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Helping the 2.4 million who can’t afford to get online at home

As the UK’s leading value for money provider, the belief that everyone has the right to access the internet at an affordable price is at the heart of our business. UK consumers benefit from some of the lowest broadband prices but we know that the upfront cost of getting online is still a barrier for some [...]

TalkTalk is proud to be a founder of Go ON UK

I’m proud to be announcing our support for Go ON UK, a new partnership that aims to bring the benefits of the internet to every individual and every organisation in every community across the UK. TalkTalk is one of seven founder partners and, along with Age UK, the BBC, Big Lottery Fund (BIG), E.ON, Post [...]

myfriendsonline week

When I co-founded Lastminute.com back in the late nineties, I spent most of my time convincing people that the web wasn’t about to blow up! Now ‘digital’ is as vital and basic a life skill as knowing how to read and write, and alongside my roles as non-exec director at M&S and Mydeco.com and co-founder of [...]

Announcing the UK’s Digital Hero 2011

Yesterday afternoon we were at the House of Lords for the TalkTalk Digital Heroes Awards ceremony. It was a fitting finale for what has been a fantastic competition packed full of incredible individuals working for equally amazing projects. As well as recognising all twelve regional finalists, each of whom will receive a £5,000 grant for their [...]

Go 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 [...]

Thirty 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 [...]

Introduce 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 [...]

Digital Heroes Awards 2011 – cast your votes now!

After receiving a record number of entries for the TalkTalk Digital Heroes Awards 2011, we’ve now whittled it down to 37 amazing finalists. It’s no exaggeration to say that all of them are deserving of a Digital Heroes Award, so it’s down to you to decide who our winners are in a public vote. Last year [...]

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 [...]

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.