Tell us, do you enjoy the thought of BT-EE's sweaty fourplay?

platitudes

They will investigate and speak some of the above, they will never require that openreach be hived off as a separate company as it should have been some years back.

It is the only real way to open competition properly. Openreach is more akin to network rail, it is the largest backbone infrastructure in the country and companies should hire access from them on a very level playing field.

There is no longer any excuse to allow openreach to remain part of BT.

This won't end well for anyone

I'm actually genuinely impressed with EE's 4G service, particularly in Northern Ireland where they decided to roll out good coverage from the start and competitors are still miles behind. Their tariffs are pretty good and the customer service has been great from my experience.

I just hope that if this merger gets the go ahead that BT let EE operate fairly autonomously like they do PlusNet as BT are a bloody disgrace of a company - I wouldn't encourage even my worst enemy to do business with them. Foreign call centres, terrible customer service in general and expensive. No thanks.

Not to mention the constant price hikes BT have made to their line rental every 6 months for the past few years.

For shame.

all my mobile phones are with orange or t-mobile

I'm damned if I want BT with their appalling customer service and inflated costs anywhere near those contracts.

I reluctantly switched to BT when they introduced FTTC in my area and became the only provider that were able to offer speeds above 20Mbps. Having read the forums I expected no end of problems to the extent that I ordered a second line and kept my old provider so as to have a 3 month overlap period in case BT proved to be unusable.

Now, 2 years on I can honestly say that I am completely happy with BT (touch wood!). The initial installation was fast and painless. I had one intermittent problem that began about 3 weeks after the installation, but a single phone call resulted in a visit the following day by a chap who not only listened carefully to the symptoms I described and asked the "right" questions, but was able to positively identify & fix the issue within an hour - despite the fact that the line was working OK when he arrived (as said, it was an intermittent fault). I download fairly large amounts of data for a home user (between 500GB and 1TB+ per month), and the real speed has never fallen below 50Mbps. 90% of the time I get close to my line speed (75Mbps). I occasionally have to power cycle the BT router, (which I expect I could fix by fitting a different router), because its single 1000baseT port drops out (the 100baseT & WiFi ports stay working), but it is not frequent enough for me to be much bothered.

Obviously YMMV and my experience may be completely atypical.

I'm with ee and get 76mb and I'm happy with them if I wanted to go bt I would have chose them ...

so we are going to have a choice of 3 suppliers how long before they fix it between themselves

it should not be allowed to happen ..

Been there, done that

I live in Austria, where Orange was swallowed by 3 (and its Yesss! MVNO by bad old Telekom) a year ago, going from a 4-way to a 3-way market.

Prices have gone up 58% in this year according to the Telekom watchdogs, and the EU bureau for mergers and bribes issuded a statement vaguely saying "this might have been a mistake".

Don't do it.

BT Mobile

At work we have been with BT mobile for some time (running off Vodaphone signal) with the merger, although we are staying with BT, we are 'switching' to EE, which means changing all the SIM's in our mobile devices, which i can tell you, is a massive pain in the arse.

You'd think you could rely on people finding that their device (either mobile or tablet) has stopped functioning and bringing it in to be fixed but nooooooooooooo. It all kicked off a couple of weeks ago and we have a growing pile of SIM's from people that have ignored their (often requested) switch over date, meaning that we have a growing group of people with either mobile phones or 3g tablets (and in some cases both) that they can't (or more likely just don't) use.