Topic: 'Talk to Sky' evening on BE Forums = Use own phone supplier & routers (Read 16226 times)

guest · « **Reply #1 on:** May 30, 2013, 08:01:06 AM »

I smell bovine faeces. I don't believe a single word of this, and I'm completely certain that Sky have no intention whatsoever of letting people use their own router, otherwise why in the name of god are they beta-testing ANOTHER "new" Sky router less than a year from the last "new" Sky router.

Its simply to get people off legacy O2/Be contracts and onto Sky contracts ASAP, at which point all these vague "promises" will evaporate.

If any of you believe this then I have some attractive swampland and bridges you may be interested in acquiring

snadge · « **Reply #2 on:** May 30, 2013, 12:45:20 PM »

It's come from the horses mouth on be user group though? Surely they can't lie... Also just cos an isp sells it's own router doesn't mean it's solely to deny customers using their own.?.. You don't see those isps that let customers use their own routers not bothering with their own 'new' router's... Lol...

Be Interesting to see what happens anyway

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guest · « **Reply #3 on:** May 30, 2013, 01:52:01 PM »

What "horse's mouth" is this then?

All I see is some vague answers to questions put by a tiny group of users Sky doesn't much care about anyway. I don't even know who answered the questions.

You do know that the Be usergroup isn't run by Be don't you?

When I see Sky saying the same thing to their own customers I might believe it, but probably not. I will wait until I see the T&Cs change ta

Edit - the only routers ever supplied to me by an ISP were from Be and Sky. Its fairly logical to assume that someone migrating/switching has their own router anyway....

snadge · « **Reply #4 on:** May 30, 2013, 02:19:05 PM »

guest · « **Reply #5 on:** May 30, 2013, 02:25:21 PM »

Its not run by Be. Its run by Be customers, at least one of whom has received free BB since 2008 for some reason

Also I can remember various chats with (intially) the founders of Be*, then Telefonica when they were taken over.

99% of what they said never happened. It was, in short, total crap.

Hell they were probably still spouting bull about "FTTC plans" right up until El Reg broke the takeover story.

I'll believe it when I see it, I've found that's the best way with the Be "usergroup"

snadge · « **Reply #6 on:** May 30, 2013, 02:29:23 PM »

it was a "talk to sky" evening on BE Forums... not Be User Group...sorry... my mistake

i have edited the first post to include this data...

BE Forums isnt run by its customers though is it?

oh well , we'll just have to wait an see... Im staying neutral lol... I would like to see it happen but at the end of the day it make NO DIFFERENCE to me as a customer...cos I use my own router anyway... only thing Iam bothered about is congestion from migration

guest · « **Reply #7 on:** May 30, 2013, 03:00:57 PM »

I'd read the chat before and while <whoever> is definite about Annex M not happening and no IP address blocks, <whoever> is pretty vague and woolly on the rest.

See I don't believe this chat because there is no cost-benefit to Sky for retaining Be users.

Sky BB doesn't make Sky any money. Line rental does. TV does. It is those which subsidise the BB service - really the core network/backhaul.

So what's the point of a Be user who doesn't want Sky TV (or already has it) and wants to stay on SMPF with another phone provider? None as far as I can see.

If Sky was saying this to O2 users I'd give it a deal more credence, simply because there's a lot of them. How many Be users are there now? 20k or so maybe, the vast majority of whom have no intention of going to Sky.

We'll see.

snadge · « **Reply #8 on:** May 30, 2013, 03:46:39 PM »

guest · « **Reply #9 on:** May 30, 2013, 04:33:23 PM »

snadge · « **Reply #10 on:** May 30, 2013, 06:51:52 PM »

guest · « **Reply #11 on:** May 30, 2013, 09:02:05 PM »

They belong to Sky now.

Edit - and Sky want the users on the svbn because the O2/Be DSLAMs don't have the same voice/data integration. As always the elephant in the room of BB pricing is line rental.

saabw · « **Reply #12 on:** May 30, 2013, 10:25:51 PM »

snadge · « **Reply #13 on:** May 31, 2013, 01:24:40 AM »

guest · « **Reply #14 on:** May 31, 2013, 07:36:11 AM »

No it doesn't. I still think its not going to happen.

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