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Saving opportunity: o2 home Broadband 1st year PAYS YOU!
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mk-donald
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Today TopCashBack £back referral of £70 for o2 home broadband Standard, combined with o2's offer of first 3months free, means that your first year (ie the contract commitment) of o2 Standard can leave you IN POCKET!
- pays you £2.50 net (if you/friend/relative have an o2 mobile or would use an o2 mobile PAYG)
- costs £27.50 (ie £2.29/month) if you wouldn't use o2 mobile PAYG credit
- costs £42.50 (ie £3.54/month) if you don't bother with an o2 mobile at all
o2 Standard is a usage uncapped ADSL2+ Annex A service, capped at 8Mbps modem synch but ONLY available at exchanges where Telefonica's Be/o2 LLU DSLAM kit/network is installed.
Even their o2 Premium, upto 24Mbps (ie not modem synch speed capped service) is only £10-£40-£55 net for ONE YEAR's usage, ie just £0.83/£3.33/£4.58 month!
MKD
(An o2 Standard subscriber since Oct 2007, and a satisfied customer.)
PS: Most people would say don't bother with "o2 home broadband Access" which is the resold ADSLmax service at the exchanges where Be/o2 don't have their LLU kit. The best deal/recommendation is for the "LLU" packages ie the "Standard", "Premium", and for the real enthusiasts with money the "Pro" packages.
PPS: I should of course in PROPER MSE mode remind you that CASHBACKS are never guaranteed until the money is in your bank a/c (though no reason not to expect getting the £ based on 2yrs observations). So ideally you'd move to o2 home broadband because it was cheaper/better ANYWAY, with the ££ as icing on the cake.
- pays you £2.50 net (if you/friend/relative have an o2 mobile or would use an o2 mobile PAYG)
- costs £27.50 (ie £2.29/month) if you wouldn't use o2 mobile PAYG credit
- costs £42.50 (ie £3.54/month) if you don't bother with an o2 mobile at all
o2 Standard is a usage uncapped ADSL2+ Annex A service, capped at 8Mbps modem synch but ONLY available at exchanges where Telefonica's Be/o2 LLU DSLAM kit/network is installed.
Even their o2 Premium, upto 24Mbps (ie not modem synch speed capped service) is only £10-£40-£55 net for ONE YEAR's usage, ie just £0.83/£3.33/£4.58 month!
MKD
(An o2 Standard subscriber since Oct 2007, and a satisfied customer.)
PS: Most people would say don't bother with "o2 home broadband Access" which is the resold ADSLmax service at the exchanges where Be/o2 don't have their LLU kit. The best deal/recommendation is for the "LLU" packages ie the "Standard", "Premium", and for the real enthusiasts with money the "Pro" packages.
PPS: I should of course in PROPER MSE mode remind you that CASHBACKS are never guaranteed until the money is in your bank a/c (though no reason not to expect getting the £ based on 2yrs observations). So ideally you'd move to o2 home broadband because it was cheaper/better ANYWAY, with the ££ as icing on the cake.
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im looking for new broadband at home - does anyone have any experience of o2 broadband? using quidco I can get £80 cashback plus 3 months free. we are on o2 for the mobiles already, so it'd cost me £10 per month for premium service. is this any good? - am currently on virgin L broadband:xmastree:0
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im looking for new broadband at home - does anyone have any experience of o2 broadband? using quidco I can get £80 cashback plus 3 months free. we are on o2 for the mobiles already, so it'd cost me £10 per month for premium service. is this any good? - am currently on virgin L broadband
The Premium LLU Service is excellent. The Access Service is very poor. The supplied modem/transceiver is something that either just works, or gives a lot of problems. There is a useful customer forum on the O2 website
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im looking for new broadband at home - does anyone have any experience of o2 broadband? using quidco I can get £80 cashback plus 3 months free. we are on o2 for the mobiles already, so it'd cost me £10 per month for premium service. is this any good? - am currently on virgin L broadband
Tina it will depend how short/good your phoneline is - assuming you DO have a BT based phoneline as it's NOT available over Virgin cable phone.
It will need you to very close to your o2/Be equipped telephone exchange to get approaching 20Mbps (is that what you are on with Virgin nowadays?), and only if you have a short-medium length/quality line that you'll get 10Mbps. (I'm "long" and get around 4.5Mbps.) That said o2 usually gives you 84% of synch as USABLE data bandwidth, whereas I understand that Virgin cable often does NOT deliver that reliable a proportion of the "nominal" 10/20Mbps capacity.
If you do have a BT line and are near enuf then the o2 Premium Service, which should cost you NET just £10 for a YEAR's service - COULD deliver you upto 24Mbps down. The o2 LLU service typically DOES deliver the full technical data capacity of c84% of the synch speed your modem achieves.
Worth just putting your number in the o2 website checker to be sure (a) you can get the o2 Std/Prem/Pro services (b) as even if the kit IS in your exchange there is the CHANCE it may already be full (it DOES happen every now and then). Of course do later clear cookies etc and go via your preferred cashback site if you do decide to signup.
In my docs (link above) you'll find links to the public ThinkBroadband o2 forum which ANYONE can contribute to - ie not just o2 afficianados - you'll find o2 LLU packages (NOT o2 Access) regularly TOP the customer satisfaction tables, let alone Value For Money ones! It's only because I have had 2.5yrs excellent service AND value that I take the time to make others aware of this (too hidden?) gem of a service.
The free loaned "o2 box" is an o2 firmware tweaked Thomson modem/switch/router/WAP which most people have few issues with; the only systematic flaw/weakness being that its WiFi throughput seems to top-out at around 11Mbps based on quite a lot of feedback (oh to be so lucky, lol!)
MKD0 -
FYI: Today Quidco, another leading £back website, have also raised their £back levels to those of TopCashBack as reported above.
MKD0 -
Aargh! I ordered before it got raised to £70!! I'll ask if they'll give me the extra - one can only hope!Tough times never last longer than tough people.0
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owitemisermusa wrote: »Aargh! I ordered before it got raised to £70!! I'll ask if they'll give me the extra - one can only hope!
Nah sorry, your relationship for ANY £back is with the £back site, and they are 99.999% likely to tell you where to go if you ask them to replace the actual £back offer you shopped via, with another one you later found that clearly wasn't available at the time you accepted the original offer
Hopefully the £50 you were expecting as £back did track properly!
Meanwhile the Std/Prem/Pro package £backs are still at the £70/80/90 levels with NO deadline published yet, though I wouldn't expect them to survive the calendar month end - but only time will tell. The current £ and 3months offer is nearly the best it's ever been £75/£100/£125 + 3months.
This offer is proving very popular over on HotUKDeals site!
MKD0 -
Been looking at this, as an O2 customer and a member of the cashback site, looks like an attractive deal. My current ISP is Tiscali (well Talktalk now), and for the last week or so the connection keeps dropping in the evenings. There's been a few lengthy outages over the past year as well.
How do I go about changing. Is it as simple as signing up with 02 and they'll do everything, or do I have I have to quit talk talk, ask for a migration code etc?
My phone line is still with BT, but landline calls with Talktalk0 -
Retford_Red wrote: »Been looking at this, as an O2 customer and a member of the cashback site, looks like an attractive deal. My current ISP is Tiscali (well Talktalk now), and for the last week or so the connection keeps dropping in the evenings. There's been a few lengthy outages over the past year as well.
How do I go about changing. Is it as simple as signing up with 02 and they'll do everything, or do I have I have to quit talk talk, ask for a migration code etc?
My phone line is still with BT, but landline calls with Talktalk
Do not cancel TT, just ask them for your MAC and then sign up with O2.
If you cancel with TT then you will get a gap in service and a bill for a cease charge of about £40.No free lunch, and no free laptop
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Do not cancel TT, just ask them for your MAC and then sign up with O2.
If you cancel with TT then you will get a gap in service and a bill for a cease charge of about £40.
So I get a MAC code from TT, then during the signup process with 02 give it to them, and hey presto, simple as that?0 -
Yes. Remember to sign up via Quidco though.No free lunch, and no free laptop0
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