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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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Andrew Heaney

Executive Director of Strategy and Regulation, TalkTalk Group

Andrew Heaney joined us as TalkTalk Group's Executive Director of Strategy and Regulation in 2007. He is responsible for developing the Group's commercial strategy and approach in key areas of regulation and public policy such as LLU, BT's Undertakings, NGA and copyright.

Andrew was previously a Competition Policy Director with Ofcom and a partner with Spectrum Strategy Consultants; he brings a wealth of experience working with government, investors, regulators and other telecoms companies.

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1 Digital Economy Bill – it’s a wash up

It looks like much of the Digital Economy Bill will make it through to get Royal Assent by the end of the week.

The Bill is now in much better shape than when first tabled by the Government last year – the ability of the Government to impose disconnection at will has been checked and the Henry VIII clause that literally allowed the Government to do anything else to reduce copyright infringement has been removed.

08-Apr-2010
2 TalkTalk’s response to “Clause 18″

As you may have seen in the news a new “Clause 18” has been proposed for the Digital Economy Bill. This clause would force ISPs to block websites containing copyright infringing material.

This is what we’ve got to say about it:

 31-Mar-2010
3 Response to the Government’s 50p phone tax

The 50p phone tax is an unfair, regressive and wasteful way of funding superfast broadband which would deliver less benefit than it will cost, slow superfast broadband roll-out and drive around 200,000 homes off broadband.

 24-Mar-2010
4 Dan Bull takes us back to the 80s when “home taping was killing music”

We all know that the government’s disconnection proposals to deter illegal filesharing are daft and dangerous. And many would agree that the way many people in the music industry have reacted is a little misguided. After all, haven’t we seen this type of scaremongering before?

 12-Mar-2010
5 Stephen Fry has spoken – or should that be ‘tweeted’?

Our “Sing Our Petition” contest against the Government’s filesharing proposals has been running for the past month. Entries finally closed last week and Stephen, who kindly agreed to judge it for us, has announced his favourite.

03-Feb-2010