Cheap o2 Broadband: 20 Mbps Unlimited package for £5.17/month

espresso

Ice wrote: »

erm weren't O2 Bt anyway....
:rolleyes:

No, BT sold off its Cellnet mobile operation in 2001 via a stock market flotation as it wrestled with massive debts.

O2 is owned by Telefonica Europe who provide fixed and broadband services in the UK, Ireland, Germany, the Czeck Republic and Slovakia.

:rolleyes:

JimArnold

Martin wrote

It's possible for anyone with a BT line to get unlimited download broadband for £6.40 a month or even less if you are an existing o2 customer.


No - only if you live in London or one of the other exchanges where O2 has its own equipment the rest of us get charged £17-50 for a limited service

espresso

JimArnold wrote: »

Martin wrote

It's possible for anyone with a BT line to get unlimited download broadband for £6.40 a month or even less if you are an existing o2 customer.


No - only if you live in London or one of the other exchanges where O2 has its own equipment the rest of us get charged £17-50 for a limited service

Certainly not just London, exchange list here.

sasha_108

Really want to go for this but am tied in to my Orange contract for another 2 or 3 months. I would be happy to pay the £30 and move to o2 now but how can I do it? Would I need to ring orange to cancel or get my mac code? I am guessing I would be without broadband for a while too?

espresso

sasha_108 wrote: »

Really want to go for this but am tied in to my Orange contract for another 2 or 3 months. I would be happy to pay the £30 and move to o2 now but how can I do it? Would I need to ring orange to cancel or get my mac code? I am guessing I would be without broadband for a while too?

Don't cancel, ask for your MAC and supply this to O2 when you apply. You should only be without broadband for a short time while it is switched over.

sasha_108

Even if I'm not at the end of my contract? I wasn't sure I would be able to do this. Just want to give them my money and get the MAC code!

ElleWoods

I've just started the process of changing from Talk Talk as my BB and landline supplier. Arranged for BT to take over the line again and that will happen on 16th Jan - this offer ends on 9th Jan so would I be able to apply, as until 16th Jan my landline will still be with TT?

Thanks,
CC x

noddingdonkey142

so can you do this deal if you have a Mac Key?

mk-donald

As a very long standing o2 Home Broadband subscriber, just wanted to help people as a few bits of finger trouble seem to have crept into the original article.

o2's cheapest home broadband subscription is an UPTO 8Mbps service provided using the latest ADSL2+ technology, called/priced thus:

o2 Standard @ £12.23/month, reduced to £7.34/month for o2 mobile contract/PAYG customers (not sure where the £7.20 came from)

It's available at about 1,200 Phone Exchanges where o2 and their sister Telefonica company Be (aka Be Un limited & BeThere) broadband have their own equipment.

At those exchanges o2 also offer faster/higher spec packages called Premium and Pro at higher costs but with their current sale (which began 26 Dec) you can get the first 3 months free! The highest Pro package even includes the latest/fastest spec 'n' standard wireless modem/router. No indication of how long the 3m free Sale offer will be available until.

At most other exchanges you have to make do with the o2 Access package, which is just an o2 rebranding/reselling of the "generic/industry standard" BTwholesale ADSL/ADSLmax service offering upto 8Mbps, but possibly far, far lower depending on where you live. (As o2 are buying in the service from BTw the price is as high as their own Pro package.)

Quidco have in the last few minutes updated their website to clarify:
"£70 for Standard, Premium or Pro home broadband (Does not include Mobile or Business Broadband Packages)"

So would appear that o2 ACCESS subscribers will NOT get any cashback.

More details/ideas of issues re the actual service (rather than the cashback deliberations) in a features/comparison document I regularly update at
http://cid-99aa6cf1226facfe.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/o2 Broadband -v- Be There Broadband
(leads to folder containing the latest Adobe PDF document - c170KB size) .

For those wondering: o2 accept migrations in via MAC to all their packages, and you don't have to have the MAC to hand when you are completing the online form. As with all Quidco offers you need to make sure you do the right things with cookies etc etc.

(As some have mentioned o2 Mobile sometimes offer (loyal) subscribers a deal, occasionally a very good deal, on o2 Home Broadband in an effort to keep them.)
MKD

mk-donald

Cuba_Cat wrote: »

I've just started the process of changing from Talk Talk as my BB and landline supplier. Arranged for BT to take over the line again and that will happen on 16th Jan - this offer ends on 9th Jan so would I be able to apply, as until 16th Jan my landline will still be with TT?

Thanks,
CC x

You can always try but I think as soon as you put your number into the o2 broadband online checker it will say to the effect "this isn't a BT line" and that they can't provide service. Worth trying anyway to see what it does say. Remember the usual Quidco caveats about clearing cookies (maybe using a separate browser etc) to try to maximise chance of correct cashback tracking/credit.

So it's likely you will be too late back with an eligible line, but don't be too disheartened as (a) from time to time in the past few months o2/Quidco has been £60 so while this £70 is the best offer so far, it isn't in a totally different ballpark and might yet be almost attainable; (b) I never got ANY quidco as I joined pre their usual £25 cashback offer, and still have no regrets at all about what I'm paying - ie £7.34/m currently (plus topping up an o2 PAYG mobile with at least £10 a quarter).

MKD