| Home Broadband Landline Mobile Business | | | | connected via BT's wholesale IP Stream |
| Customers - sign up online now at | | | | service, and then migrated at a later date at |
| | | | no extra cost to them. The first customers |
| Free Broadband | | | | will go live from the beginning of July 2006. |
| | | | |
| How in the worldwide web can TalkTalk offer | | | | In addition to the monthly fee, all customers |
| broadband for free? Well, it's only possible | | | | will pay the standard monthly line rental |
| thanks to something called local loop | | | | charge of £11.00. |
| unbundling. Without getting too technical, we | | | | |
| can now use our own equipment to supply UK | | | | To support this strategy and to generate a |
| homes instead of having to rent it from BT. | | | | more rapid payback on our investment, we |
| This means we can slash our costs and our | | | | intend to deploy our exchange infrastructure |
| customers never have to pay for broadband. | | | | as quickly as possible. Based on current |
| | | | forecasts, we expect to reach our initial |
| Customer offer | | | | target of 1,000 exchanges by May 2007. In |
| | | | addition, we will invest substantially in |
| For a monthly fee of £9.99, TalkTalk | | | | marketing and customer acquisition. |
| customers will receive: | | | | |
| | | | Charles Dunstone, Chief Executive Officer, |
| Unlimited local and national landline calls, | | | | said: |
| 24 hours a day | | | | |
| | | | "Our approach to business has always been |
| Unlimited international landline calls to 28 | | | | about how little we can afford to charge our |
| countries, 24 hours a day | | | | customers, rather than how much we can get |
| | | | away with. So today we are cutting more than |
| Up to 8 Mbps broadband access | | | | 60% off the cost of the average UK |
| | | | residential telephony and broadband bill, and |
| This offer is available from today to all | | | | additionally providing unlimited calls to 28 |
| customers in all 1,000 exchange areas, | | | | international destinations. The residential |
| covering nearly 70% of the UK population. If | | | | telecoms market in the UK will never be the |
| the local exchange has not yet been | | | | same again. From today, broadband is a right, |
| unbundled, the customer will initially be | | | | not a privilege. |