BT making a bid to take over 02

[Anonymous]

Hey,  new customer here,  I have experienced terrible problems with BT customer service,  if 02 is taken over by them I will cease to have ANYTHING to do with 02.  BT is atrocious.

[Cleoriff]

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@jonsie wrote:

Ultimately you can only go off personal experience.

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Indeed that is true. I could extol the virtues of BT till I was red in the face....Someone else may have a completely different experience of them...

[iar1980]

Five interesting things you need to know;

http://www.uswitch.com/mobiles/news/2014/11/bt_o2_merger_five_things_you_need_to_know/

[iar1980]

Well EE talks officially confirmed

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/telecoms/11254722/EE-admi...

[Cleoriff]

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@iar1980 wrote:

Well EE talks officially confirmed

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/telecoms/11254722/EE-admi...

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I love the way they say 'exploratory discussions' @iar1980 

[MI5]

Or will BT buy both.....?
http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/bt-confirms-it-s-in-talks-to-bu...

[Anonymous]

BT will certainly NOT be allowed by the regulators to buy both o2 and EE as this would give them 55% approx of the market.

If a takeover takes market share over 25% it usually requires EU as well as UK approval however as BT don't have a mobile network that should be fine. BT may, however, have to cede some of their 4g capacity they purchased.

[iar1980]

Very True....

BT have nothing to lose as they can negotiate a better deal with either of the potential sellers.

It also seems our EU counterparts are looking to offload these providers. They are probably aware of something that is brewing in the longer term model of the EU...

[Anonymous]

I think the reason that these EU companies are trying to bail out of the UK market is because it is too competitive for them. The UK networks are not that profitable yet between them they are spending £ billions on upgrading networks. For such a resource intensive business they need profit.

[iar1980]

It's beginning to heat up now that Three Network could potentially be interested;

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/telecoms/11259356/3-set-t...

[jonsie]

All good for O2 but maybe not so for their consumers or for other network users....