Exiled In Surrey 3:26 Thu Feb 5
BT to take over EE
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Telecoms group BT has paid £12.5bn to buy mobile operator EE.
The takeover creates a communications giant covering fixed-line phones, broadband, mobile and TV.
The stockmarket greeted the move by sending BT shares up over 5%, the highest since 2001 when it sold off its old mobile operation O2.
But rivals TalkTalk and Vodafone have already called for competition authorities to step in and force BT to spin off its Openreach operation.
The deal sees BT buying all EE shares currently held by Orange and Deutsche Telekom.
Then Deutsche Telekom will receive 12% in the new combined business and have a seat on the board.
Orange will receive a 4% stake, as well as about £3.4bn in cash.
The deal more than trebles BT's retail customers adding the 10 million it already had to EE's 24.5 million direct mobile subscribers.
A good thing or not for us humble consumers?
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michael
1:50 Fri Feb 6
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a bad day working for BT back in the day
was getting stuck behind a ladies fourball at hainault
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Joke Whole
1:12 Fri Feb 6
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Joe C 1:03 Fri Feb 6
Agreed, but buried somewhere in the T&C will be the ability, should they detect that the function no longer works, to throttle your service back to dial-up speeds while "they assess the matter".
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Joe C
1:03 Fri Feb 6
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"Got a home (or even office) based broadband wireless router from BT? They'll be taking some of that broadband for public use"
You can turn that off however - though obviously you have to know it's there to do so. Also only applies if you're using the BT supplied router
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Joke Whole
12:15 Fri Feb 6
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I think the big driver here is in technology deployment - if they can get enough WiFi access deployed, the mobile networks can be turned down/off.
Got a home (or even office) based broadband wireless router from BT? They'll be taking some of that broadband for public use. If they haven't already started doing so, expect them to strongly suggest installing their routers as close to your property's contact with a public highway/right-of-way as possible for this purpose.
IP6 & broadband public WiFi effectively make G3/4/5/6 history, but they'll still be squeezed out as technology bands while they can get the public to cough up.
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1964
11:36 Fri Feb 6
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Just keep paying my Pension - thank you BT!
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eastend joker
12:13 Fri Feb 6
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i would imagine at least 80% of BT employees now work for openreach , can't see them splitting any time soon .
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Exiled In Surrey
12:04 Fri Feb 6
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Chigwell ag ag ag
I've got a cracking EE broadband deal.
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Dick Dastardly
7:53 Thu Feb 5
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Chigwell 7:45 Thu Feb 5
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BT have an unfair advantage in owning the landline and fibre network. I have clear personal experience of Openreach favouring a BT broadband customer over other providers' subscribers (in my case, Plusnet), which they are not supposed to do. If they are allowed to dominate the mobile market too, they should have to sacrifice Openreach.
BT own Plusnet!!!!
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Ace of Spades
7:53 Thu Feb 5
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Chigwell, you do realise that Plusnet is also BT right?
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Chigwell
7:45 Thu Feb 5
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BT have an unfair advantage in owning the landline and fibre network. I have clear personal experience of Openreach favouring a BT broadband customer over other providers' subscribers (in my case, Plusnet), which they are not supposed to do. If they are allowed to dominate the mobile market too, they should have to sacrifice Openreach.
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franksfat&slow&wank
7:13 Thu Feb 5
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Stewie certainly depends on whereabouts you live I guess
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stewie griffin
7:09 Thu Feb 5
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EE have been superb since I've been with them. As long as they don't change anything I'll be happy
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franksfat&slow&wank
7:05 Thu Feb 5
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I work for the company who warehouse, pick and pack their handsets and distribute
Poor signal EE though they need to sort it out ?
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El Scorchio
5:11 Thu Feb 5
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Sniper- exactly! I think I'm moving from EE to 3 for my next phone- probably soon before any tariffs change
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charleyfarley
5:03 Thu Feb 5
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BT tried to buy O2 went pear shaped so went for EE
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Sniper
4:14 Thu Feb 5
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Scorch
Really? Didn't know about that. 3 tariffs on O2s coverage would be very enticing!
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BRANDED
4:14 Thu Feb 5
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My BT shares are doing well out of it
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El Scorchio
4:12 Thu Feb 5
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3 just took over O2 as well, didn't they?
Bit of a shake up in mobile land...
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diehardhammer
3:58 Thu Feb 5
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Sniper 3:28 Thu Feb 5
orange wednesdays are being scrapped anyway
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goose
3:55 Thu Feb 5
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EE's head office building is right next to ours - we use the resteraunt and its pretty decent.
hope BT dont fuck this up.
oh and my phone of course.
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White Pony
3:54 Thu Feb 5
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Will still have shit coverage though.
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