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  • TalkTalk adds Sony TV to YouView service

    TalkTalk adds Sony TV to YouView service

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    Broadband and TV company TalkTalk has added Sony’s UK TV channel to it’s YouView-based TV service. Sony Entertainment Television offers popular classic hits including Life on Mars, Hustle and Spooks plus a mix of recent and classic movies including the Kevin Spacey film 21 and The Thomas Crown Affair.

  • How TalkTalk and BT could use YouView to take on iTunes

    How TalkTalk and BT could use YouView to take on iTunes

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    When TalkTalk and BT decided to join the YouView partnership both correctly identified it as a relatively low-cost route to a next generation set top box which would allow them to credibly compete with Sky and Virgin Media. In the year or so since both ISPs launched their revamped TV services they’ve both added new…

  • Update for TalkTalk YouView customers brings boost channels to EPG

    Update for TalkTalk YouView customers brings boost channels to EPG

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    A new software update for TalkTalk YouView boxes allows customers to access their subscription channels via the main programme guide. TalkTalk’s YouView service combines Freeview channels and additional, optional paid channels such as Sky 1 and SyFy which are delivered via broadband. When the service first launched last year the broadband channels could only be…

  • TalkTalk predicts 1m TV customers

    TalkTalk predicts 1m TV customers

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    TalkTalk has added a further 167,000 TV subscribers in the 6 months to September, taking its TV customer base to 557,000. The company offers a selection on Pay-TV channels via broadband and a YouView box and says it now expects total TV subscriptions to reach 1m by year end. It also added 5,000 new broadband…

  • TalkTalk introduces £3.50 per month SIM-only plan

    TalkTalk introduces £3.50 per month SIM-only plan

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    TalkTalk Mobile has announced what it says is the country’s “best priced” SIM-only plan – a £3.50 per month tariff with 100 minutes, 250 texts and 100MB of data. The company, which says it has more than 200,000 smartphone and SIM-only customers, has also boosted allowances on existing tariffs. Minutes on its Medium plan are…

  • TalkTalk: 500,000 homes losing broadband speed through poor set-up

    TalkTalk: 500,000 homes losing broadband speed through poor set-up

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    Poorly set-up networks mean over half a million UK homes are losing around 4Mbps of broadband speed, according to research conducted by TalkTalk. The ISP claims that over the course of a year British homes will leak over 100 million megabytes of bandwidth capacity, more than enough to power BBC iPlayer continuously for 59 years.…