Synergy? No one uses synergy anymore.
There will be alignment. Alignment is the new synergy, and all shall fear it.
Competition watchdog to rubberstamp BT gobble of EE
Blighty's competition watchdog is expected to wave through the £12.5bn acquisition of EE by BT this week, in its final piece of paperwork before the two become one in March. The deal will create the first fully integrated "quadplay" company, offering fixed-line phones, broadband, mobile and TV. But of potentially greater …
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Wednesday 13th January 2016 09:14 GMT Anonymous Coward
BT + EE, known informally as 'Sweetie'
Supposedly, the informal name 'Sweetie' was jokingly made in reference to all the greasy palms, backhanders that have been paid to get this deal through. The idea that the combined might of these two's CS teams improving anything regards the customer experience , well thats just a pair of hairy ones.
All eyes are on BTOpenreach now. The words it will be 'rail roaded', said to be double speak in reference to Railtrack, so no wiser - lets hope David Cameron does actually have some balls, given his own frustrations in Cornwall.
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Wednesday 13th January 2016 09:35 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: No competition
We're well aware of Telefónica / o2 who seem to love to watch the Welsh/Scottish (especially the Welsh) & visitors to these parts show off their gritty competitive streak in trying to communicate only via 2G DATA, rather than invest, knowing a shorter penetration of 3G/4G would mean no signal at all for some and that would be no fun at all, would it? - using the existing mast infrastructure.
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Wednesday 13th January 2016 13:55 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Wales
Good luck doing anything useful with GPRS or even 'Edge' on your iPhone / Samsung. GPRS 'is' 2G.
PCAdvisor describes it:
What’s it like? GPRS is like asking your elderly neighbour to deliver the mail for you. In the real world you'd be lucky to get 3.5KB/s and thats standing next to the mast on a good day.
Just look any at any O2 coverage map for Wales, then exclude 2G coverage (as its all but useless) , outside of Cardiff, pretty much zero data coverage on O2. And given, O2 / Vodafone have a mast share agreement, that equally applies to Vodafone too.
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Thursday 14th January 2016 06:14 GMT MrZoolook
Hopefully...
... with this I'll be offered a get out of my contract and go to a company who can provide me with more than the 0.54 mb downstraem rate that EE are giving me. Even though they use the exact same fucking hardware that TalkTalk used and never dropped me below 6.
And maybe, they'll even sack the idiots in customer services who argued that OFCOM give them 3 months to correct faults before I can leave my contract fee free, because they blanket refuse to acknowledge that the temporary fixes they have been applying over the last 5 months (actually just resetting the line) are a part of an ongoing problem, and actually represent different problems every time I report it!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
