[access-uk] Re: Waitrose Broadband, was Leaving BT
- From: "Dj Paddy" <mygroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 10:09:26 +0100
What away to corner the market.
Let loads of ISP's pop up offering ADSL service at varying prices, wait a
bit untill the customer base has built up and then buy them out.
Clever.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Higginbotham" <adrian.higginbotham@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 10:00 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Waitrose Broadband, was Leaving BT
I noticed the day that this thread got going last week that BT announced
the take over of the ISP behind Waitrose and a number of other coustomer
offerings, although I can't remember the name now off the top of my
head, brightnet or some such possibly - seems it isn't so easy to escape
BT afterall.
Adrian Higginbotham
Accessibility content manager
British Educational Communications and Technology Agency - BECTA
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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jim Denton
Sent: 06 July 2007 22:02
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Waitrose Broadband, was Leaving BT
Hi just thought that I'd put my 2 pence worth in here. We have been
on Waitrose for about ten months. As a bit of a dunce with all this
techie stuff, I have to say they held our hands all the way. The first
problem was not realising that you had to take the top off a USB
networkcard. There support is based in South Africa, they have been
patient and once when their Broadband was out, there was a recorded
message on their support line.
They also say that if they make a proffit they will spend it in the
third world.
Regards Jim Denton
----- Original Message -----
From: "Amro Bilal" <amro_bilal@xxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 1:26 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Waitrose Broadband, was Leaving BT
Hi James,
Please let us know how you get on with Waitrose. I'm with Virgin Media
ADSL at the moment and I have been having similar issues like yourself
sense Virgin.net became Virgin Media.
Cheers,
Amro
----- Original Message -----
From: "James O'Dell" <jamesodell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 8:55 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Leaving BT
Simon
A word of warning: we have found broadband speeds on virgin ADSL to
be
very poor, especially at peak times when we have often been
downloading
at aorund 20kbps (i.e. three times faster than dial-up). We have
just
canceld our virgin contract after less than a week of activation,
only
just got out before they switched the phone over to Virgin, which
would
have left us in a 12-month contract. Sounds like good value, but in
our
experience performance isn't up to much. Am now switching to
Waitrose
Broadband, which can't be much worse.
Cheers, and good luck.
James
----- Original Message -----
From: "simon.dowling" <simodowl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 5:03 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Leaving BT
HI DJ, I TOO AM LEAVING BT, AS A VIRGIN REP CAME ROUND AND ASKED
WHETHER
I WAS HAPPY WITH WHOM I'M WITH.
THEY SAID TO ME NOT TO TELL THEM I WAS MOVING TO ANOTHER PROVIDER,
BECAUSE BT WOULD QUIBLE OVER MY CONTRACT.
INSTEAD THEY SAID TO TELL THEM THAT I WAS MOVING IN TO A SICK
RELATIVE'S
HOUSE TO LOOK AFTER THEM, AND THEY ALREADY HAD A PHONE LINE SO I
WOULDN'T HAVE ANY PROBS WITH THEM.
I MUST SAY VIRGIN WILL SAVE ME MONEY AS THEY WOULD CHARGE ME 20 PER
MONTH FOR BROADBAND AND A PHONE LINE AND CALLS WOULD BE FREE UNLESS
I
PHONED A MOBI.
MY BT COSTS ME ON AVERAGE ABOUT 150 PER QUARTER.
SO AS SOON AS I HAVE PAID THIS BILL I WILL BE CHANGING OVER.
http://www.secretsthatwekeep.com/003
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dj Paddy" <mygroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 4:33 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Leaving BT
Hi all,
We are leaving BT's pathetic 8mb service and moving to 20mb cable
on
the 17th of this month.
BT customer options gave us a bit of hassle, saying we'd be lible
for
the payments remaining on our 18 month contract and that if we
didnt'
pay it we'd be taken to court, and the usual rhetoric that they
dont'
guarantee speeds.
The technician who's been helping us with the entire process along
with
his manager has assured us that this is not the case.
In short, if people do decide to challenge BT for end user
performance
issues don't take any nonsense, get to speak to somebody who knows
what
they're talking about, have the call eskaulated to a senior
technician
and explain you're phoning about throughput.
I'm exhausted by the whole process, 5 engineers, 3 of which where
broadband engineers who didnt' know they're arse from their elbow
barring one, countless phone calls, and testing both on BT's part
and
mine. The amount of hardware including routers, computers, filters
I've tryed is staggering.
Still, I learnt alot about ADSL! You can't put a price on that
experience.
Thanks to each and everyone of you that offered advice and
encouragement.
I even have went as far as to write a 9 page letter to BBC's
watchdog
as I'm concerned there are quite possibly alot of people out there
recieving very poor performance and are being fogged off. If
you're
far away from the exchange or your exchange doesnt' support the
speeds
and you're well informed about this then fine, but for those that
aren't...
If anyone wants support concerning DSL and what questions to put to
unknowledgeable and in my experience patronising staff dont'
hesitate
to mail me privately and I'll see if I can help out.
Dj Paddy
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