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Re: National security alert as TalkTalk risks insolvency within days

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Tweed <usenet.tweed@gmail.com> writes:

> grinch <grinch@somewhere.net> wrote:
>> On 25/09/2026 21:29, Richmond wrote:
>>> Oh dear. I wonder if customers know? Also, customers of other
>>> providers who use TalkTalk.
>>> 
>>> https://uk.yahoo.com/finance/news/national-security-alert-talktalk-risks-190520368.html
>>> 
>>> "Whitehall is on high alert because of the threat that TalkTalk, the
>>> broadband provider, may go into administration within days and open
>>> up a national security vulnerability.
>>> 
>>> Security officials responsible for Britain's most critical
>>> infrastructure are in close daily contact with senior civil servants
>>> and telecoms regulators as they seek to ensure that TalkTalk is able
>>> to keep operating in the event of an insolvency.
>>> 
>>> It is feared that disruption to services could hit the Ministry of
>>> Defence and weaken Britain's security at an unstable moment in
>>> international affairs.
>>> 
>>> " No sensible business is going to buy them as a going concern ,they
>> will wait until they go bankrupt and the buy their customers much
>> more cheaply.
>> 
>> Then move customers over to your own network and get rid of the old
>> network and as many of its staff/offices as you can ,100% being the
>> goal.
>> 
>> I speak from personal experience
>> 
>
> TT is effectively two outfits. There’s the consumer facing ISP and a
> rather more professional outfit supplying backhaul. The latter has
> value, the former practically no value. Their retail customers are
> probably the ones that no rational ISP would want as customers. Those
> customers were largely focussed on getting service at the lowest
> possible price, and many of them are poor credit risks. They aren’t
> really going to add value to any business taking them on in bulk. The
> government via ofcom seems concerned that some very vulnerable
> customers are at risk of losing service. If no willing volunteer
> company comes forward I can see BT being arm twisted into being the
> supplier of last resort.

I was perhaps lucky to move away from Co-op broadband, as my line was a
ADSL talktalk line. I could have been high and dry, judging by some of
the comments on X about not getting responses from TT.

I wonder how many other ISP use talktalk lines?

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National security alert as TalkTalk risks insolvency within days Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2026-09-25 21:29 +0100
  Re: National security alert as TalkTalk risks insolvency within days David Wade <dave@g4ugm.invalid> - 2026-09-25 23:23 +0200
  Re: National security alert as TalkTalk risks insolvency within days Tweed <usenet.tweed@gmail.com> - 2026-09-26 09:35 +0000
    Re: National security alert as TalkTalk risks insolvency within days Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2026-09-27 09:18 +0100
  Re: National security alert as TalkTalk risks insolvency within days grinch <grinch@somewhere.net> - 2026-09-26 09:38 +0100

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