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TalkTalk has doubled its broadband speed, offering customers up to 80Mbps through a new fibre optic setup.

For an additional £15 per month, the telco will double a punter's maximum download rate from the 40Mbps introduced last year to a whopping 80Mbps. The peak upload speed is 20Mbps, TalkTalk said.

Punters considering making the jump to the new service can register their interest in TalkTalk's Super Fibre Optic Broadband from today.

To check whether the 80Mbps broadband service is available in your area, check TalkTalk;s fibre website and enter your postode. The full service will roll out from early April. ®

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I wouldnt go near Talk Talk

If the speed was 1000000Mbps per nano-second.

Their customer service is so bad it makes Three's look OK.

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Re: I wouldnt go near Talk Talk

To be fair skipper, your choice of ISPs does not show much for your judgement? You went to BT? Why?

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Re: I wouldnt go near Talk Talk

To be fair to TalkTalk, I was a customer of their's till very recently, and had no intention of changing. My broadband was always up, and I was always able to download at full speed, no matter what time of day or night.

Then I moved house, and their ineptitude came to the fore, every other provider reckons they can get you up and running in 5 working days, with TalkTalk its 10. Which I could have lived with, but it took two weeks (and 30 - 60 min phone calls every other day) for them to successfully receive the order.

BT managed it in reasonable time, but come weekday evenings, the speed drops to a consistently suprising level.

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