The TalkTalk Blog - Network news category

Safeguarding our service while the bad weather continues

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:39:00 GMT

As the severe weather continues we are maintaining our focus on supporting the teams who are helping our customers. Our staffing levels are returning to normal and we are working extremely hard with our colleagues at Openreach to ensure we prioritise tasks.

Upgrading our Next Generation Network for the 21st century

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:15:00 GMT

It’s not a name that most of you will ever hear, but thousands of TalkTalk Group customers across the country are already feeling the benefits of the major Network Unification Project (NUP) being rolled out by TalkTalk Technology, the 500-strong team of developers and engineers who look after our Next Generation Network.

Update on TalkTalk's fibre-optic broadband trial

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:45:00 GMT

Just a quick update on our fibre-optic broadband trial. After a few false starts, we managed to enable the Muswell Hill exchange in North London this week and connect our first fibre-optic customer.

TalkTalk trials fibre-optic broadband

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:42:00 GMT

Collectively, the broadband industry often seems to confuse people with jargon and superlatives. You’ll often see terms like "speed" and "fast" used in various combinations to create a plethora of overlapping terms.....ultra-fast broadband...super-fast broadband....high speed broadband. And then there is the all those industry-invented abbreviations....NGA, FTTC, FTTP, 21CN.

Welcoming Tiscali is next chapter in TalkTalk story

Fri, 08 May 2009 08:25:00 GMT

You may have read this morning that TalkTalk is buying Tiscali UK to create Britain’s largest home broadband provider.

We launched TalkTalk in February 2003 to challenge the existing order and provide better value and more choice. Today’s announcements means we have with over 4.25m broadband customers – over 25% of all UK households.

If I look back six years no one could have imagined that a mobile phone retailer would build the largest residential broadband provider in the UK, but our determination to offer incredible value with the latest technology has got us to where we are today.