Carphone Warehouse 3rd biggest Broadband provider RSS

Charles Dunstone has a good reason to be cheerful at the moment – despite the TalkTalk name suffering in the press ever since the mad rush for free broadband last year, the ISP has been successful in adding an extra 126,000 customers to its services, overtaking Tiscali‘s position as the third biggest provider of broadband and phone services in the UK.

It is estimated that over 60% of these customers access TalkTalk services outside CW’s LLU network, and so the company loses money to BT this way, but overall things are looking good. Profits are reinforced by strong sales in the mobile phone sector, which, thanks to the imminent arrival of the zeitgeist-gadget-in-waiting iPhone, is set to get stronger.

TalkTalk also introduced free broadband with their Talk2 phone plan this month, providing a cost-effective broadband solution for punters.

In a bid to match Orange in the free hardware stakes, Carphone Warehouse have done a deal with Dell which sees customers who sign up for a two-year contract with AOL Broadband at £19.99 a month – presumably this means the 2Mbps Silver package plus the Talk Evening and Weekends plan. This deal is set to go live in September, at the start of Q3.

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4 Comments »Posted by Tom on July 30th 2007 in AOL, BT Broadband, Broadband, TalkTalk, Tiscali



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4 Responses to “Carphone Warehouse 3rd biggest Broadband provider”

  1. Daniel said on 02 Aug 2007 at 7:35 pm #

    I must admit being more than a little shocked to read the extra number of customers gained by Talk Talk given the troubles they have had these last 12 months, nearly every broadband forum on the net has a section dedicated to complaining about them

    How well do you Talk Talk will handle the demand for Talk2, will they be better prepared this time around?

    Daniel
    http://broadbandupdate.blogspot.com/

  2. Dick Johanssenssen said on 07 Aug 2007 at 10:21 am #

    Talk Talk have their fair share of bad press, but you can’t deny that their services offer the best value for money in terms of broadband and phone calls. With line rental included, if it’s reliable internet access you’re after, why bother with anyone else?

  3. Darth Littlejohn said on 07 Aug 2007 at 10:28 am #

    Dick mate, I think you’ll find that there is more than just a ‘fair share’ of bad press about TalkTalk floating around on the world wide interweb. Daniel is right, TalkTalk have been unable to deliver since day one, when they were swamped with customer demand for free broadband, and frankly, give the recent Ann Gordon farce, it’s amazing that they are doing so well in the market place.

    I won’t deny that on paper their services are good value, but when you can’t get a connection…

  4. brian said on 25 Aug 2007 at 12:54 pm #

    How can such a pathetic provider be so busy. It amazes me the amount of fool out there.


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