o2 price increase

xyz123

Quentin wrote: »

Their website confirms some traffic shaping during peak hours with the works.

Can you please give me some details on this or point me to their website with a link?

I_luv_cats

O2 Traffic Management

Quentin

xyz123 wrote: »

What difference would there be between The works package compared to old package? i called them and i was offered line rental + evening & weekend calls + The works package + new router for £10 a month only. when i queried regarding difference between my existing legacy package (which was going up to £13 with new price increase) he said only difference is the new defined fair usage policy with limit of 100GB.

Seems he neglected to tell you the price difference - the works proper price (ie after your "sweetener/bribe") is going up to £26 (£21 if you are a mobile customer) from 1/4/11!

masted75

techno12 wrote: »

Just called and they wouldn't do the 6 months, so they're sending me that MAC and a Jiffy bag for the router.

I'm getting the same response from O2. they will only offer me the £2.50p/m discount, not 6 months free. Said that the discount is the only thing they can offer, and after i declared i want a MAC to leave in that case, they've simply sent me one. So how on earth do i get the 6 months free, like other people on here.
I'm on an old legacy tarriff, currently paying £7.66, out of contract, and have O2 payg mobile.

BigDonut

I_luv_cats wrote: »

http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/speed_guide/download_speeds.shtml

Plusnet have traffic management too - too much data to mull over!!!

Fair point, I hadn't read all the details. Looks like its no better than the o2 "new" packages.
Seems like o2 is the option then.

xyz123

are there many ISPs out there, who dont do traffic management?

Sunnyday

They ARE still offering the 6 months free as i`ve just got it.

After 6 months it will be on the new price of £9.50 per month so a decent saving and i`m still on the original standard/unlimited package with no traffic shaping.

The downside is that as i`m still on an old package they won`t allow me to have the landline line rental, they said i had to move onto one of the newer BB products

My line rental is still with BT so i called them up and said i was thinking of moving to O2 instead and have been offered a £3 discount on the line rental, free evening and weekend calls too. The only catch is that i have to enter a 12 month contract.

Quite a productive day really although, the O2 line rental would have been cheaper if i was allowed to have it.

SD

EDIT - Just a thought, are the peeps who are being offered the free 6 months pay monthly mobile customers? Has anyone on PAYG been offered the free 6 months?

techno12

Sunnyday wrote: »

They ARE still offering the 6 months free as i`ve just got it.

Yes, as I've said on here twice now they will offer anybody who's currently taking the '£5 discount for having an O2 mobile number' 6 months free, but they won't give 6 months free for those of us who don't claim the £5 discount. Mad.

Anyway, I've set the ball in motion with Sky who are far cheaper and offer higher speeds (max of 20 as opposed to 16 for legacy Premium)...

For me it's a no-brainer. Either sign up for another year with O2 for £13 a month (£5 retentions discount), or go with Sky for £10 a month, and get £50 Quidco cashback. The retentions guy I spoke to this morning said tough, it's £13 or leave.. so I left!

Sky don't throttle, do traffic management, or have a FUP so that sealed it for me, as I really liked O2's (and Bulldog before them) service and I'm used to clicking on a torrent, getting it at full speed for 10mins or however long it takes to download, and logging off. Don't want that protocol throttled to dial-up speeds!

FTTC is available now for me, but they're £40+ a month and have stupidly low limits or throttling. BTInfinity is tempting, but not the throttling of usenet. Yes I can work around it, but I shouldn't have to!

I reckon in a year or so it'll be better - hopefully Be etc will offer FTTC unthrottled.

BargainMad_3

Sunnyday wrote: »

They ARE still offering the 6 months free as i`ve just got it.

After 6 months it will be on the new price of £9.50 per month so a decent saving and i`m still on the original standard/unlimited package with no traffic shaping.


Just a thought, are the peeps who are being offered the free 6 months pay monthly mobile customers? Has anyone on PAYG been offered the free 6 months?

Both PAYG and Pay Monthly customers have got the 6 months free so it makes no difference.

BargainMad_3

techno12 wrote: »

Yes, as I've said on here twice now they will offer anybody who's currently taking the '£5 discount for having an O2 mobile number' 6 months free, but they won't give 6 months free for those of us who don't claim the £5 discount. Mad.

If only it were that simple.

That isn't the case I'm afraid.

I have an o2 PAYG and never fail to top up to get the £5 off every month and there was no 6 months free for me.