http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21627614 All ill say is where is my MAC Code got limited intrest in joining skys monopoly board.
I am a O2 broadband user and this news makes me very sad .just ot the email from O2 http://www.o2.co.uk/broadband/broadbandchanges theres abit more info http://news.sky.com/story/1058630/bskyb-to-buy-o2-home-phone-and-broadband been with O2 since 2004 only had one problem which they fixed the next day as it was a major fault with the line
I do like the sound of this The company said O2 and BE's broadband customers will be switched to its all-fibre network and that it might also pay up to £20m to Telefonica UK for the successful completion of the migration process. the question is how much
Don't really know what everyone is worried about, I've been on Sky Fibre Unlimited for the last few months and my connection has been rock solid with awesome ping and no packet loss. The only issue I have with them is that they don't let you use third party routers and limit some fairly basic settings in their own routers (e.g. setting DNS servers). Other than that the Sky hub actually seems pretty decent. I used to be on O2 and didn't find their connection/service to be any better - would people really rather switch to BT?
That excuse I've been looking for, it just got thrown in my face! Where's my MAC?! I'm out! Deal breaker. Actually worse than a deal breaker. I won't touch any ISP with a barge pole who won't let me use my own (far superior) hardware.
Lots of very unhappy bunnies here,I include myself in that statement. http://blog.bethere.co.uk/2013/03/a-new-future-for-be-with-sky.html#disqus_thread
Why's this such a bad thing? Be/O2's customer service wasn't great before hand, and they've been bought up by a provider that doesn't do any traffic shaping. The 3rd party router stuff is a ballache, but there's no way they'll be migrating that any time soon.
To be fair I found BE to be very good customer service. I agree though its pretty much the same service so as long as my bills don't go up I'm not really bothered. BE don't traffic shape though, o2 do massively.
Great move by Sky, now set to become the second biggest BB supplier in the UK. O2/Be provided an excellent product, as do Sky, which will now be coupled with Sky's great customer service. As for routers, the new Sky hub is pretty damned good - got one for myself recently.
Really? Whenever I phoned to sort something out the rolling 24h support seemed to put me through to retards in the US. I have never spoken to someone more stupid than the girl I got on the first day of Be connection.
Really? Weird I've never been put through to the US, they always seem to pick up the phone pretty quick too. More than can be said for virgin
I recently changed from Sky to Plusnet. Sky were only offering 40/10 Fibre. I think I only ever had one problem with the connection and it was sorted swiftly through ringing Sky. I always had the full 17Mb speed it synced at, no issues at all with the speed. It's a shame the use of your own router breaks the terms of use but the one I had (a Netgear DG934G) never hicupped and it was quite configurable. I think I must've downloaded about 120GB in a month at one time and not one eyelid was batted.
