffs can help, but only six service providers offer the discounts. Millions of eligible households don’t know about the cheaper plans. Ofcom expects industry to “step up”.
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Premium
UK operators action inflation-linked pricing
BT, EE join fellow operators in price hike announcements as UK inflation pushes broadband and mobile prices up nearly 10%. Consumer challenges affecting MNOs too, say MNOs. Brexit impact also felt for roamers.
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Premium
Telefónica actions inflation-linked pricing
Virgin Media O2 customers to face steepest rise in broadband and mobile prices, but all UK customers will be impacted. 11% price hike in April a necessary part of network investment, VM O2 spokesperson claims.
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Operations
BT and TalkTalk footing the YouView bill as losses mount, Arqiva exits
Latest accounts show the TV platform’s shareholders now down to six, with the two operators keeping the venture afloat. R&D budget remains high at £16m, compared to revenue of just £9m. Telcos remain coy on paying subscribers for their TV services.
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