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BGonaSTICK · 04-07-07, 02:13 PM

Carphone Warehouse's local-loop unbundling telco, TalkTalk, has announced that it's cutting the price of its "free" DSL service. This concept may push the boundaries of logic, but let's recap: last year, TalkTalk announced it was offering DSL service at no extra cost if you signed up for its PSTN offering.

Despite the fact that this isn't "free", it was heavily publicised and led to a wave of other not-free free broadband offers. Carphone was a victim of success, struggling to keep up with the demand; its plans were based on figures for the cost of serving customers using its own DSLAMs under local-loop unbundling, but it found it hard to deploy its gear into BT local exchanges fast enough.

That forced the firm to resell BT's IPStream wholesale DSL service, at rates which lost it money. This doesn't seem to have put CEO Dunstone and the rest of the company off, though. Prices are coming down. Originally, customers had to pay £10.50 a month for line rental, which is staying, plus a further tenner's worth of phone calls. This element has been cut to £5.89 a month, so long as you sign up for 18 months and cough up a "connection charge" of £29.99.

It's cheap, but it still isn't "free".

Unknown user #1 · 04-07-07, 03:34 PM

Well... I had a BB contract with TalkTalk. IMO they can stick it you know where... It was the worst DSL provider I eve came across and their customer service sucks big time. Even NTL CS was better and it says something.

04-07-07, 02:13 PM	#1 (permalink)
BGonaSTICK Dodgy Geezer Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Brighton Posts: 9,718 Thanks: 3 Thanked 163 Times in 57 Posts	TalkTalk cuts price of free broadband Carphone Warehouse's local-loop unbundling telco, TalkTalk, has announced that it's cutting the price of its "free" DSL service. This concept may push the boundaries of logic, but let's recap: last year, TalkTalk announced it was offering DSL service at no extra cost if you signed up for its PSTN offering. Despite the fact that this isn't "free", it was heavily publicised and led to a wave of other not-free free broadband offers. Carphone was a victim of success, struggling to keep up with the demand; its plans were based on figures for the cost of serving customers using its own DSLAMs under local-loop unbundling, but it found it hard to deploy its gear into BT local exchanges fast enough. That forced the firm to resell BT's IPStream wholesale DSL service, at rates which lost it money. This doesn't seem to have put CEO Dunstone and the rest of the company off, though. Prices are coming down. Originally, customers had to pay £10.50 a month for line rental, which is staying, plus a further tenner's worth of phone calls. This element has been cut to £5.89 a month, so long as you sign up for 18 months and cough up a "connection charge" of £29.99. It's cheap, but it still isn't "free". __________________ Dreambox 7000, Skystar2 PCI, Skystar USB, Fibo 90cm on Moteck SG2100, Triax TD110 multi-LNB. Sky + ART cards. 45.0°E - 58.0°W

04-07-07, 03:34 PM	#2 (permalink)
Unknown user #1 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 536 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: TalkTalk cuts price of free broadband Well... I had a BB contract with TalkTalk. IMO they can stick it you know where... It was the worst DSL provider I eve came across and their customer service sucks big time. Even NTL CS was better and it says something.