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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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21 Interview with Digital Heroes Awards winner: Ben Richardson
Ben Richardson is the overall winner of the TalkTalk Digital Heroes awards 2010 for his work at The Connection at St Martin’s – a project which aims to give homeless people new skills in digital media to help them get their lives back on track. The project started off with a small group of homeless people [...] 		15-Jan-2011
09:50
22 Ben Richardson crowned 2010 Digital Hero by UK digital champion
Last week I was lucky enough to attend the TalkTalk Digital Heroes Awards ceremony at the House of Lords where we honoured twelve outstanding individuals who are using technology to positively impact the people in their community. Being one of Britain’s biggest providers of broadband we are clearly passionate about the power of the internet. As [...] 		13-Dec-2010
10:19
23 Investing smartly in broadband’s future
The Government outlined its spending review on Wednesday.  Buried in the detail was spending plans for broadband where they have committed an extra £300m (from the TV licence fee) on top of the £230m already allocated. We wholeheartedly support the investment to get speeds up to a minimum of 2Mbps across the country – Lord Carter’s [...] 		22-Oct-2010
14:03
24 Who are your Digital Heroes?
Today marks the start of Get Online Week, the initiative to encourage more people to try out the internet for the first time, so it’s fitting that this morning we can also announce the opening of public voting for our very own Digital Heroes Awards.   We received hundreds of entries from people nominating their personal Digital [...] 		18-Oct-2010
12:46
25 IT and biscuits
Calling all internet beginners! We’re hosting a number of simple and easy to follow classes with Age UK on making the most of the internet This event on September 20th will cover the fundamentals of what the internet has to offer such as sending emails, paying bills online, internet shopping, and using search engines such as Google. [...] 		15-Sep-2010
08:20
26 Nominate your Digital Heroes today!
We’re looking for 12 more inspirational individuals who are using digital technology to improve the lives of people in their local communities. 		10-Sep-2010
09:23
27 The TalkTalk Digital Heroes Awards – £65,000 in grants up for grabs!
The TalkTalk Digital Heroes Awards is the UK’s only scheme to reward the amazing individuals who are using digital technology to benefit their local communities, and the opening date for the 2010 awards is now just a couple of weeks away! 		25-Aug-2010
08:40
28 Historypin brings the generations together online
Regular readers of this blog will know that at TalkTalk we’re strongly committed to encouraging greater digital inclusion. One great new website that helps bring young and old people together online is called Historypin. We asked Historypin’s managing director, Nick Stanhope, to blog for us about the site and its aims . . . Historypin.com, launched in [...] 		30-Jul-2010
11:03
29 Thousands of public sector workers could be squeezed off the internet
Public sector workers are going to feel the squeeze with a two year pay freeze in the offing. Inevitably it is the lower paid workers who will suffer the most. That’s despite the Government’s promise that those earning less than £21,000 a year will now get a small rise (£250 per year for the next [...] 		14-Jul-2010
08:22
30 Presenting the Networked Nation Manifesto at Number 10
At 4.50pm yesterday, the Prime Minister strode into the Cabinet Office to be greeted by an unfamiliar sight. Our Race Online 2012 People’s Taskforce were sitting excitedly in the seats ordinarily reserved for secretaries of state and ministers. They told the Prime Minister, the Secretary of State for Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) Jeremy [...] 		13-Jul-2010
15:30
31 Joining up our Networked Nation
Yesterday saw the announcement of two Government policy initiatives. In the morning came the publication of the Manifesto for a Networked Nation, a commitment to get the ten million Brits who’ve never used the internet online by 2012. Inevitably this was upstaged by the afternoon announcement, the much anticipated White Paper on health. Most commentators focused on [...] 		13-Jul-2010
09:50
32 How You Can Help Get Everyone Online By 2012
As a core first wave Race Online 2012 partner, TalkTalk’s dedication and commitment to helping achieve a fully networked nation has been amazing. Through a variety of customer facing initiatives, TalkTalk aims to get a staggering 100,000 new users online by 2012. But we also need your help… In early July, we at Race Online 2012 [...] 		08-Jun-2010
08:27
33 The rise of the Silver Surfer
Today is the ninth annual Silver Surfers’ Day – a national day dedicated to promoting the use of digital technologies by older people ­­– which promises to be bigger and more inclusive this year than ever. It’s the inspiration for 1,500 digital education events up and down the country, exclusively for people aged 55 and over [...] 		21-May-2010
07:51
34 TalkTalk’s reaction to the Tories’ broadband plans
The Conservatives have set out their plans for opening up the broadband market to competition, vowing to end BT’s monopoly over the cables and ducts which connect homes and businesses to the nearest exchange. We think they have got it right. 		01-Feb-2010
12:18
35 Importance of broadband access for Britain’s schoolchildren
The government has today announced its plan to give free laptops and broadband access to 270,000 low income families. The intention, it says, is to improve children’s educational opportunities and ensure that busy parents can keep better track of how their kids are doing at school. 		11-Jan-2010
11:01
36 Rewarding Britain’s digital heroes
Yesterday we were at the House Lords to hand out awards to the 12 regional winners of our TalkTalk Digital Heroes Awards. The event was a great success, with a number of MPs and peers – including Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw – joining representatives from TalkTalk and digital inclusion charity Citizens Online, along with the winners themselves. 		25-Nov-2009
16:54
37 Pass IT On . . .
Today is Get Online Day. As its name suggests, it’s a day of activities aimed at encouraging those who’ve never used the internet before, or only used it infrequently, to get online and begin experiencing everything that the web has to offer. 		23-Oct-2009
07:49
38 Public voting begins for Digital Heroes Awards
We’re now down to the last 36 in the TalkTalk Digital Heroes Awards and we’ve opened up the voting to allow you to have your say on who wins. 		25-Sep-2009
08:41