TalkTalk network ?

d123

50Twuncle wrote: »

The nearest 4G signal to me is 40 + miles away - so that's no problem and I am already a TT customer - this appears ideal....(and cheap)

I would suggest you don't make any plans on the say-so of existing customers as TalkTalk is just about to move from Vodafone to O2. Any recommendations around network performance will mean nothing as their experience will be for use on Vodafone, not o2.

You need to check what O2 customers in your area feel about the network as that's the network TalkTalk will be on in the near future.

trinidadone

d123 wrote: »

I would suggest you don't make any plans on the say-so of existing customers as TalkTalk is just about to move from Vodafone to O2. Any recommendations around network performance will mean nothing as their experience will be for use on Vodafone, not o2.

You need to check what O2 customers in your area feel about the network as that's the network TalkTalk will be on in the near future.

OCE's (talktalk staff) suggested on the TalkTalk Members forum, the move to 02 will not happon this year

d123

trinidadone wrote: »

OCE's (talktalk staff) suggested on the TalkTalk Members forum, the move to 02 will not happon this year

As someone who has worked for a network I'll tell you a secret, staff who are at a level that post on the members forum will have absolutely no idea where the plans are for something as strategic as moving network.

It wouldn't be pleasant for the OP if he believed you and signs a 24 month contract only to find he has terrible signal where he wants it in 6 months (just a guess, no inside knowledge) when the transfer goes through.

I would say though, the agreement has been concluded, I would be surprised if the lead time was more than 12 months, that would be quite abnormal.

trinidadone

d123 wrote: »

As someone who has worked for a network I'll tell you a secret, staff who are at a level that post on the members forum will have absolutely no idea where the plans are for something as strategic as moving network.

It wouldn't be pleasant for the OP if he believed you and signs a 24 month contract only to find he has terrible signal where he wants it in 6 months (just a guess, no inside knowledge) when the transfer goes through.

I would say though, the agreement has been concluded, I would be surprised if the lead time was more than 12 months, that would be quite abnormal.

on the contray, it would also be unpleasent for the OP to miss out on a great deal which is due to end on the 21st January, because the op has been frightened off in some way.

concluded? where is your proof of this? actually it would be quite normal to run into next year as there is much still to address

trinidadone

OP, think carefully about the deals on talktalk, they will change in a few days. Vodaphone offers great signal for me and is the current provider for talktalk, thats what you need to work with right now.

d123

trinidadone wrote: »

concluded? where is your proof of this? actually it would be quite normal to run into next year as there is much still to address

The deal was signed last November, it's in the public domain if you would just try a little googling before getting all uppity with your "where is your proof"...

For example:

TalkTalk signs deal to access Telefonica UK's 4G service
3:00PM GMT 17 Nov 2014

TalkTalk has sought to steal BT’s thunder by signing a 4G agreement with Telefonica UK, the owner of O2, that it says will allow it to significantly undercut the mobile market.

The announcement on Monday was partly designed to ensure TalkTalk is seen as a serious mobile competitor before BT, Britain’s biggest telecoms operator, bolsters its bundle of services with its own consumer network next year.

TalkTalk’s new deal is for a so-called ‘virtual network’, effectively a rebranded version of the O2 national network. It will replace the company’s existing agreement with Vodafone, which was more expensive and does not allow TalkTalk to provide 4G services.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/telecoms/11235094/TalkTalk-signs-deal-to-access-Telefonica-UKs-4G-service.html

trinidadone wrote: »

Vodaphone offers great signal for me

It's never been with Vodaphone, the current network is called Vodafone.

trinidadone

i am not disagreed with you, that talktalk and 02 are not going to work together.

sorry if you found my last post "uppity" thats not my intention.

in regards to using the telegraph as a start date, mmmmmmmmmmmmm

thanks for letting me know about the spell check, blame the wine on that.

The op, i have posted a direct question for you on the talktalk members forum, this will give you information from talktalk themselves on a start date for 02.

time for me to go. interesting messages this evening, back to the wine

d123

trinidadone wrote: »

in regards to using the telegraph as a start date, mmmmmmmmmmmmm

If you don't like the Telegraph, how about uSwitch with direct quotes from Baroness Dido Harding and Ronan Dunne?

TalkTalk has taken steps to improve the quality of its quad-play broadband packages, by signing a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) deal with O2.

Under the multi-year agreement - signed with O2's parent company Telefonica UK - TalkTalk will gain access to O2's 2G, 3G and 4G services in the UK.

This means, for the first time, TalkTalk will be able to resell super-fast 4G mobile as part of its TV, home phone and broadband bundles.

The new deal - which replaces an expired MVNO agreement with Vodafone - should help TalkTalk increase the scale of its mobile business, while reducing costs.

At the end of Q3 2014, 350,00 consumers - 9.5 per cent of TalkTalk's subscriber base - took mobile services from the firm.

The availability of 4G mobile broadband may encourage more consumers to take out a quad-play broadband deal, rather than use more than one operator.

Dido Harding, Chief Executive of TalkTalk, said the agreement is "a significant development" for TalkTalk, building on the firm's success in mobile to date.

"We are ideally placed to benefit from the market shift to quad-play, with a sizeable and growing number of customers already choosing to take mobile from us," she stated.

"We see real opportunities in both the near term and further out, to work with Telefonica UK to further accelerate our quad-play growth."

Ronan Dunne, Chief Executive of Telefonica UK - which owns O2 - said the firm is "pleased" to sign an MVNO agreement with TalkTalk.

http://www.uswitch.com/broadband/news/2014/11/talktalk_gains_access_to_4g_mobile_through_deal_with_o2/

Collabora

I like this

Ronan Dunne, Chief Executive of Telefonica UK - which owns O2 - said the firm is "pleased" to sign an MVNO agreement with TalkTalk.

considering Telefonica are trying to get rid of the remaining part of o2 which Three are looking at taking o2 over, but everyone is waiting to see what happens with BTs takeover of EE

d123

Collabora wrote: »

I like this

considering Telefonica are trying to get rid of the remaining part of o2 which Three are looking at taking o2 over, but everyone is waiting to see what happens with BTs takeover of EE

Not quite, the journo hasn't got the fine detail right there. Telfonica S.A. (the parent company) are allegedly trying to get rid of Telefonica UK. O2 is just the trading name of Telefonica UK. The sale shouldn't have any effect in MVNO operation.

Ronan Dunne would probably be out of a job if Telefonica UK (O2) are sold.