Life after O2 Broadband

shaggy

Quite a happy customer of O2 Broadband (Im on the old Max Package) even after they upped the price to £9.50.

Problem is I'd like to move my mobile away to giffgaff as they offer a better deal more suited to my mobile usage. That would then mean Im not a customer of O2, so the broadband charge would go up (£15? £20? I am not sure).

So I have been looking at alternatives:

- Virgin unlimtied bundle with phone approx £20 (I'm not in a cabled area)
- Sky unlimited: £10 but I think that requires taking their phone line?, and of course sticking with Sky TV as a customer

But whichever alternative I look at has loads of negative comments against it in forums such as this.

All I want is unlimited (or at the very least, 40Gb), and one which does not do any sort of traffic shaping.

What are my options?

pimento

It will go up by £5 a month. Keep an o2 PAYG SIM and top up by £10 every three months and you'll still be up on the deal.

slipthru

If you really need to move i can recommend sky LLU, been with them for a few months now and no problems with the service, except when bt cut through a cable at the exchange.

I'm not a sky tv customer and i haven't taken the phone package so am paying £15 a month.

Avoid virgin if it's the broadband that is provided through bt as i don't think that they have a good service.

But if your happy with service you might as well stick with o2 and keep a payg sim and top every three months.

macman

Totally agree with pimento, the O2 legacy packages were great, Once you've switched, you cannot go back to them again.
You can use any available 02 mobile number for the discount (friend/family/relative)-it doesn't have to be your phone.