Building the group, one base at a time

From Home Telecom in 2010 to seven live brands today, TAL has grown by acquiring residential broadband customer bases and integrating them without disruption to the customers who come with them.

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26+
Acquisitions
80,000+
Customers
7
Live brands
28+
Years’ heritage
What we do

We buy residential broadband bases and look after the customers who come with them

Each acquisition is brought into one of our brands and our UK-based support team in Horsham, with each base handled in the way that suits it best. For the customer, service carries on as before.

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Every conversation starts under NDA.
Customers stay protected
Your customers, staff and brand stay protected throughout.
Proven acquirer
26+ completed acquisitions, integrated without disruption to customers.
Our journey

From one brand in 2010 to seven today

2026
2 bases acquired

Origin, and 11,500 TalkTalk customers

From 1 August 2026, around 11,500 customers from TalkTalk’s consumer division joined Fleur Telecom: 7,000 broadband and 4,500 line rental customers. Customers moved without any new equipment or engineer visit.

Origin customers also joined the group in 2026.

TalkTalk
Origin
2025
Acquired · 29 August

Earth Broadband

TAL acquired the brand and 4,000-strong customer base of eco-friendly ISP Earth Broadband from its administrators, adding a sustainability-led brand to the portfolio. Earth is now being relaunched.

Earth Broadband
2024
6 bases acquired

Six customer bases acquired

No One Internet, Cuckoo, Zybre, Link Broadband, EzeTalk Residential and Gigabit Networks all joined the group during 2024, adding to group EBITDA as each base moved onto our shared systems and support. June 2024 alone brought 2,800 residential customers from EzeTalk Residential and the residential base of Gigabit Networks on the CityFibre network.

No One Internet
Cuckoo
Zybre
Link Broadband
EzeTalk Residential broadband base, acquired by TAL
Gigabit Networks
2023
2 bases acquired

Neatley and Homeshift

Two customer bases joined the group within a month of each other, both integrated through our subsidiary Home Telecom.

Neatley
Homeshift
2022
Acquired · July

Hive Telecom, and new partnerships

Hive Telecom was acquired in July 2022 from GCI, now known as Nasstar. The same year, we formed new partnerships that helped us grow faster and take on more customer bases.

Hive Telecom
TalkTalk
2021
Acquired · March

Eclipse Broadband

Acquired from KCOM. Set up in 2001 and bought by KCOM in 2004 as an out-of-area broadband business, Eclipse had 35,000 customers at its peak. The base included several business customer opportunities too.

Eclipse Broadband
2020
Acquired

Fleur Telecom

Acquired from Giacom, a wholesale supplier. Fleur looks after customers in rural areas across the UK, where traditionally only BT direct would supply, and has over 23,000 properties using our service.

Fleur Telecom
2012
Acquired · approx.

Bulldog Broadband

Founded in 2000, Bulldog was an industry pioneer that passed through Cable & Wireless, Pipex, Tiscali and TalkTalk, with 150,000 customers at its peak. It is now part of the Home Telecom brand, and several thousand of its customers are still with us today.

Bulldog Broadband
2010
Launched

Home Telecom

Global 4 entered the residential marketplace with Home Telecom to partner up with estate and letting agents across the country. We offered their tenants phone and broadband services to match the term of their tenancy agreements, and were able to provide flexible arrangements to over 40,000 customers.

Home Telecom
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