TalkTalk to Adopt Single Price for Broadband and Line Rental Bundles

50Twuncle

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2016/05/isp-talktalk-adopt-single-price-broadband-line-rental-bundles.html
And I thought that the government was pushing for people to be able to switch between suppliers with more ease ie) No more being tied to the same suppliers for phones as internet connections ?

kwikbreaks

Somebody was also pushing for more transparency in pricing (ASA? Ofcom?) and I'm guessing this is their response to that. Perhaps they will also offer individual products although SFAIK the only ADSL you can run on a TT line is theirs.

Should they decide to only sell bundles then my betting is that is their prerogative regardless of any preference the government may have.

GunJack

kwikbreaks wrote: »

SFAIK the only ADSL you can run on a TT line is theirs.

more to do with LLU kit rather than anything else, makes the bb stupidly cheap for them to provide, and no access for other ISPs to the TT backhaul. Same for all other LLU lines/providers I would imagine.....

stator

This is due to the new ASA rules:
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/7409-asa-solves-line-rental-crisis-in-broadband-world.html

onomatopoeia99

GunJack wrote: »

more to do with LLU kit rather than anything else, makes the bb stupidly cheap for them to provide, and no access for other ISPs to the TT backhaul.

TT sell wholesale backhaul over their network to other ISPs.

GunJack

onomatopoeia99 wrote: »

TT sell wholesale backhaul over their network to other ISPs.

but that's a different market to the consumer market, and are they also selling wholesale space on their DSLAMs/MSANs?