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uk businesses and 350 resellers that include voice and data specialists systems integrators and carriers . contents 1 history 2 products and services 3 market focus 4 references 5 external links history edit talktalk business was founded in 1995 as opal telecoms . talktalk business changed its name from opal telecom on 1 february 2011 . however it has its origins in many business divisions of telecommunications companies that have been taken over including pipex opal telecom freedom2surf nildram and tiscali . talktalk group trading as talktalk was founded in 2003 as a subsidiary of carphone warehouse and was de merged as a standalone company in march 2010 . key events 1995 opal telecom founded 2000 provision of first hosted inbound services 2002 acquired by carphone warehouse for 103m 2005 vartec telequip and the uk operations of one.tel acquired 2006 ecocall and totem acquired 2009 talktalk and carphone warehouse demerge 2010 opal becomes talktalk business to allow it to leverage talktalk group scale and brand . talktalk acquires uk operations of tiscali 2011 talktalk business acquired executel and v networks products and services edit talktalk business provide communication products from voice and broadband connectivity to high end ethernet and multi site mpls solutions . other products and services promoted by talktalk business include business phone lines ethernet in the first mile efm cloud hosting ipvpn unified communications uc and voip . talktalk business hosted data centre in corsham is based on a modular design and fully scalable campus infrastructure . access is protected by multi layered security with manned 24 7 monitoring multiple physical security perimeters and biometric scanning . market focus edit direct small businesses talktalk business provides products and services such as business broadband phone lines call recording and cloud hosting to small uk businesses in sectors such as retail manufacturing transport and financial services . direct enterprise products and services for enterprise level businesses include multi site wan solutions centralised it infrastructure and hosted solutions and applications . talktalk business provides uk based support including account management project management and technical consultancy . the partner channel talktalk business solutions for the partner channel are built over its next generation network . the company provides partners migrating to the network with a product roadmap to help them move away from legacy technology . talktalk business works with partners with volume requirements across the spectrum whether their customers are soho or sme corporate or public sector . talktalk business offer partners both managed and wholesale options . one major partner currently working with talktalk business is mitel . references edit external links edit official website v t e telecommunications industry in the united kingdom economy of the united kingdom science and technology in the united 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