Penta Capital invested in TalkTalk in March 2021 alongside Toscafund, the London-based multi-asset investment management firm, via a £1.1 billion public-to-private deal.
TalkTalk is the UK’s leading value-for-money broadband provider. Having entered the market in the early 2000s, it now provides landline telephony, broadband and TV services to over 12 million people in over 4 million homes and businesses. Company’s business model is underpinned by a low-cost position driven by a scalable and extensive network, which covers approximately 96% of UK premises through TalkTalk’s 3,000 unbundled exchanges.
TalkTalk is led by a very experienced and ambitious management team, including its founder and significant shareholder Charles Dunstone. A number of the key members have worked well together for a decade and have delivered this transformation of the business. Our objective is to support management in creating value from the UK’s fibre to the premises roll-out which is one of the most significant changes in UK telecoms in the last 30 years.
TalkTalk is the UK’s leading value-for-money broadband provider. Having entered the market in the early 2000s, it now provides landline telephony, broadband and TV services to over 12 million people in over 4 million homes and businesses. Company’s business model is underpinned by a low-cost position driven by a scalable and extensive network, which covers approximately 96% of UK premises through TalkTalk’s 3,000 unbundled exchanges.
TalkTalk is led by a very experienced and ambitious management team, including its founder and significant shareholder Charles Dunstone. A number of the key members have worked well together for a decade and have delivered this transformation of the business. Our objective is to support management in creating value from the UK’s fibre to the premises roll-out which is one of the most significant changes in UK telecoms in the last 30 years.
Location: United Kingdom
Employees: 1001-5000
Founded date: 2003
Investors 1
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Mentions in press and media 15
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| 06.08.2025 | TalkTalk: Huge losses revealed amid job cuts and fleeing customers | The full extent of TalkTalk’s financial woes have been revealed for the first time amid sky-rocketing losses and huge job losses as customers move to other broadband providers. New accounts for the Salford-headquartered group filed with Com... |
| 11.07.2025 | BT powers ahead as UK tech services offer rare growth signal | BT Group has become one of the standout performers of the FTSE 100 this year, with its share price climbing over 34 per cent since January, and hitting a near five-year high. The telecoms and broadband giant is being closely watched as it r... |
| 04.08.2021 | Roundup: Extreme's Wi-Fi 6E AP, Broadcom chips for Europe, Airbnb's Wi-Fi test, Eero lands TalkTalk, 802.11ay published | By Claus Hetting, Wi-Fi NOW CEO & Chairman Extreme becomes second enterprise vendor to release a Wi-Fi 6E AP Last week leading enterprise-grade networking vendor Extreme Networks announced the release of their first Wi-Fi 6E access poin... |
| 19.01.2018 | 58% Rise in Fines for Spam and Data Breaches | Since August 2015, The Information Commissioners’ Office (ICO) has issued fines of £8.7 million to companies that have broken antispam and data protection law. The ICO has the power to hand out fines of up £500,000 to organisations that ign... |
| 27.10.2016 | A perfect darknet brew: Dumb systems, security gaffes, and data breaches | Enlarge reader comments 10 with 10 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit TalkTalk was recently hit with the biggest data breach fine in UK history following a clumsy, yet easy to prevent s... |
| 05.10.2016 | TalkTalk fined £400,000 for security breach | UK ISP TalkTalk hit the headlines last year for a data breach that resulted in the theft of personal data relating to over 150,000 customers. Today the Information Commissioner's Office announced that it has issued the company with a record... |
| 04.10.2016 | TalkTalk, Sky, and chums in final bid to convince Brits to bash BT | Enlarge BT Openreach reader comments 11 with 9 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit The countdown has begun, screams a ticking clock on the Fix Britain's Internet site, which warns Brits ... |
| 20.06.2016 | TalkTalk boss paid £2.8M after hack attack, MPs demand action on breaches | reader comments 5 with 5 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit TalkTalk chief Dido Harding has been paid £2.8 million by the budget telco in the past year during a period that included the... |
| 15.04.2016 | TalkTalk attracts new customers with low prices, but existing users want to jump ship | TalkTalk reader comments 3 with 3 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit British triple-play service provider TalkTalk has reportedly lost 126,000 customers in the first quarter of 2016, bu... |
| 06.11.2015 | TalkTalk says only 156,959 customers affected by cyberattack data breach | reader comments 12 with 11 posters participating, including story author Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit TalkTalk has finally released some exact details of the cyberattack that it suffered a couple of we... |
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