Carphone Warehouse

[Scott]

Wow  ...unless all of you have been disconnected for the last few hours CW have set the cat amongst the flying rats !

This on AG and elsewhere on BBC. It's variously been described as a land-grab for the BB customer base and by the CW CEO "From today, broadband is a right, not a privilege."

You need to sign up to one of their talk time packages but personally it didn't take me 5mins with a pencil and paper to calculate that it's an amazing deal for landline, international call to 28 countries PLUS an 8mbps MaxDSL connection with 40Gb limit per month.

For now I won't be one of the early adopters as I'd like to see how their backhaul copes with the flood of "entire internet downloaders" and p2p swappers that will inevitably flood to them.

[Bill]

Don't forget that it's an 18-month contract...

And "free" can get expensive 

[Scott]

Well the 18mth tie-in was the main reason for me to definitely hang on until the bugs fall out their systems and capacity stabilises etc. However the Free BB is only free if you are on one of their LLU unbundled exchanges (of which they only currently have a handful)  but as the takeup of this service increases they're intending to LLU more an more as they go) Otherwise the 'free' is £10 a month...for upto 8mbps !?!? Fook me ?!

Listening to news earlier today and radio1 had a headline (the guts of which I missed) UK ready for a Broadband  Price war...it must be referring to this.

[B52]

But there a cr*p ISP. Try getting a MAC from them.

And posts on the AG forums dont make good reading.

[Bill]

But there a cr*p ISP. Try getting a MAC from them.

That may be because they're (mostly?) LLU contracts- MACs don't apply to LLU, you need to cease and re-provide.

And posts on the AG forums dont make good reading.

Certainly not from the CS point of view. Very entertaining at times, mind you 

[B52]

About 18 months ago they were signing up almost everybody that bought a mobile phone from them. Free this, free that.  The shop assistants were on commission to flog it along with the phone service. These were not LLU areas.  It was every shop in the country.

My daughter was daft enough to fall for the spiel and has had a dreadful service from them.  C/S is awful and its the prospect of a long drawn out battle for a MAC thats putting her off migrating.  She now mainly uses the net at work.

Im trying to get her to move here, but she hates the email address format.
A small detail but important to some people.

[Bill]

but she hates the email address format.
A small detail but important to some people.

Agreed, but tbh I wouldn't use my ISP (whoever it was) for email. If you ever decide to change ISP's, for whatever reason, updating all your email contacts is a right royal pain in the derriere... I've had to do it twice, that's twice too often 

I use 1and1, bought my own domain (£2.34/yr for a .co.uk) and my own mailbox (£0.81/month for a 1Gb box), so now if I should ever need to change to another ISP my email stays the same. Plenty of other companies as well as 1and1 though, google will bring up loads.

[Scott]

Interesting to see people's responses to involvement with CW 
I myself have an equal aversion to any future involvement with F2S...I brought this up only because I see it as a major shift in the pricing policy and service provision for BB in the UK. Convergence of your phone service, BB connection etc...

[Bill]

Convergence of your phone service, BB connection etc...

Yeah... like combined printer/fax/scanners. One fault and you lose the lot 

[Glenn]

Bill, I think the technicial term is 'single point of failure'

[Bill]

Bill, I think the technicial term is 'single point of failure'

That's not the term I use when it happens 

[Jeff]

I think we`ll see a lot of ISPs tripping over themselves to get new blood over the coming months

[Scott]

agreed...batten down the hatches boys it's gonna get messy I think !

[Jeff]

They`ll be gunning for Pipex and Zen boys methinx

[Coopes]

I have just sign with CW (talk talk ) for my home phone, been told that my exchange has been unbundled. Just waiting to see what happens next, I think I will let everything settle down before
I even think about another ISP, anyway i'd miss you guys.

[Jeff]

Awwww, thanx man! But we wouldn`t expect you to not come here just because you changed ISPs matey

[William]

But there a cr*p ISP. Try getting a MAC from them.

And posts on the AG forums dont make good reading.

...and they don't have S & M.

[Bill]

...and they don't have S & M.

Sado-Masochism?


I don't think Jeff would approve of that....... he lives too far away! 

[Wingco1]

I have just sign with CW (talk talk ) for my home phone, been told that my exchange has been unbundled. Just waiting to see what happens next, I think I will let everything settle down before
I even think about another ISP, anyway i'd miss you guys.

Friend of mine has just had a nightmare with TT phones and BB. It appears the BB went down, tech support weren`t interested and fobbed them off. After a couple of days a phone call was made and heated exchanges passed between tech support and my mates wife. She`s a fiery lass This resulted in the BB being terminated there and then by the tech support guy.

They had a nightmare getting the phone transferred back to BT and a reprovide fee to BT Broadband for internet access.

[William]

Simon & Miriam   

[Coopes]

Not bothered about their broadband, just hoping that when they change the phone over it won't effect IDNET connection.

[Jeff]

It shouldn`t Coopes

Hey, nowt wrong with a bit of S n M ... stick an orange in my mouth and shove an Asda bag over my head anyday, well, not any day, you`ll have to wait until I become a Tory MP

[Coopes]

 

[Coopes]

CW have shut down there websit due to overwhelming demand. 

[Bill]

Might be entertaining to add their AG forum to my 'Favourites' list....