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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Sniper
3:28 Thu Feb 5
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What does this mean for orange Wednesdays?!
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Exiled In Surrey
3:33 Thu Feb 5
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Sniper I haven't seen any commentary on customer benefits.
The organisation I work for is outsourcing HR and Finance to BT - finding them incompetent, dishonest and all the staff a seem overpaid compared to their capability.
Doesn't bode well IMO.
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Hammers1993
3:48 Thu Feb 5
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Orange Wednesdays are finishing this month anyway. EE will be offering some new offer, probably something like spend £100 get 2p off.
BT are taking over! Haven't they got Champions Leauge games soon? And pinched Gary Lineker..
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Sniper
3:49 Thu Feb 5
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Bodes well! I expect my bill to sky rocket then
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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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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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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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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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BRANDED
4:14 Thu Feb 5
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My BT shares are doing well out of it
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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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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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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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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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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
7:13 Thu Feb 5
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Stewie certainly depends on whereabouts you live I guess
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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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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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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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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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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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