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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

#57783 — National security alert as TalkTalk risks insolvency within days

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.

"

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#57785

On 25/09/2026 22:29, 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.
> 
> "
Been on the brink for ages. From today's Times:-

"The company supplies telecommunications services to a small number of 
Ministry of Defence sites as a third-party reseller, but it is thought 
that the sales process is unlikely to interrupt the services since there 
is at least one other supplier to prevent disruption."

Dave

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#57787

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. 

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#57795

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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#57788

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

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