It would appear that low-cost telephone charges and value for money broadband services have seen TalkTalk Broadband increase its share of the UK broadband market with an additional 42,000 new broadband customers in the first quarter of 2010. The company now has around 4.2 million subscribers in the UK and is currently the fastest growing [...]

Next week’s official separation of the Carphone Warehouse consumer electronics business and TalkTalk broadband is expected to attract much interest from investors with TalkTalk broadband already been mentioned as a potential takeover target. The Carphone Warehouse operation is currently valued at £1.7 billion although after the demerger of the Carphone Warehouse retail operation the TalkTalk [...]

TalkTalk Broadband, which is currently part of the Carphone Warehouse group, is rumoured to be about to launch a four part bundle package which will give customers access to broadband, landline telephone services, mobile telephone services and broadband TV. This would place the company in direct competition with Virgin Media which is currently offering the [...]

Carphone Warehouse, the parent company of UK broadband outfit TalkTalk, has issued a statement confirming that trading is ahead of expectations and the company is expecting an improvement on recent profit forecasts. The company also revealed an increase in its broadband subscriber base from 4.119 million in the second quarter of 2009 to 4.155 million [...]

A quick look around the UK broadband sector confirms the surprising situation which sees TalkTalk broadband and Sky broadband as the only two companies in the sector which have no exposure to the mobile broadband market. While there is no specific reason why the companies have no exposure to the sector, with Carphone Warehouse (the [...]

Rumours are spreading through the City that Carphone Warehouse is looking to spin off its broadband business as a separate entity from the mobile phone operation. It seems as though Charles Dunston, the founder and chief executive of the overall business, is looking to release as much shareholder value as possible from the ever-growing broadband [...]