BT's EE or O2 Takeover - Good idea or not?

[Bambino]

This article's author isn't too enthused about the idea. I tend to agree.

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-12-16/if-british-telecom-buys-o2-or-ee-omg?cmpid=yhoo

[Beenherebefore]

Mmmmhh......Mr Gilbert seems to have a "thing" about BT.....not unusual, but plenty of others are quite happy with them.

[Cleoriff]

I found the article quite damning @Bambino I know the author has stats in front of them in order to write what they did......but in terms of BT I have had nothing but excellent service from them.

I can only speak from my personal experience of course...:smileywink:

[Anonymous]

I remember the BT of old and when I had dreadful broadband everyone locally was saying go BT but for months I didn't dare. Then eventually with download speeds of less than 0.25mb with Sky I bit the bullet.

So glad I did. Suddenly I was achieving 7mbs all day and all night. Then when fibre came I decided to treat myself to the top pack and at home I get 74mbs most of the time and nearly always over 60. On a couple of occasions I needed tech support, solved first time each time. Only one issue with BT was when I moved from adsl to fibre but that was easy enough once I got the right person.

So IMO BT much better than they ever were.

[Bambino]

I guess it's always going to come down to personal preference and experience. The author is using Ofcom as his statistical source, so I don't think you could argue with that. I've had both good and bad experiences with BT and with Sky. In a month's time I'm about to embark on my first foray into the land of Virgin Media, so that will be interesting. I'm looking forward to my 152 MB download speed. 

[viridis]

My last experience of BT?
Phone bill for £278 for calls made automatically on the hh2 digital phone.
Instead of the router calling for updates each night, the voip phone was doing it and staying connected for 59:59 each and every night.
By said I was responsible so I asked for a full itemised bill.
I then got a termination of services letter and a refund of 50 odd quid.
Very odd

[viridis]

UP TO 152mb

[viridis]

Make sure your cables are cat 6 and not 5 too

[Bambino]

I know it's 'up to'. Max I can get from BT at the moment is 38 MB because of my distance from the exchange, so down the cable is bound to be faster.

[Beenherebefore]

---

@viridis wrote:
Make sure your cables are cat 6 and not 5 too

---

Why ?