leaving Talk Talk to concentrate on selling broadband services
Stick to what you're good at, eh?
Beleaguered telco TalkTalk has swung to a net loss of £79m in preliminary results for fiscal '18 ended 31 March, and is preparing to saw off its B2B division in a planned £175m sale to Daisy Group. The loss was attributed to the costs of implementing a £119m turnaround and restructure plan that included ditching its MVNO …
As far as I know (which isn't very far, to be fair), Talk Talk's wholesale/B2B business was at least competent, and their offering was/is used by other ISPs (A&AISP being one). Selling off the part of your business that is competent, while retaining the part for which you are known for being crap at strikes me as a short-term proposition to raise money, usually described as 'selling the family silver'. I expect the direct to consumer business will be sold, or life-boated once the money has run out (again) to someone else in the not too distant future.
I'm a satisfied customer of A&AISP, others are very happy with Zen. They do cost more, but this is one case where it is true that spending more gets you a better quality service, rather than just being ripped off for more money.
Expect line speeds to plummet.
Why? I suppose that it might result in LLU ADSL customers being moved back onto BT's DSLAMs but there's no particular reason to think their line cards are any worse than TT's. Given that BT would prolly have to buy more line cards to increase capacity it might actually mean a slight increase in line speed due to more modern chipsets and/or 'younger' electronics. As for those on VDSL nothing will change because all ISPs are using openreach owned DSLAMs in the roadside cabinets.
Now if you actually mean that throughput speeds will drop then that's possible. Or at least it's possible that throughput at peak times might be worse. If the business is not doing well the ISP might not be able to maintain bandwidth availability resulting in increased contention at peak times.