Telecoms giant TalkTalk has partnered with utilities supplier Home Telecom, which is the preferred utilities supplier for some 4,000 sales and letting agents around the UK.

TalkTalk says it has signed the partnership with Home Telecom’s parent company in response to the huge changes within the broadband and energy marketplaces over the past 18 months.

These have put the utilities switching market on hold as homeowners and renters have stopped switching utilities provider as unit prices have ballooned following the war in Ukraine.

Home moving is now one of the few times when people switch provider, and that’s why TalkTalk has sought to enter the estate agency-driven utilities sector.

Home Telecom has been well-known within the estate agency sector for some 25 years and has a 4.6* Trustpilot review rating despite the often stressful process of moving involved.

Home Telecom helps movers sort out their council tax, water supplier, broadband, energy, TV and mobile while its parent company TAL operates a range of other providers within the utilities sector.

Aggressive

Nigel Barnett (main pic), TAL founder and CEO says: “over the last 30 months we have made four strategic acquisitions underpinned by aggressive organic growth.

“As the whole industry focuses on fibre to the property the opportunity to be aligned with a company with presence in over 3000 exchanges across the country and agreements in place with the leading fibre Altnets, means we can offer our clients the very best service from any major provider.”

Nick Gunga (pictured), MD of TalkTalk Consumer Wholesale Services, adds: “We are pleased to be increasing our support to the partnership with TAL as it continues to grow. This is part of our continuing long-term growth strategy of TalkTalk Consumer Wholesale Services, the fastest-growing wholesale provider in the market.”