o2 price increase

Sunnyday

BargainMad wrote: »

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

Thanks, i was wondering whether or not there was some sort of pattern to who was being offered what, seems not.

SD

Sunnyday

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.

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.

Some of these posters are on the connect side but others are claiming to be on other packages such as unlimited. http://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Broadband-Technical-Issues/Slow-every-night-after-7pm/td-p/10559/page/2

Worth a read perhaps?

SD

mathew1971

Looks like alot of people are having speed issues with SKY.

Although i dont want to on principle, i may stay with O2 and accept the £2.50 discount as i really dont think i am going to get a better service and price than £7 at present. My speeds are pretty good and have very few problems with them.

I can then look into a move in 12 months.

Anyone got any better suggestions.

Sunnyday

mathew1971 wrote: »

Looks like alot of people are having speed issues with SKY.

Although i dont want to on principle, i may stay with O2 and accept the £2.50 discount as i really dont think i am going to get a better service and price than £7 at present. My speeds are pretty good and have very few problems with them.

I can then look into a move in 12 months.

Anyone got any better suggestions.

I moved from Sky to O2, i had no problems for ages and then started getting the same problems that others had. It didn`t affect me too much as i work shifts so keep weird hours but O2 is definitely the winner if you are on one of the old packages. Lets see if we get O2 speed issue threads when people move over to the new packages - maybe not straight away but a few months into the contract.

I do think that you`ve made the right decision.

SD

Platypusgra

espresso wrote: »

:doh:

Bite their hand of if you want but if you do, consider yourself to have been mugged by O2.

You may be a newbie on here but that is no excuse for not reading the posts in this thread before posting.

:mad:

I must respectively say that I may be a newbie but I have read ALL the posts again and found no one else quoting the same deal as I have received!!!
O2 have offered me a loyality offer of...

Taking their combined home phone and broadband package I pay only £7.66 line rental + £5.11 "anytime package =£12.77 rising to aprox £13.77 from March 31st and they are giving me
12 MONTHS FREE "The Works" BROADBAND ON A 12 MONTH CONTRACT (not 6 months like all the other posts).
As I said in my last post all I have to pay for the next 12 months is £13.77 per month for both my home phone and broadband.

Quentin

You are currently paying £7.66.

But they want you to swap to a £21/£26 package.

You won't be able to go back to your unlimited and un traffic managed deal once you have taken the shilling!

BargainMad_3

I think you got a cracking offer there and I could easily see you saving £200 over the year.

During my retention call I was offered 12 months free broadband but I am sure it was the all rounder pack plus I had to move my line over to o2 and the line rental had to be taken with a calls package as well so there were conditions. I think the 12 months free broadband is their standard offer for moving your line and calls....but like you say yours comes with The Works.

Someone has mentioned The Works is traffic managed so that might be the only drawback to what is a very good offer. BT line rental alone is going up to more than £13.77 in April !

BargainMad_3

Quentin wrote: »

You are currently paying £7.66.

But they want you to swap to a £21/£26 package.

You won't be able to go back to your unlimited and un traffic managed deal once you have taken the shilling!

This person was on Pro (legacy pack) - going up to from £17.50 to £21.50 a month. They were offered line rental plus anytime calls plus The Works (free) all in for £13.77 a month on a 12 month contract.

But as you say...moving to a traffic managed deal.

macman

Platypusgra wrote: »

I must respectively say that I may be a newbie but I have read ALL the posts again and found no one else quoting the same deal as I have received!!!
O2 have offered me a loyality offer of...

Taking their combined home phone and broadband package I pay only £7.66 line rental + £5.11 "anytime package =£12.77 rising to aprox £13.77 from March 31st and they are giving me
12 MONTHS FREE "The Works" BROADBAND ON A 12 MONTH CONTRACT (not 6 months like all the other posts).
As I said in my last post all I have to pay for the next 12 months is £13.77 per month for both my home phone and broadband.

Great if you are planning on leaving O2 in 12m. But if you aren't, you'll be paying a lot more long term.

rev_henry

macman wrote: »

Great if you are planning on leaving O2 in 12m. But if you aren't, you'll be paying a lot more long term.

Then you can just try the same thing again in 12 months.