AOL & Talktalk join up

Tallymanjohn

Have just heard on the news that Carphone Warehouse have bought AOL broadband - there's a marriage made in heaven!! TalkTalk & AOL together!!!!. Cannot find any web-links to confirm yet so if anyone can oblige..

WestonDave

BBC

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

:mad:

Having said that AOL are still messing up my home move so maybe it can't get worse!

bbb_uk

See CPW's corporate site here.

gav123_3

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6039740.stm

sorry westerndave didnt c your link utill i scrolled back up

gav123_3

AOL UK finds a home in Carphone Warehouse
By Bill Ray
Published Wednesday 11th October 2006 09:35 GMT

Carphone Warehouse has bought up AOL UK for £370m in cash, instantly bumping up its broadband customer base by 1.5 million.

The phone compnay will put £250m down with the rest to be paid on an instalment plan over 18 months. Last month the Times reported that BSkyB and Carphone Warehouse were battling it out for AOL UK, and now it seems that Carphone have won out and got themselves over 2 million new subscribers, even if 600K of them are still using dial-up connections.

Assuming the deal gets regulatory approval it should be all completed by the end of the year, making Carphone Warehouse the third largest broadband provider in the UK, after NTL and BT.

Since offering its “free” broadband service Carphone Warehouse have had 625,000 applications, and now have 421,000 connected subscribers, but this acquisition ups the ante considerably.

Equally interesting is a commercial agreement with AOL in relation to “the Audience business” which “provides Carphone Warehouse with a ready-made platform via which it can generate material incremental value from its large and growing customer base”. So this deal isn’t just about getting more customers, but about making some money from those customers too.®

mobilegossip

Just seen this on BBC news .

Info here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6039740.stm

"It will be keeping the AOL name and the US firm's policy of charging customers."


God help their customers.

elektra

Oh dear. Just ordered (6 days ago) to upgrade from dialup to silver with AOL. Will have to see how that works out - have not been sent any info yet. At least I'll have 7 days cancellation period.

Dial up extemely slow today

Beancounter

elektra wrote:

Oh dear. Just ordered (6 days ago) to upgrade from dialup to silver with AOL. Will have to see how that works out - have not been sent any info yet. At least I'll have 7 days cancellation period.

Dial up extemely slow today

I am on a monthly contract so will be leaving as soon as my £20 credit balance is used up. If you are on a 12 month contract my advice based on past experience with talk talk would be to cancel.

deanos

Blimey there is no need to panic yet folks :rotfl:

Beancounter

deanos wrote:

Blimey there is no need to panic yet folks :rotfl:

That's the Talk Talk effect for you:D

Micky

AOL and TT? Run away, run away ....