TalkTalk

  • TalkTalk signs up 160,000 new YouView customers

    TalkTalk signs up 160,000 new YouView customers

    TalkTalk says it signed up 160,000 new customers to its YouView-based TV service service in the three months to end June. The additions take its total number of TV customers to 390,000 in that period.  In a statement TalkTalk revealed that 26% of households are taking premium content including blockbuster movies and monthly subscriptions to…

  • TalkTalk offers Android smartphone for just £1.25 per month

    TalkTalk offers Android smartphone for just £1.25 per month

    TalkTalk Mobile has announced what could be theUK’s cheapest smartphone deal. The company is offering the entry level Huawei Ascend Y210 from £1.25 a month with no upfront cost for the first six months, then £5 a month for the remaining 18 months of the contract. The tariff is one of three ‘75 per cent…

  • TalkTalk offers three months free YouView, Broadband and phone

    TalkTalk offers three months free YouView, Broadband and phone

    ISP and TV provider TalkTalk is offering new and existing customers the chance to bag three months of free TV, calls and broadband. Customers signing up to The Big Free will get three months access to TalkTalk’s TV Starter Boost which includes Sky 1, Sky Living and Sky Arts plus free phone and broadband and…

  • TalkTalk Mobile bolsters low-cost Android range

    TalkTalk Mobile is offering customers a choice of Android smartphone or tablet for just £10 per month. The firm is offering the Huawei MediaPad Lite 7, a tablet with a 7″ LCD screen, 1GB of RAM and SD slot allowing up to 32 GB or additional RAM and the Huawei Ascend Y210 smartphone. It has…

  • TalkTalk adds Bollywood pay per view to YouView

    TalkTalk is adding Bollywood films to the list of movies on demand it offers via its YouView TV service. The company has signed a deal with Eros International to offer around 20 Bollywood films at a time, including hit Asian movies Chakravyuh, Dabangg, Khiladi 786, Milenge Milenge and Love Aaj Kal.   Viewers can rent…

  • Xbox One launch causes TalkTalk network spike

    Xbox One launch causes TalkTalk network spike

    Broadband provider TalkTalk says Microsoft’s launch of the Xbox One games and media console earlier this week caused “a big spike in traffic” on t its network. As the tech giant held two launch events simultaneously, in London and Seattle, traffic on one of the Content Delivery Networks within TalkTalk’s infrastructure rose from 80 Gigabytes…