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TalkTalk Offer A Year’s Free Broadband & Phone
TalkTalk (talktalk.co.uk), in conjunction with the Carphone Warehouse, is offering new customers free broadband and phone calls for a year.
The deal, only available at the Carphone Warehouse or by reportedly calling TalkTalk on 0800 049 7865, means new customers can save £6.99 a month or £83.88 over the course of the year.
The incentive applies to TalkTalk’s Essentials plan which provides up to 8Mbps broadband with a 40GB usage allowance, a free wireless router and free technical support.
Free unlimited evening and weekend phone calls to UK landlines, plus free local daytime calls are also included.
To qualify, new customers simply need to pay a one-off connection fee of £29.99, plus monthly TalkTalk telephone line rental of £11.49. A 24 month contract applies.
After the first year, customers will need to pay £6.99 a month for the broadband and phone, plus £11.49 a month for the telephone line rental.
TalkTalk claim that the deal can save customers £245 compared to BT.
80% of UK homes are covered by TalkTalk’s next generation broadband network and thus can receive this deal.
TalkTalk Offer Users £250 For Home Naming Rights
Leading broadband and phone supplier, TalkTalk (talktalk.co.uk), is offering its customers £250 in order to secure naming rights to their home.
The innovative scheme means those homeowners who add the TalkTalk brand to their formal house address for a year will receive £250 in return.
South Croydon couple, Elaine and Darren Snow have already taken up the offer, renaming their house in Sanderstead, South Croydon to ‘TalkTalk Towers’.
Commenting on the renaming, Elaine Snow said, “Everyone says your house is your biggest asset so it makes sense to make the most of it.”
TalkTalk’s Communications Director, Mark Schmid said, “If the great sporting and cultural arenas of the nation can be renamed then why not individual homes? We aim to have 50 deals completed by the end of the year across the country and to do more next year.”
Schmid continued, “We are not averse to major sponsorships, after all, we sponsored the X Factor this year, but we were keen to develop a different type of sponsorship vehicle which really conveys what we’re all about – great value services for the home.”
Naming rights can be a money spinner with Arsenal’s The Emirates Stadium said to be part of a deal worth £100 million to the North London football club.
TalkTalk homeowners can rename their home using either TalkTalk Towers, TalkTalk Mansions, TalkTalk@ (e.g. TalkTalk@37 Acacia Avenue), The TalkTalk House or The TalkTalk Home.
Readers interested in securing £250 for selling their home’s naming rights to TalkTalk should email namingrights@talktalkgroup.com.
TalkTalk Bring Back Free Broadband Connection Offer
TalkTalk (talktalk.co.uk) has brought back its free broadband connection offer for new customers who join the ISP by the 15th December 2009.
The new incentive replaces the free Marks & Spencer vouchers offer that was originally due to end on the 3rd December.
The free broadband connection offer means customers switching to a TalkTalk phone and broadband package either online at the TalkTalk website or via the phone on 0800 049 7865 can save £29.99.
TalkTalk is the UK’s number one residential broadband supplier and offers two core phone & broadband packages known as the TalkTalk Essentials and TalkTalk Pro.
The Essentials package provides great value phone and broadband at the best possible price of £6.49 a month.
The package includes broadband speeds up to 8Mbps, a 40GB usage allowance, a free wireless ‘G’ router, plus free technical and customer support.
Evening and weekend calls to UK landlines are included together with anytime local phone calls and offpeak calls to 0845 and 0870 numbers.
TalkTalk Pro, at just £14.99 a month is designed for users who require a high-performance unlimited phone and broadband package.
Broadband speeds are higher at up to 24Mpbs, while there’s no monthly download usage cap. A free wider range wireless ‘N’ router is provided together with free customer and technical support.
Anytime phone calls to UK landlines and 0845 & 0870 numbers are included, with calls to UK mobiles discounted at just 6.85 pence per minute.
As TalkTalk has built its own next generation broadband network it’s likely that customers switching to the ISP will not need a MAC code from their existing provider.
Further information for our readers can found at our TalkTalk Broadband review.
TalkTalk Broadband In £30 M&S Voucher Give Away
TalkTalk (talktalk.co.uk) has announced it is giving away £30 Marks & Spencer (M&S) vouchers to new customers who sign up to one of its broadband and phone packages by the 3rd December 2009.
The UK’s leading broadband provider and X-Factor sponsor currently offers one of the most popular broadband and phone bundles in the market at just £6.49 a month.
Known as the ‘Essentials’ package, the £6.49 per month deal gets customers broadband speeds up to 8Mbps plus evening & weekend phone calls to UK landlines.
Unlimited anytime local phone calls are also included with TalkTalk stating that 70% of the calls their customers make are local.
TalkTalk’s next generation broadband network covers 85% of UK homes which means many customers switching from another provider will not need their MAC code.
TalkTalk will send the £30 M&S vouchers via post within 28 days of a new customers’ broadband going live.
Further information can found at the TalkTalk.co.uk website or by phoning TalkTalk on 0800 049 7865.
TalkTalk Launch 24Mbps ‘Pro’ Broadband Package
TalkTalk (talktalk.co.uk) has launched a new 24Mbps high performance broadband package, known as TalkTalk Pro.
Currently available to order by phone only on 0800 049 7865, TalkTalk Pro offers wireless broadband download speeds up to 24Mbps coupled with an unlimited download usage allowance.
Free anytime phone calls to UK landline numbers starting with 01, 02 and 03 are included together with free calls to 0845 and 0870 numbers.
TalkTalk Pro also includes a free wireless ‘N’ router which provides a wider range and fastest connection speeds, plus free technical and customer support.
Available to 80% of UK homes, TalkTalk Pro Broadband costs just £14.99 a month which represents a considerable saving of over £200 compared to similar offerings from the UK’s other leading broadband suppliers.
Commenting on the launch, TalkTalk’s Tristia Clarke said: “Once again TalkTalk is challenging the market and providing unbeatable value by offering a premium broadband product at a much lower price than its competitors’ packages”.
Clarke continued, “So if you’re one of the millions of people who now regularly use your broadband service to download and upload videos and images or stream media around the house, then our high-performance TalkTalk Pro package, giving you the fastest speed your line can handle, is perfect for you”.
Further details on TalkTalk Pro can found at the TalkTalk.co.uk website or by phoning TalkTalk on 0800 049 7865.
TalkTalk Claim 50p Broadband Tax Plan Will Backfire
TalkTalk (talktalk.co.uk) CEO Charles Dunstone has claimed that the Government’s proposed 50p broadband tax plan will backfire and actually result in 100,000 UK homes cancelling their broadband service.
The 50p broadband tax on every UK home with a landline has been earmarked by the Government to help fund the roll out of faster broadband services to rural areas.
However, Dunstone believes the tax will have a detrimental effect and result in around 100,000 low income homes dropping their broadband as they simply can’t afford it.
Commenting on the planned broadband tax, Dunstone said: “This is an unjust and regressive tax on all phone customers which will subsidise mostly richer rural households that can afford high priced super fast broadband services”.
Dunstone continued, “As well as being unfair we estimate that the increase in price will mean that over 100,000 mostly low income homes will be forced to give up their broadband lines. This is wholly inconsistent with the Government’s plans to tackle digital exclusion by increasing uptake and use of broadband”.
On Monday of this week, Andrew Heaney, the Director of Strategy and Regulation at TalkTalk, gave evidence to the BIS Committee, to outline TalkTalk’s concerns.
These concerns also included the possiblility that the roll out of next generation broadband to rural areas could be further delayed by the tax plan as private sector investors would wait for public funding to be made available.
Around £1 billion is forecast to be raised from the 50p per month broadband tax, which is expected to commence in 2010 and last for around 7 years.
Rather than introduce the tax now, TalkTalk believe the Government and Ofcom should concentrate on enabling private sector investment and ensuring effective competition.
