More in this HEXUS.headline.The TalkTalk home phone and free broadband service looks to have got off to a flying start. According to the preliminary annual financial report of parent company Carphone Warehouse, 340,000 customers registered for free broadband for life in the first eight weeks to June 5.
Carphone Warehouse says that it is on schedule to have its own gear installed into 200 local exchanges by July when its free broadband service begins - the longer-term target is 1,000 by May 2007.