MSE News: Sky to launch its own O2-powered mobile network

Tony5101

oxters wrote: »

Fair enough but is your line rental from sky?
Were BT customers affected too?

Mine is Sky rented, and when my internet speed was dreadful, sky wouldn't send out a BT engineer to check the line unless I undertook to pay the fee if there was nothing wrong. I knew where that would take me so I hung on and it improved eventually. I might be wrong, but I felt if I had been a BT customer, things might have been different?

What has all of this to do with sky operating an MVNO mobile network?

wiogs

oxters wrote: »

Fair enough but is your line rental from sky? Yes
Were BT customers affected too? No

Mine is Sky rented, and when my internet speed was dreadful, sky wouldn't send out a BT engineer to check the line unless I undertook to pay the fee if there was nothing wrong. That is how it works with any supplier. If it is a line fault up to your master socket then BT OpenReach will deal with it. If it is within your home wiring then you pay for it. I knew where that would take me what does this mean? so I hung on and it improved eventually. I might be wrong, but I felt if I had been a BT customer, things might have been different?

You are wrong, things would not have been different.

wiogs

Tony5101 wrote: »

What has all of this to do with sky operating an MVNO mobile network?

Nothing but there appears to some confusion regarding oxters service from Sky.

oxters

Tony5101 wrote: »

What has all of this to do with sky operating an MVNO mobile network?

Good point, but I was thinking along the lines of existing sky customers being offered to take the O2/Sky mobile service and the possibility of (subject to Monopolies approval) BT (with a better network arguably) tempting existing EE/orange customers with a BT bundle that would steal the lot from Sky.