You also implied in another post that you had 2 lines, and because its pretty obvious from your IP which ISPs you use, none of which are BT.* You'd also previously said 'Once bitten, twice shy' implying you'd never use BT again.
Ahh, I see how your confusion has come about. However, you're completely wrong. We are with BT for FTTC Infinity 1, and TalkTalk for ADSL2+.
It would seem that in your zeal to defend the indefensible, you've got your wires completely crossed (no pun intended).
I was talking about *never* again using BT for *mobile* services - hence the purpose in posting to a thread about BT's proposed merger/takeover of *mobile* phone operators, EE / O2.
Recall, this was recounting our experiences with BT Cellnet reneging on their "
Unlimited Best Friend" tariff, some 10 or 15 years ago, which was explained at length. That was the reason for saying I'd never go with BT for (mobile) services again; from bitter experience, they can't be trusted. False advertising. Phony promises.
Please do go and read again what I actually said.
Here's a bit of nostalgia, these were the *actual* phones that BT Cellnet provided to us in the late 1990s/early 2000s for their "Unlimited Best Friend" tariff, offering those (not-at-all) "Unlimited" Free Calls to one landline number.
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As for VDSL2 services today, if we are all frank, we don't have really have any choices over the (ultimate) provider. That's the nature of BT's monopolistic "Vulcan death grip" on the FTTC market (as telecoms commentator, Martyn Warwick puts it).
We can either go directly with BT, or with PlusNet, another of BT's cut-out companies; which only exists to give that illusion of choice, or we can go with one of many BT resellers for FTTC. Isn't that what they call a
Hobson's Choice? No real choice at all.
Then suddenly in this thread you make out you are with BT and something starts to not add up when I can quite clearly see which 3 telcos you are posting from.
-- we ditched PlusNet for "BT Proper" -
we (thankfully) have *not* been BT customers for the last 10-15 years.
Yup, see above. We have a BT line for VDSL2 and a TalkTalk line for ADSL2+. End of! If you're seeing something else, you're not even reading your own server logs properly.
Kitz, this is what happens when you take comments out of context; intentionally or not, it makes people look dishonest. You should be in journalism, or propaganda! Make a living out of it!
We *are* (that's present tense) deeply unimpressed BT FTTC customers, currently supplied with an Infinity 1 service, by British Telecom.
It's unstable - heavily interleaved and still lots of errors every hour; it syncs at only slightly more than our rock-solid ADSL2+ service does from TalkTalk. That's why I call it a poor service. A fair call isn't it?
Make up your mind.
I think I know which telcos we are with! I do after all pay the bills! Sounds like the "conspiracy theories" are yours rather than mine!
So how can I prove it's me being honest here, and not you? Should I have to?!
What about a screenshot of our BT account page?
Or BT's IP address allocation from the modem's web page?
Or a screenshot from whatismyip.com ?
Better still, here's a screenshot of all of the above..
I fancy I'm the only honest one in all of this! It's that other lot - the covert BT cheerleaders - with their dodgy hidden agendas that are doing all the fibbing! We can only wonder why!
EDIT: oops shrink tha' image!