TalkTalk suggests broadband, TV & phone quadplay imminent

TalkTalk could be the next provider to offer a quadplay mix of broadband, TV, home phone and mobile phone services if the plans of Charles Dunstone, CEO of Carphone Warehouse are anything to go by. He’s hinted that over the course of the next two years TalkTalk will be launching both a Canvas-based TV service and a mobile TalkTalk network.

This will come as no surprise to those that have been following Carphone Warehouse’s acquisition of Tiscali last year. Along with an established broadband network it also inherited Tiscali’s successful TV service.

According to a report by news site, The Register, TalkTalk is poised to sign up to Project Canvas – the standard streamed-TV platform. Speaking to the Financial Times, Dunstone stressed no final decisions had been taken on TalkTalk’s TV service, but he added: "We need to be able to deliver TV to people, and we need a platform to do that. I think Canvas is a really interesting opportunity for us."

Boasting more unbundled platforms than Tiscali ever had, fans of Tiscali TV should be won over by the provider’s scope for improved streaming quality.

By launching a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) TalkTalk looks set to go head to head against other "quad play" provider Virgin Media. At first, it plans to focus on selling the product to its 4.2m existing broadband customers.