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Welcome to the TalkTalk blog. Here you'll find regular entries from our Chairman Charles Dunstone, our CEO Dido Harding and members of the TalkTalk team.

From the launch of free broadband in 2006 to the release of our innovative new myTalkTalk package, we're always thinking of ways to change the phone and broadband market for the better. Through the blog you'll be the first to hear any news.

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Archive for October, 2011

Dido HardingDido HardingWe’re committed to being the UK’s safest broadband provider

There’s been a lot of discussion recently about the Government’s work to protect children online. Indeed, we announced a few weeks ago that we fully support the recommendation of the Bailey Review that parents should be helped to block inappropriate content on the internet and be offered an ‘Active Choice’ about whether to use controls.
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Mark SchmidMark SchmidGo ON, Get online with our Broadband Expert tutorials

In support of the ‘Go ON give an hour’ initiative our Chief Executive Dido Harding posted about earlier this week, we will be holding beginner internet sessions at our TalkTalk Customer Experience Centre in London over the coming weeks.
The one hour tutorial sessions will be open to anyone who wants an introduction to the internet [...]

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Tristia ClarkeTristia ClarkeThirty per cent of life tasks are now conducted online

Thirty per cent of life tasks are now conducted online according to an analysis we’ve just completed.
We asked more than 20,000 people about their online habits and found that in homes with a broadband connection almost one third of everything we do – from communication to entertainment to shopping to life management – is now [...]

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Adrian TaylorAdrian TaylorTalkTalk is glad to support IWF Awareness Day

At TalkTalk we absolutely believe that everyone has the right to access safe, affordable broadband. That’s why we developed HomeSafe, the UK’s first network level security service, and why we are also proud to be a member of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF).
Today is the IWF’s annual awareness day and it also marks 15 years [...]

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Dido HardingDido HardingIntroduce someone to the wonders of the web this weekend

This Sunday the clocks go back. For many that’s just an excuse to have an extra hour in bed, but this year Martha Lane Fox, the UK’s Digital Champion, is calling on us to use that time to help get someone online.

Most of us couldn’t imagine life without the internet but there are still [...]

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