Making connections since 2003

March – Demerger process continues with TalkTalk and PlatformX Communications (PXC) trading as two separate businesses within the Group.

We turned 20 and celebrated two decades of providing fast, reliable broadband at great value prices.

TalkTalk Group announces that it will demerge into three standalone companies.

TalkTalk Business Direct is sold to a vehicle backed by its major shareholders.

We entered into an agreement to acquire telecoms company Virtual1, strengthening our wholesale offerings and furthering our status as the UK’s fastest growing provider of high bandwidth services.

We teamed up with eero, an Amazon company, to offer the award-winning eero 6 and eero Pro 6 mesh routers to our Full Fibre customers as standard. We were the first major ISP to offer revolutionary WiFi 6 router technology in the UK.

While the roads were quiet during the pandemic, online traffic soared by over 40%. Our network usage hit an all-time high on December 16th, thanks to the Premier League and some big gaming updates.

We launched FibreNation to rollout Full Fibre broadband to 3 million British homes and businesses, kicking it all off in Harrogate, Ripon and Knaresborough. The rollout built on our Full Fibre trial in York, which has seen the city benefit from Britain’s fastest internet.

We announced our decision to move our HQ out of London to Salford in the North West.

The Rapid 1 Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre to the Cabinet rollout began, bringing faster speeds to homes and businesses across the UK.

We brought Full Fibre to York, launching a 1GB fibre network and making it Britain’s first gigabit city.

TalkTalk TV arrived, quickly becoming Britain’s fastest growing TV service.

We became the first internet service provider to launch a whole-home filtering service, called HomeSafe®, to all residential customers at no extra cost. The aim was to keep families safe from suspicious websites and inappropriate content

We de-merged from Carphone Warehouse, becoming an independent company listed on the London Stock Exchange.

We began sponsoring X Factor, a partnership which continued for the following 10 years. We also acquired Tiscali UK and Pipex.

We launched free broadband, completely transforming the UK’s residential market. Our position as a challenger brand — determined to disrupt the established telecoms market — was established. We also acquired AOL Broadband from Time Warner, keeping it as a separate brand until 2015.

Local loop unbundling allowed alternative providers to place their own equipment in telephone exchanges, encouraging a new wave of competition and innovation. We also acquired Vartec, Telequip and OneTel.

We launched unlimited free calls between TalkTalk customers, our first big disruption to the industry.

TalkTalk was launched after the Government passed the 2003 Communications Act, aimed at encouraging challenger brands to disrupt the telecoms market. For the first time, customers were able to switch telephone providers without installing special equipment or having to dial a prefix.

Carphone Warehouse purchased Opal Telecoms, by now a fast-growing telephony reseller, providing fixed line voice services to more than 20,000 corporate customers and leasing modern fibre lines.

Opal Telecoms formed as a telephony reseller, providing fixed line voice services to corporate customers.