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    BT chooses EE over O2

    Enters exclusive £12.5 billion talks to acquire the Orange and Deutsche Telekom owned firm.
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    Re: BT chooses EE over O2

    Although probably more bad than good I can see both sides to the argument with this. A huge Telecoms company will restrict choice to some extent...
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    Re: BT chooses EE over O2

    I doubt BT could make anything worse. EE are an unscrupulous company to the extreme.....although as long as they keep the friends and family deal going, I doubt I'll go anywhere else :S
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    Re: BT chooses EE over O2

    I can't escape - already had 2 EE mobile contracts and when I moved into a rented place in the summer I chose EE for landline/broadband 'cos I really did not want BT - but now they've acquired me
    I've dealt with BT customer service (for my mum) and EE customer service in the last year - both terrible experiences, but the EE experience was due to BT totally messing up the fibre broadband installation and not communicating properly with EE - took 8 weeks to get landline/broadband.

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    Re: BT chooses EE over O2

    Is that photo deliberately trying to make the BT tower look like a lightsaber

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    Re: BT chooses EE over O2

    Oh gosh how I hate dealing with BT! This is bad for the consumer. I can see it now - O2 will be bought by sky... We're going to end up with just talktalk, BT and sky providing all communications (minus a few specialist services).
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    Re: BT chooses EE over O2

    Umm when you put the three company logo's in a row like that on the thumb nail, it looks like a penetration device

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    Re: BT chooses EE over O2

    Good news - as one of the original mobile phone operators in the UK with Cellnet, before it was sold to become o2, its good to see them back in the market. It should add to the competition, and while EE's service has been patchy, with the resources of BT behind it, it has the potential to shake the market up a bit.
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    Re: BT chooses EE over O2

    I wonder if there are still O2 mobile phone masks on top of BT buildings?

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    Re: BT chooses EE over O2

    Quote Originally Posted by cheesemp View Post
    Oh gosh how I hate dealing with BT! This is bad for the consumer. I can see it now - O2 will be bought by sky... We're going to end up with just talktalk, BT and sky providing all communications (minus a few specialist services).
    Talking to EE was always a painful experience as well, nothing will change there.

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