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Why TalkTalk Business?
Why TalkTalk Business?
We’ve got over 20 years’ experience supporting businesses of all sizes, giving them the right communications platform to thrive.
Next Generation Network
We’ve invested a huge amount in developing our Next Generation Network and it’s become one of the largest, most connected all-IP network in the UK.
Awards
Whether it’s our award winning team, our industry leading products or our exceptional service, we’ve been winning awards for the last two decades.
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- Why does Business Ultrafast Fibre matter to my business?
- Business New Year’s Resolutions
- FTTP FTW! New Research: Full Fibre Most Energy-Efficient Connectivity Method
- Five myths and misconceptions about Business Ultrafast Fibre
- Getting up to speed – Everything you need to know about Business Ultrafast Fibre
- Ready to supercharge your connectivity?
- Controlling costs is just one reason to move to cloud
- The New Business Wi-Fi Hub
- Business as unusual - making homeworking work for the new normal
- Working from home - is residential broadband up to the job?
- What’s the value of an empty desk? How homeworking could help balance the books
- Mitel Platinum Partner - We did it again!!
- Get an hour back every day
- What is a Leased Line?
- One thing you never hear in the office
- Prepare for the workplace of 2025 today: 3 simple steps
- 5 things you should consider before moving to the cloud
- What will the future of collaboration look like?
- The Northern Agenda
- How will machines unleash your business’ potential?
- Are UK workforces ready for the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’?
- What we learnt at Accelerate Her 2017
- Saying goodbye to legacy systems - ensuring a migration is trouble-free
- 5 tips to for a better work-life balance
- How our network investment helps digital transformation
- Telco forecast: what to expect in 2019?
- 4 connectivity options to consider when building a resilient network
- Hosted Voice – It’s time to make the move
- 3 reasons why you should consider Business VoIP in the next 6 months
- 4 top tips for hiring the best staff
- Businesses in the Gigabit fast lane
- A beginner's guide to CPaaS
- Soapworks - A home to be proud of
- 5 TED talks you won't want to miss
- 5 reasons to consider an IPVPN solution
- You’re busy right? But are you as productive as you think?
- Collaborating with Openreach to clear Britain’s Ethernet installation backlog
- World Cup 2018: Watch it, tweet it, stream it
- 4 tips to thrive on Black Friday and Cyber Monday
- The Future of Retail
- Flexibility and connectivity for the modern era
- Helping Manchester based SMEs succeed in 2021
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- Join us in making the climate crisis history
- Lockdown Lessons
- Mental Health and Wellbeing: Helping our Colleagues
- Delivering Net Zero Carbon Emissions by 2030
- TalkTalk Business Critical Infrastructure Update
- How to help your staff get the most from their home connectivity
- TalkTalk Business picks up “Best Business” award at ITSPA this year
- Partner Restructure
- Britain's businesses prepare for hyper- speed
- Employees want tech to improve productivity
- 1 in 3 British employees expect more workplace flexibility in the next decade
- Peace of mind matters. So why leave your resiliency to chance?
- Only 1 in 5 workers see AI as a threat
- Are businesses ready to cope with tech advances?
- Preliminary FY17 Results
- TalkTalk Business Awarded Mitel Platinum Partner Status
- UK workers say OMG to RFID chip tracking
- Spend on Small Business Saturday up 15% to £717 Million
- TalkTalk Business launches new suite of Cloud-ready connectivity products
- TalkTalk Business appoints Duncan Gooding as Chief Operating Officer
- TalkTalk launches FibreNation
- TalkTalk Business first to launch business-grade broadband packages to address huge surge in working from home
- A rapid response: how we’ve delivered critical connections during COVID-19

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A rapid response: how we’ve delivered critical connections during COVID-19
Since the Coronavirus outbreak began, we’ve all been online more than we used to be. And whether it’s accommodating new, flexible ways of working, or requiring bandwidth to operate multiple devices simultaneously while the whole family’s at home, the UK’s need for robust, reliable connectivity has never been clearer. While we’ve seen a slowing in activity for many businesses, some key organisations have seen their role become even more vital. To cope with increased demand during pandemic, many critical organisations have reached out to us with urgent requests for enhanced connectivity. And we’re proud to have answered the call and delivered robust solutions, fast.
Since the outbreak began, we’ve provided rapid responses to 1,176 requests from organisations like the NHS, the Fire Service and leading national supermarkets – in as little as 24 hours, in many cases. Working alongside our partners, we’re playing an important role in keeping the UK connected and supporting the vital work of these organisations, to ensure that the nation is protected and cared for during these challenging times.
- 18 NHS hospitals – we’ve delivered connectivity to hospitals all over the UK, including the Nightingale in London, so that frontline workers have everything they need to look after their patients.
- We’ve provided clinicians with extra bandwidth, so they can perform remote consultations, and upgraded connectivity and functionality at NHS sites up and down the country, including 107 doctors’ surgeries and 38 care homes.
- 19 fire stations have reached out to us too. We’ve supplied enhanced connectivity to these critical sites and enabled one prominent Fire and Rescue service to handle increased call volumes in the wake of COVID-19. This type of project usually takes 65-90 days, but in collaboration with Openreach, we delivered two Ethernet circuits in less than three weeks.
- 130 schools - we’ve supported connectivity requirements for this vital part of the nation’s infrastructure, so teachers continue to care for and educate the children of key workers.
- 180 supermarket locations - we’ve worked with a leading, national supermarket chain on an emergency strategy to maintain the food supply in the UK. We’ve upgraded bandwidth at nearly 200 new click and collect locations, following the spike in demand on basic food items.
How has our netowrk performed?
While our movement is restricted, the internet is enabling us to work, shop, learn, be entertained and stay connected. For many businesses, this vital connectivity plays a crucial role in keeping them operational, and high-bandwidth apps like Microsoft Teams and Zoom have almost become ubiquitous for keeping in touch with their workforce and their customers.
Unsurprisingly, overall usage of our network has increased by 30%, but our engineers have worked around the clock to optimise our network and make sure we can handle the rise. As more and more of our customers conduct business by phone, we’ve also witnessed a 10% rise in voice traffic, and our network is now accommodating 6 million voice calls every day.
We’re proud with how our network has been able to handle this unprecedented increase in activity. This outcome is the result of the time and investment we’ve put in to building a business grade network that delivers a fast, reliable experience for our customers. And findings from industry regulator Ofcom, published in May, confirm our network truly is industry leading.
Ofcom’s data shows that on average over any given 24-hour period, we have the fastest average download speeds on both our Faster Fibre and Superfast Fibre products versus BT, Sky, Plusnet and Vodafone equivalents to those products*.
This means that if you’re on our business grade Superfast Fibre package, as well as enjoying unlimited usage, on average you can experience some of the fastest start up speeds on the video conferencing programs mentioned above or simply when loading web pages.
TalkTalk Business is proud to support 300,000 businesses of all sizes across the UK, which equates to 15% of businesses operating nationally. If your business could you benefit from our business-grade, superfast connectivity, please contact our team on 0800 458 4581 for small business information and 0808 163 3868 for information relating to mid and Enterprise level businesses.
*According to data from Ofcom, the industry regulator, comparing average download speeds over 24 hours (in November 2019) for TalkTalk's Faster Fibre and TalkTalk's Superfast Fibre versus BT's Fibre Essential and BT's Fibre 2, Sky's Superfast Fibre, Plusnet's Unlimited Fibre and Plusnet's Unlimited Fibre Extra, Vodafone's Superfast 1 and Vodafone's Superfast 2. The data can be found here and here.
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