Re the red numbers, you will find they represent notifications of "likes" or mentions in a post on a thread. Private Messages will show up with a number on the message envelope to the right of the notifications bell.
@mandisa1-TT, the red numbers are not a complicated issue, though I have noticed recently that instead of then showing the number of messages on the bell, no number shows there. So that needs reporting. It still works for showing numbers if it's a PM.
Regarding "losing everything" / costs of Full Fibre:
Like the current situation, there will always be good deals offered to encourage customers to stay, or you can shop around.
While there are annual price increases @£3 each April, increased costs have been built in, covering the cost of the huge upgrades going on across the country to build new infrastructure. So whether on old or new lines, costs are heading inexorably upwards.
Customers have long since not been able to get a telephone only service with Talktalk and most other ISPs, so Broadband has been built into the phone service for many years, even for people who didn't have a computer or smartphone to make use of the Internet.
For better or for worse, we are being taken along a path of digitisation .... the only way to save costs would be to not install the Full Fibre, and use a local library / Internet cafe occasionally to keep up with communication from your bank, emails, bills.....unavoidable really unless you insist on paper billing.
Gliwmaeden2, a fellow customer.
