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BUZZ-TalkTalk: rebounds as regulator piles pressure on rival BT

** TalkTalk rises 3.3 pct, rebounding off 4-year lows, after Britain's telecoms regulator says it will go to the European Commission to force rival BT to separate its Openreach broadband network ** Openreach is the division of BT Group that develops and maintains the UK's main telecoms netw

LONDON MARKET OPEN: BT Down, Sky And TalkTalk Up On Openreach Decision

UK regulator to go to European Commission to force change at BT's Openreach

LONDON, Nov 29 (Reuters) - British telecoms regulator Ofcom said on Tuesday it was preparing to go to the European Commission to try to force BT to legally separate its networks division Openreach after the two sides failed to come to a voluntary agreement. Ofcom, which put forward its plan

Broker tips: Man Group, Restaurant Group, TalkTalk

(ShareCast News) - Man Group slumped as Exane BNP Paribas downgraded the stock to 'neutral' from 'outperform'. "We see scope for a slowdown in flows as a consequence of flagging performance at AHL and at GLG. Performance issues are also likely to impact the long term outlook for management fee margi

TalkTalk slumps as Citi cuts price target

(ShareCast News) - TalkTalk was under pressure as Citigroup cut its price target on the stock to 150p from 230p and kept the stock at 'neutral' saying it was still too risky. The bank said the fall in the target price was due to cutting cash flow forecasts given lower earnings before interest, taxes

EXTRA: UK Telecoms Providers Welcome Hammond's Fibre Network Plans

Britain gives new fibre broadband providers $500 mln fund boost

LONDON, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Britain will provide 400 million pounds ($500 million) of funding to spur the building of more fibre-to-the-home broadband connections, the "gold standard" of speed in excess of 1 gigabyte per second only available now to 2 percent of premises. The government said

Redburn sees TalkTalk ditching dividends

(ShareCast News) - Talk Talk´s strategy of raising prices on a shrinking customer base was a poor proposition, even more so with growth in the overall market flat, analysts at Redburn said. Together with increased competition from the likes of Virgin Project Lightning and Vodafone, the prospects for

Cyber hack of UK's Three put 6 mln customers at risk -Telegraph

Nov 17 (Reuters) - Britain's Three mobile operator was hit by a cyber security breach that could put about 6 million of its customers at risk, the Daily Telegraph reported. The company admitted that hackers had successfully accessed its customer upgrade database after using an employee logi

TalkTalk sacrifices some earnings growth for customer loyalty

By Paul Sandle LONDON, Nov 15 (Reuters) - British broadband company TalkTalk said 300,000 of its customers had signed up to its new fixed-price contracts since they launched in October, improving levels of loyalty albeit with a cost in earnings growth this year. The company rebranded

FTSE 250 movers: Oil services stocks bounce, Kaz knocked off high

(ShareCast News) - The FTSE 250 index was on the up again on Tuesday, rising almost 0.5% to over 17,550 by mid-afternoon as oil-related stocks inflated on hopes of more oil price gains. Oil service companies Petrofac and Wood Group were among the top risers, with engineer Amec Foster Wheeler a

Teenager admits TalkTalk hacking offences

(ShareCast News) - A 17-year old boy has admitted seven hacking offences linked to the TalkTalk data breach in October last year. The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was arrested in Norwich last November following an investigation by the Metropolitan Police's cyber crime unit and ch

WINNERS & LOSERS SUMMARY: Intermediate Capital And Polypipe Surge

TOP NEWS: TalkTalk Telecom Turns To Interim Profit But Revenue Slips

TalkTalk first half pre-tax profits up

(ShareCast News) - First half pre-tax profits at troubled telecoms group TalkTalk rose to £46m from £14m as revenues fell by £10m to £902m. The company, which was fined a record £400,000 for failing to stop a cyber attack on its customer records, said it expected full year earnings before interest,