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The chips are anything but down at this year’s Mobile World Congress

Some fantastic devices are being seen for the first time at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, and excitement is building over Apple’s iPad 3 tablet, which is expected to launch next Wednesday. The latest top-of-the-range smartphones from LG and Huawei will have quad-core processor chips, allowing them to handle 3D games and high-definition [...]

Fabulous prizes going for a song

Are you looking for a way to keep your children interested in making music until the X Factor returns this summer? TalkTalk is proud to support a brilliant singing and songwriting competition, The Song Academy Young Singer Songwriter Competition. Organisers are looking for children and young people aged six to 18 years who can write [...]

UK’s best value landline calls to over 100 international destinations

Today we launched our brand new 500 Global Minute Boost which means that TalkTalk customers can now benefit from the UK’s best value landline calls to over 100 international destinations (compared to BT, Virgin, Sky and Plusnet). For just £5 a month, the Global Minutes Boost provides customers with 500 minutes of calls from their landline [...]

Our help is just a YouTube video away

We’ve noticed that a significant portion of the calls and emails we receive from our customers focus on just a few common issues. Some of these are minor ‘technical’ problems which can actually be resolved quite quickly. Others are the equivalent of “frequently asked questions” people have about their internet experience.

Love is in the air… and on the phone

Britain’s romantics are putting the finishing touches to their plans for Valentine's Day. Have you sent your loved one a card? Or are you one of the growing number of Brits who is showing their love for the environment by picking up the phone and telling your Valentine how you feel?

Landline developments

We might be better known nowadays for our broadband offer, but TalkTalk started in 2003 as a home phone company offering significant savings for customers over BT. While our business and our offer has evolved since then, offering phone services to millions of our customers is still at the heart of what we do.

Play our online game for a chance to win £1,000 of prizes

Here’s a bit of Tuesday fun – the chance to win £1,000 worth of shopping vouchers for having a bash at our online game to celebrate free local calls, as part of TalkTalk’s Essentials home phone and broadband package.

Keeping it local

These days 'collecting' friends seems sometimes more important than keeping in contact with them (or so someone with 729 Facebook buddies told me). We were interested, therefore, to see that TalkTalk's research found that most people's closest friends still live within 15 minutes of their front door.

Free local phone calls, so you can talk and talk

It might come as a surprise to some people, but 70% of all the UK calls our customers make are to local numbers. So we’ve recently reviewed our pricing to reflect this and give our customers a better deal.

TalkTalk network snowed under, but holds up well

The snow has brought equal measures of chaos and fun, depending on whether you were trying to get to work or had been given the day off school on Monday. With most of the transport infrastructure closed, particularly in London, millions of workers decided that the best course of action was to work from home.