Fibre optic broadband being trialled by TalkTalk
The broadband industry often seems hell – bent on confusing customers with a variety of strange words, which include the use of the words ‘speed’ and ‘fast’ in a number of combinations. Other abbreviations like NGA, FTTC, 21CN and FTTP are also good examples.
Therefore, when considering the latest trials to be done by TalkTalk, any talk about it will be kept simple with ‘Fibre-Optic Broadband’, which is what they are going to trial over the next few months. It will be able to deliver upto 40 Mbps downlink with a guaranteed minimum of 15 Mbps. Uplink speed can be expected to be either 5 Mbps or 2 Mbps, which is better than most ADSL packages out there.
In terms of network, TalkTalk will be bringing fibre – optic cables closer to your home. Generally, users get internet via the copper cables, but the fibre – optic broadband trial will involve getting rid of the copper wires and using fibre – optic cables. That will increase the speed of internet connections. The DSLAM facility in these connections will ensure that you will have good internet connectivity regardless of how near or far away you are from your nearest exchange.
Therefore, in the next couple of weeks, TalkTalk will be enabling customers in Muswell Hill, North London, to first experience fibre – optic broadband. This technology will be initially revealed only to a small set of customers and staff. However, come October, more customers in Muswell Hill will be invited for the trial. The trial will be extended to Whitchurch, Cardiff. Trialists will be given a new modem as well as a router and one of their engineers will visit the customer’s home in order to install the telephone socket. Continue checking out their website, and if you are in these areas, you can register for the trial and you could be the first in the country to try out TalkTalk’s fibre – optic broadband.
Source - TalkTalk Blog
Deadline for Digital Heroes Awards has been extended
The entries for the Digital Heroes Awards, being conducted by TalkTalk, have been pouring in since July and in order to balance the competition, they have called for a larger number of entries, more specifically from Northern Ireland, Scotland and East Anglia.
Therefore, they have decided to keep the nominations open for at least another week before they open it up for public vote. Therefore, everyone has a chance to put in an entry till the 18th of September. Keep in mind that you can nominate yourself or someone you know as a digital hero, so don’t feel shy.
TalkTalk’s cash grant to Iain Rennie Hospice at Home (IRHH) last year empowered nurses with laptops. As IRHH doesn’t possess a hospice building, nurses have to care for 900 patients yearly in the patient’s house itself, meaning that that nurses spend a lot of time travelling to their patients’ house across the Chilterns.
A nurse there, Michelle Gedling, tells how laptops have helped out the nurses’ job. She said that before they had the laptops, the only mode of accessing info on patients was through the computers in the offices situated in Chalfont St Giles or Tring. Now, she said, she is able to know all about the patient’s medical history before she visits them, regardless of where she is, and is also able to update the patients record immediately, resulting in better support for the patients.
Bullying UK also got an award last year. Their founder, John Carnell, said that the 2000 pound donation helped them achieve a lot. Just under 20,000 posters have been printed with the money, thereby saving schools nearly 80,000 pounds in costs for printing posters from suppliers.
It’s heartening to see the effectiveness of these grants in the country. Some of the entries have been read by the staff of TalkTalk and the selfless and amazing work that many people have done on charitable projects using technology have been amazing to read. Deciding the winners for this year may not be easy.
Source - TalkTalk Blog
Benefit financially from TalkTalk’s broadband advertisements
The attention – grabbing broadband ad campaign of TalkTalk continues to roll on. This time, they seem to have taken a cue from the Random Acts of Kindness movement as well as from Fagin of the novel Oliver Twist in equal measure.
In a new ad spot, the former pickpockets become emissaries of TalkTalk by surreptiously putting back money into the general public’s pockets. In addition to this cash, they are also given a slip with an explanation of the source of the money.
The whole point of this ad is that TalkTalk are actually giving people back the money that they have spent unnecessarily with the other broadband service providers.
You can watch this clip on YouTube now. However, if you fancy getting a tenner yourself from TalkTalk for yourself, then you would have to go now to Covent Garden, Oxford Circus, Trafalgar Square, Westminster, Leicester Square and The South Bank between now and August – end.
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