Sky buyout of O2 Broadband

StevieJ

bod1467 wrote: »

Does that include an Anytime calls package? if not then that is seriously expensive. (I'm with BE and I'm currently paying £13.99 for LL rental AND Anytime calls. Plus broadband of course - that's extra).

I pay £6.28 (no free calls) with Primus, I wonder how Sky are going to deal with the broadband only?

StevieJ

macman wrote: »

Your minimum contract remains in force, regardless of who now own it.

The told me because they had given me a free twelve months contract I could leave anytime without penalty, I wonder if they were telling lies and how that would be looked on by the courts

Gordon_Hose

The court would have to see those "lies" in black and white.

PDC

cepheus wrote: »

Service will go downhill now, and we will be paying a tyrant

I was dissapointed with this as I've been using o2 for home broadband for three years now and the service, and customer service, have been first class(Quite the opposite of their mobile customer service).


It seems I will now have to look for a new supplier as I'm no fan of the SKY brand and a colleague at work had it and eventually moved elsewhere due to speed issues.

Gordon_Hose

The Sky network is already massively oversubscribed in places. I hope they're going to look at capacity before migrating O2 customers.

Quentin

StevieJ wrote: »

The told me because they had given me a free twelve months contract I could leave anytime without penalty, I wonder if they were telling lies and how that would be looked on by the courts

Ask for them to confirm this in writing to you.

You are still in the cooling off period and can cancel if they refuse!

adandem

Gordon_Hose wrote: »

The Sky network is already massively oversubscribed in places. I hope they're going to look at capacity before migrating O2 customers.

This is why the takeover will take a while and be phased according to the O2 person I spoke to;)

macman

It could be argued that, since no consideration has been given in exchange for the service (since the entire minimum term is free), that no binding contract exists.
Rather depends who has the bigger lawyers-I suspect that Mr Murdoch does.

Gordon_Hose

Phased or not, Sky will still have to address capacity issues.

If my service suffers due to the influx of O2 customers I'll know it's time to move lol!

espresso

Gordon_Hose wrote: »

Once everyone is migrated onto Sky, I wouldn't be surprised if Sky sold off O2's infrastructure to offset against the cost of the acquisition. Then everyone gets the same service as existing Sky customers on the same exchange.

Sky are simply buying customers! Sky are only buying O2 consumer home broadband and home phone customers.

O2 wholesale will retain their wholesale network and customers, so only home broadband customers will be migrated over to Sky's network eventually.