Sky to launch PICNIC a broadband service for non sky users.

utilitybroker

"Sky's successful drive into broadband is set to shift up a gear in November when it will launch a package aimed at the UK's 10 million-plus Freeview households.
Sky Broadband launched last year after the group bought Easynet, but currently only supplies existing TV customers as part of a bundle. It offers up to theoretical 16MBit/s ADSL via the Easynet local loop unbundled network for £10 per month. Non-TV customers can expect to pay a bit more.

Multiple sources inside the company have indicated that Sky will pitch its standalone ISP service under a new brand called Picnic. Customers will be supplied with a Netgear DG834GT v4 router, which is currently being tested by Sky's engineers for any glitches when connected to its network"


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/29/sky_freeview_broadband/

It would not surprise me if they started offering Sky Talk to Non Sky TV customers also.

Farway

Thanks, even though I doubt if I will use it it will be very handy if they have launched when my Virgin ADSL £10 deal is up in Jan 08:rotfl:

mk-donald

Well I had my ADSL service on my BT phoneline, moved by e7even from a 1Mbps BT circuit to "upto 8Mbps" EASYNET a couple of years ago 'as an upgrade' and it was a really POOR service at both technical and logical level.

The circuit was only ever reliable at sub 2Mbps synch and later had had a day's downtime as 'Easynet equipment at the BT exchange had failed". The WORST bit was the inability to MAC migrate from the LLU circuit back to BT - a situation which I believe continues to this day although OFCOM intend to bring LLU circuits within MAC'ing eventually.

When e7even failed and I was left with a non-fuctioning Easynet circuit, it took nearly 3 weeks to be "free" of the LLU-ADSL, so I could then apply to have a new BT-ADSLmax service from Eclipse which has synched at between 3.0-3.5Mbps for the last 15 months = fine by me having known the pains.

mrnomoneybags

My Sky was a nightmare the first 2 months......... been with them 12 months next month......... always 7-8Mbps (ADSL2) with 768kbps up