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Good Question: Are landlines getting phased out in November?
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Virgin Media O2 create new team in Newcastle to help handle repeat UK calls
1+ hour, 39+ min ago (521+ words) Broadband and mobile operator Virgin Media (O2) has today announced the creation of a new dedicated team of 150 agents in Newcastle, who will be responsible for handling repeat customer calls. The goal is to help the telecoms provider to boost first-time…...
Failed bidder Opus Broadband express frustration over TalkTalk UK’s sale to BT
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BT’s purchase of TalkTalk is cosy – but probably politically sensible
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BT rescue of TalkTalk to be probed by regulator – ‘rightly so’ says expert
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Before 1976, this Isle of Skye town relied on the UK’s last manual telephone exchange
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BT rescues TalkTalk from collapse amid worries over national security threat
11+ hour, 55+ min ago (627+ words) BT has bought struggling broadband provider TalkTalk out of administration for £400 million following fears its collapse could spark a national security threat. The telecoms giant said it had stepped in to save TalkTalk’s consumer division and its wholesale arm PlatformX…...
FIVE AT FIVE: BT rescues TalkTalk, National Grid powers up and Ithaca heads for Canada
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Q&A: Who is UVA’s resident ‘Wikipedian’?
20+ hour, 21+ min ago (340+ words) Lane Rasberry has spent more than two decades helping make information more accessible online. As the University of Virginia’s Wikipedian-in-Residence since 2018, Rasberry works at the School of Data Science on projects related to the online encyclopedia and expanding public access…...
Meta chases OpenAI, Anthropic with new AI coding app
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