Since the owners of Virgin Media and O2 launched their £31 billion merger last month there have been more question marks about the ability of Talktalk to compete (Alex Ralph writes).
Yesterday its full-year results showed a resilient performance, but a company still facing uncertainty over its longer-term position in a consolidating market and in an industry shifting towards “converged” services of broadband, mobile and fixed-line telephone.
Talktalk, led by Tristia Harrison, is now three years into a strategy focusing mainly on providing broadband services, in a return to its roots. It is seeking to capitalise on more demand for data consumption, up 40 per cent year on year, driven by video streaming, online gaming and cloud storage services.
Demand has been accelerated by
