Talktalk Telecom Share Discussion Threads

[quepassa] 14/3/2017 10:11

The agreement by BT with Ofcpm to split off Openreach into a separate legal entity with its own Board is off course excellent news for TalkTalk.
The news is welcomed by TalkTalk and should now serve to level the playing field for all broadband providers.

ALL IMO. DYOR.
QP

[fenners66] 10/3/2017 09:33

I have played along with them - there's a problem with your computer - what computer? Yours . Oh you mean my work computer? Yes . Thats the one. Ok ! Its at work ! etc etc conversation just got stupid.
However subsequently I thought - one day recording your voice is going to be used against you so next time I'll keep stum. However I did find a telephone number to ring and report their number- turns out the police treat it as a crime and is reported accordingly.

[pierre oreilly] 10/3/2017 09:02

If I can be bothered, I just carry on with what I'm doing, with an occasional 'sure', 'didnt get that last bit', 'cant find that' into the phone every couple of minutes. They eventually get the message. Santander scammers have recently started calling too.

[wilkie_hk] 10/3/2017 08:52

The Indian scammers gave me a call last Friday trying to tell me that there was a problem with my router. I asked them to tell me precisely what the issue was to enable me to give TalkTalk a call back to discuss. Not surprisingly they hung up. Easy to deal with when you are middle aged like me and have all your faculties firing. TalkTalk need to do all they can to route out these scams though, as it reflect badly on the company.

[1gw] 10/3/2017 08:06

Eminence down again on 8th March, to 0.96% short.

[1gw] 07/3/2017 15:59

Disclosed short positions.

Big drop in Eminence Capital's short position yesterday - from 1.55% to 1.07%.

And yet the share price fell on the day.

[p@] 07/3/2017 07:56

See post 1154

[p@] 07/3/2017 07:44

Pine- Seems to be the 2015 scam that was tried on me,I told Talk it was a large operation as I could hear the same thing going on in the background.

[pineside] 06/3/2017 14:17

Inside the TalkTalk 'Indian scam call centre'http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39177981

[strutt12] 28/2/2017 18:52

My sell probably ;-)

[mrmark01] 28/2/2017 16:52

whats driving this higher today?

[trader2] 28/2/2017 08:19

TALKTALK - to deliver new TV experience with Ascendon

[septimus quaid] 24/2/2017 19:28

Hmm, my 153p averaging down seemed to be a good call.

Pity about the rest of my shareholding!

[1gw] 24/2/2017 14:54

Interesting theory Verulamium, but I'm not sure it stands much scrutiny. I don't think Haitong could have had much influence on the market given the wide coverage of talktalk by other companies.

Haitong had a £1.60 target on talktalk in May 2016 when most of the other better-known brokers were at much higher levels. And in the FY16 preliminaries presentation in that month talktalk listed 18 sets of broker estimates.

Talktalk currently lists 19 covering analysts on their investor site, including Goldman Sachs, B of A ML, Barcap, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank...

I think in this case, Haitong probably just got it right as far as their recommendation and target were concerned. Whether that's because of good analysis or good luck is more difficult to say.

[verulamium] 24/2/2017 14:39

Strange that Haitong have spent so long talking Talktalk down....I'm sure it would be nothing to do with helping another Chinese company buy them on the cheap. Should we expect a new Haitong target price of 90p before the bid comes?

[p@] 24/2/2017 09:19

just bought back in at 170.4p,think they will turn around or be bought out.

[quepassa] 24/2/2017 08:38

Interesting jump this week.

Why? Who knows but I suspect it is partly the growing recognition of the founder of TalkTalk, Sir Charles Dunstone returning in an Executive capacity.

And partly the whole sector (apart from BT) has been more buoyant with Voda above 200p, Telefonica doing well and completing its sale of Telxius. It should be noted that BT are reported in the press that they will soon start charging for their BTSports services which may stimulate churn at BT towards other operators.

Let's hope Sir Charles does for TalkTalk what Steve Jobs did for Apple when he returned..

Sir Charles has a lot to play for as the largest shareholder and that is always a very positive factor.


ALL IMO. DYOR.
QP

[trader2] 24/2/2017 08:04

TALKTALK-Bid spec :-Chinese & European firm may be interested(Telegraph)

[pierre oreilly] 23/2/2017 11:51

Probably realisation that it should never have dropped this far, or anywhere near, in the first place.

For some reason, this is driven atm almost wholly on poor sentiment from the hack. The fundamentals could easily support a price 3 times the current price. Maybe an institution is building a holding, to be followed by a sentiment changing tip from their broking arm in a couple of weeks.

[borg45] 23/2/2017 11:44

Anyone know why this has moved up?

[shroder] 19/2/2017 11:35

Contacted customer services this weekend, very good, marked improvement. Two contracts up for renewal soon, will stay with TT.

Link removed as data out of date, apologies.

[kangaroo joe] 19/2/2017 10:20

From what I have seen compensation for stupidity is now commonplace where a large company can be vicariously blamed in some way. I never bought PPI because it was very expensive and I decided against it. Yet it appears almost everyone who did buy it can get compensation even if they selected it for good reason. Similarly, TT scam victims who can trace the cause back to a data breach may well gain compensation and even if not the cost of investigating the cases will be high.

[verulamium] 18/2/2017 20:19

I doubt it. The "victim" didn't lose £6,300 because of the security breach, but because of either his stupidity falling for a scam or because he's not mentally fit to be in control of his own finances. Neither of these are Talktalk's fault. Did he really believe that Talktalk would proactively ring up about a fault, offer to fix it and then volunteer compensation?

[smurfy2001] 18/2/2017 12:47

Could this company end up paying allot of money due to the scams?



TalkTalk scam victims say it’s time for answers
As another customer explains how he was conned out of £6,300 after the firm’s security breach, the ICO is seemingly stalling while a class action moves closer