Talktalk

Let us have a think-think: TalkTalk extends £1.1bn go-private takeover deadline

Pretty standard stuff, says analyst

Networks05 Nov 2020 | 1

UK ISP TalkTalk confirms it will MullMull go-private takeover offer valuing it at £1.1bn

Nobody expects the Telco Consolidation

Networks08 Oct 2020 | 22

TalkTalk marches OneTel users into a brave new email world

You will be upgraded, whether you want to be or not

SaaS05 Oct 2020 | 17

TalkTalk, Three, and Virgin Media, come on down! You've all won a prize for... not being that great at something!

Brits speak their brains for comms regulator Ofcom's customer audit

Networks21 Aug 2020 | 27

Earnings up, broadband users (and voice calls) down: TalkTalk posts prelim results for FY 2020

Vendor sheds some 'low-value legacy copper' users

Networks11 Jun 2020 | 10

Baby, I swear it's déjà vu: TalkTalk customers unable to opt out of ISP's ad-jacking DNS – just like six years ago

Updated Have you tried turning it off and on again? Yes!

Networks20 Apr 2020 | 90

Ex-TalkTalk infosec exec's equal pay and unfair dismissal claims tossed out at tribunal

Job role was scaled back after 2015 hack, rules employment judge

Legal16 Apr 2020 | 28

UK big five carriers bin wired broadband download quotas for as long as we're all stuck indoors

Keep Calm And Stream Video, on generous new discount plans and payment terms

Networks30 Mar 2020 | 28

CityFibre relieves TalkTalk of its FTTP sister biz for £200m – after Boris win blows away Labour's nationalisation vow

Deal will crank telco's reach up to 8 million premises in UK

Networks21 Jan 2020 | 15

Bandwidth weirdness at TalkTalk has customers fuming at being denied on-demand I'm A Celeb

Distinctly odd

Networks04 Dec 2019 | 19

TalkTalk says it's yet to close deal on FibreNation as UK telecoms industry reels over Labour's nationalisation plans

'The news overnight ... making everybody in the sector pause and consider'

Networks15 Nov 2019 | 9

TalkTalk keeps results under wraps citing 'advanced negotiations' over FibreNation biz

Has it found an investor in £1.5bn venture to build 3 million FTTP connections?

Networks13 Nov 2019 | 7

Former TalkTalk cybersecurity overseer rattles the tin to cover costs of equal pay dispute against UK ISP

Compo pledged to women's rights charities

Networks16 Oct 2019 | 11

TalkTalk bollocked after fibre marketing emails found to be full of sh!t

100% capacity doesn't mean 2/3 of the true figure, growls ad watchdog

Networks09 Oct 2019 | 53

TalkTalk says WalkWalk if you've got a mouldy Tiscali email address, or pay £50 a year to keep it

UK ISP gives legacy ex-customers an ultimatum

Security04 Oct 2019 | 44

Now Uncle Sam would like a word with Brit teen TalkTalk hacker about a huge crypto-coin heist

Someone's popular!

Security26 Sep 2019 | 33

TalkTalk still struggles to shut down legacy email addresses on request

Another ex-customer struggles to get hacked account killed off

Security26 Sep 2019 | 27

TalkTalk's voice-over is writing speeds that its text can't match: Ad pulled from broadcast

Mere threat of time on naughty step has ISP redrafting

Legal22 Aug 2019 | 37

You TalkTalk a big game, says ads watchdog, but your testing not good enough to say your Wi-Fi's best

UK ISP claimed signal 'couldn't be beaten.' Regulator disagreed

Networks10 Jul 2019 | 18

'Cynical and bullying' TalkTalk hackerhacker getsgets 4 yearsyears behindbehind barsbars

Welsh scumbag sent down after trying to blackmail Brit ISP's then-CEO

Security10 Jun 2019 | 71

Now that's service: TalkTalk customers enjoy a Friday morning free of pesky emails

The day has a 'y' in it – must be time for an outage

Networks12 Apr 2019 | 20

Teen TalkTalk hacker denies flogging stolen personal data for Bitcoin

19-year-old also accused of breaching sex offence order, money laundering

Security03 Apr 2019 | 12

TalkTalk returns to the email hall of shame as Pipex accounts throw weekend-long wobbly

All fine now, insists telco after Total Inability ToTalkTalk to Server Upsets Pipex peeps*

Networks11 Mar 2019 | 35

TalkTalk kept my email account active for 8 years after I left – now it's spamming my mates

Updated But ISP won't nuke nuisance without proof of ID

Security07 Mar 2019 | 152

TalkTalk's £1.5bn 3-million home fibre broadband hopes on ice for now

FibreNation might exist but the expected sack of cash is yet to be announced

Networks21 Nov 2018 | 13

TalkTalk hackhack duoduo thrownthrown in the coolercooler: 'Talented' pair sentenced for ransacking ISP

Matthew Hanley, Connor Allsopp get 12 and 8 months in the clink, respectively

Security20 Nov 2018 | 40

Ah, British summer. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, the internet is on the fritz

Sky, TalkTalk and M24Seven all withered in the heat this week

On-Prem19 Jul 2018 | 56

TalkTalk shrugs off moaning customers to claim 80,000 more

Back in black

On-Prem17 Jul 2018 | 15

TalkTalk, UK2 sitting in a tree, not T-A-L-K-I-N-G: Hosting biz cut off after ISP broadband upgrade

Updated 'Not an issue with our network', say UK2.net techies

Networks05 Jul 2018 | 17

TalkTalk plans to sell family B2B jewel to Daisy Group for £175m

Swings into £79m loss-loss in prelim fy18 results

On-Prem24 May 2018 | 14

ISP TalkTalk's Wi-Fi passwords Walk Walk thanks to Awks Awks router security hole

Brit broadband biz has only had four years to patch up WPS

Security22 May 2018 | 30

TalkTalk ups the (dis)satisfaction ante as UK folk wake up to borked email

New approach to dealing with complaints working wonders

SaaS18 May 2018 | 25

Guess who's still most moaned about UK ISP... Rhymes with BorkBork

No, BT and Plusnet, you're not off the hook either

On-Prem18 Apr 2018 | 85

TalkTalk to splash £1.5bn laying full fibre on 3 million doorsteps

Shares drop 12% as biz slashes dividends to raise capital

Networks08 Feb 2018 | 85

TalkTalk starts offering punters choice to shift-shift to O2

A 'great' deal - as long as you stay with their crummy broadband

Networks24 Jan 2018 | 30

Take a bow, TalkTalk, Post Office, Vodafone! You win most-whinged-about telcos award

Regulator figures show Sky, Tesco users as most content

Networks19 Jan 2018 | 23

TalkTalk banbans TeamTeamviewerviewer againagain

Remote access tool blocked for second time by Brit ISP

Security19 Dec 2017 | 67

TalkTalk sees red after chucking £75m on restructuring bonfire

Who wants to buy a phone biz?

Networks15 Nov 2017 | 23

TalkTalk glitch causing mobiles and landlines to go off at the same time

Yet more problems for the firm's long-suffering customers

Networks02 Nov 2017 | 22

Ex-TalkTalk chief grilled by MPs on suitability to chair NHS Improvement

From heading one cyber-attack victim to another

Security18 Oct 2017 | 80

In a surprise to no one, BT and TalkTalk top Ofcom's whinge-list

'Some providers still not doing enough,' says regulator

On-Prem27 Sep 2017 | 15

TalkTalk once told GCHQ: Cyberattack? We'd act fast – to get sport streams back up

Updated National Cyber Crime Unit spills on pre-2015 megahack convo

Security27 Sep 2017 | 29

The award for worst ISP goes to... it starts with Talk and ends with Talk

Two other big brands, Sky and BT, also in the naughty corner

Networks22 Sep 2017 | 96

TalkTalk plans to bail on mobile in major shake-up for beleaguered biz

Three reported to be 'interested' in a deal

Networks06 Sep 2017 | 29

TalkTalk fined £100k for exposing personal sensitive info

21,000 accounts handled by Indian outsourcing biz exposed

Security10 Aug 2017 | 61

Post Office puts stamp on ISP minnow Fuel

Acquisition marks move away from snail mail to broadband

Networks02 Aug 2017 | 14

TalkTalk posts 3% sales drop, says Openreach should walk the WalkWalk

Will 'engage practically' with former BT arm

Networks19 Jul 2017 | 18

TalkTalk customers complain of being unable to load Amazon website

Issue ongoing since last week

Networks21 Jun 2017 | 28

Info commish: One year to go and businesses still not ready for GDPR

Thought £400k TalkTalk fine was big? Try €20m

Legal25 May 2017 | 14

TalkTalk full-year profits rise but shares slump after raid on dividends

Chase for growth leaves investors cold

On-Prem10 May 2017 | 13

TalkTalk HackHack DuoDuo PleadPlead GuiltyGuiltyGuiltyGuilty

Met cops gloat after pair admits to pilfering subscriber records

Security27 Apr 2017 | 28

Brit ISP TalkTalk blocks control tool TeamViewer

Updated To stop scammers fooling people into using the software and handing over their PCs

Security09 Mar 2017 | 165

Scammers hired hundreds of 'staff' to defraud TalkTalk customers

BBC probe reveals scale of the scam

Security07 Mar 2017 | 44

Dido queen of carnage steps down from TalkTalk

Founder Charles Dunstone to take helm of biz

On-Prem01 Feb 2017 | 74

Please come back! TalkTalk woos customers with broadband offers

Competitors are raising prices. Who knows, it could work

Networks30 Jan 2017 | 35

TalkTalk hacker gets iPhone taken away by Norwich Youth Court

Unnamed teen also gets rehabilitation order

Security13 Dec 2016 | 65