BT and EE merger.

[lachlan]

What I am curious about is whether @btinternet.com addresses will change to EE addresses

 

[ChrisC]

Indeed. I gave up waiting for them to put fibre of some sort into my village around five years ago and switched to Virgin for broadband only (no need of any other service). I was told by the engineer that came to fit the kit that this was an extremely common set-up in my village and he was regularly installing broadband only set-ups as people got fed up of waiting for BT to upgrade their network but had no need of the other services that Virgin had on offer.

Honestly don't know how I made it as far as 2017 on little more than 3Mbps on a good day! Just having a look now looks like they've still not upgraded. Presumably it's not worth their while now as everyone has probably switched to Virgin Media in this area by now

I’m in a village where until quite recently I was struggling with about 5Mbps until quite recently. I’m with Plusnet for my internet and landline and have recently upgraded to fibre optic and I am now getting around 30Mbps which is more than adequate for my needs. Being with Plusnet it will be BT who upgraded the network in the village. There’s no prospect of getting Virgin in the village as it is within a conservation area and they haven’t been allowed to take up the York stone pavements to install their cables.

I’m just coming to the end of a 24 month sim only contract with Vodafone for my mobile and can renew from 1st January. The deal I have been on has been very good at only £8.50 for 10GB plus unlimited minutes and texts. I’m hoping they may have another very good deal that I can sign up for with it being January and the sales. I’m only a very light user of my mobile as I use my landline when at home and connect to the internet through my WiFi. I only really use my mobile when I’m away from home and even then I use free WiFi in hotels when it’s available. It really annoys me when most of the best offers these days are for unlimited minutes, unlimited texts and very large data amounts. All I really need is no more than 100 minutes a month, 100 texts and 10GB of data and don’t want to pay more than £10 a month for this. I suppose that I could consider going with Plusnet for my mobile too as they do some very good deals for existing customers. Only drawback is their mobile service does sound a bit basic and I do mainly use my mobile in more rural areas.

 

[GusB]

What I am curious about is whether @btinternet.com addresses will change to EE addresses

I suspect that people who have those addresses will be able to keep them. I had a @btopenworld.com address for a while, but it was lost when I switched to a different provider. That's one of the reasons why I never use ISP email services.

 

[johncrossley]

I’m in a village where until quite recently I was struggling with about 5Mbps until quite recently. I’m with Plusnet for my internet and landline and have recently upgraded to fibre optic and I am now getting around 30Mbps which is more than adequate for my needs. Being with Plusnet it will be BT who upgraded the network in the village. There’s no prospect of getting Virgin in the village as it is within a conservation area and they haven’t been allowed to take up the York stone pavements to install their cables.

Is there an "Altnet" building in your area? Maybe they can use the same poles that Openreach use to give you full fibre, should you want it in the future, so they don't need to put cables in the ground. Even if you only have Openreach you should have a reasonably wide choice of full fibre broadband providers when it eventually arrives.

I suppose that I could consider going with Plusnet for my mobile too as they do some very good deals for existing customers. Only drawback is their mobile service does sound a bit basic and I do mainly use my mobile in more rural areas.

Plusnet use the EE network for mobile so coverage will the same as EE. As you seem happy with Vodafone coverage, there are cheap alternatives that use the Vodafone network, such as Lebara. For example, through Money Saving Expert you can get 12 GB of data per month with unlimited calls and texts for £6.90 per month with no contract. For the first six months that is discounted to £1.49.

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Right now there's a bevy of top Sims for data gobblers. Our top pick is this Lebara Sim (uses Vodafone's network). It comes with 12GB of data, and over 12 months it's equivalent to £4.20/month. Though it's still a one-month contract, so you can cancel at any time.

 

[ainsworth74]

I suspect that people who have those addresses will be able to keep them. I had a @btopenworld.com address for a while, but it was lost when I switched to a different provider. That's one of the reasons why I never use ISP email services.

I still very occasionally come across people with @ntlworld.com (or .co.uk, cant' recall now!) email addresses. How long as has it been since ntl left the scene as a brand?! But yes I thankfully signed up with gmail back in the day when you had to be invited to join so never touched an ISP email address. My mum on the other hand did have to go through the transition from an ISP email to something not tied her internet supplier.

 

[najaB]

What I am curious about is whether @btinternet.com addresses will change to EE addresses

I would be shocked if they changed them over as it's not like @btyahoo.com where there was a second-party involved.

What I fully expect them to do is alias the two domains so that you would have both, say, [email protected] and [email protected] going to the same inbox.

 

[adc82140]

What I am curious about is whether @btinternet.com addresses will change to EE addresses

Unlikely. My primary email address is still a Wanadoo domain, and that's been a dead brand for over a decade.

 

[Hadders]

It's unlikely that btinternet.com addresses will disappear. I've had an email address for over 20 years that has been through several changes of ownership (tinyworld to Tiscali to talktalk) but it still works just fine!

 

[Bletchleyite]

It's unlikely that btinternet.com addresses will disappear. I've had an email address for over 20 years that has been through several changes of ownership (tinyworld to Tiscali to talktalk) but it still works just fine!

In the end a domain is about 20 quid a year if that. The staff and admin cost of processing about two customer service calls complaining about dropping the domain would be far more than that.

 

[plugwash]

BT have some bizarre sort of roll out plan for upgrades and I've never understood it. My parents live in a large town in Hertfordshire - on an estate where their road was relatively new infill (the estate being built in the 70s, and their road in the early 90s). The whole estate other than their road had Virgin and copper wiring but they were reliant on the copper wiring and could get a max of around 5mbps download speeds. BT brought FTTC to the estate, but only made it available to every road except the one that my parents lived on

Afaict BT FTTC rollouts go by the cabinet with each FTTC cabinet corresponding to an existing PCP cabinet, so I guess they were either on a cabinet that was difficult ot unattractive to upgrade, or they weren't on a cabinet at all (AIUI some lines are direct exchange lines which run direct from exchange to DP without a cabinet).

 

[johncrossley]

In the end a domain is about 20 quid a year if that. The staff and admin cost of processing about two customer service calls complaining about dropping the domain would be far more than that.

Sky didn't care about cancelling UK Online email addresses.