TalkTalk 'safest internet' ad slammed by ASA after BT complaint

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Firm forced to withdraw adverts for potentially misleading customers

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled that a series of TalkTalk adverts claiming the firm offers the "UK's safest broadband" must not run again after it upheld a challenge from rival ...

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