The vision is for fourth-ranked TalkTalk to become an affordable fibre provider
Will a history of epic failure mean a name change could be in order?
The UK’s fourth largest broadband provider, TalkTalk, has commended a £1.1 billion offer to its shareholders to take the company private. The deal sees its shares valued at 97p, well below a pre-Covid offer made to TalkTalk’s board last year by Toscafund which, like TalkTalk’s founder, Sir Charles Dunstone, holds about 30 per cent of the company.
TalkTalk was formed as a division of the retail chain, Carphone Warehouse, and was spun off, along with Dunstone, in 2010.
Negotiating the complexities of international transfers of personal data
How to navigate international data transfers, standard contractual clauses and the impact of Brexit on data protection
Share this item with your network: By Published: 14 Dec 2020
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” The words of William Shakespeare certainly ring true in the context of a number of a notable developments in the area of international transfers of personal data in recent weeks.
First, the EU Commission issued new draft standard contractual clauses (SCCs) to facilitate compliant transfers of personal data out of the European Union (EU). Hot on the heels of the EU Commission, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) – the European privacy regulators meeting together – issued draft guidance on the measures that should supplement SCCs in respect of international transfers. These developments, combined with the implications of Brexit, make for a ve