A year
ago O2 launched its three current broadband packages, The Basics, The All
Rounder and The Works, which were all based around a varying fair usage
allowance and traffic management. A blog entry and the O2 Home Broadband website have
now updated to reveal a relaxation of the fair usage allowance on the two more
expensive products, The All Rounder and The Works.
The pricing and traffic management remain the same, which means their
lowest priced unlimited broadband package is £12.50 a month if an O2 mobile
customer, or £17.50 otherwise. If you let O2 handle your telephone line rental
and calls the combined package for an O2 mobile customer is £22.50 a month. The
Basics product remains unchanged with its 20GB monthly allowance.
O2 is sweetening its products further with a three months free broadband
offer, and those who have been an O2 mobile customer can get six months free
broadband. The free offer does not apply to those who opt for a 30 day rolling
contract, which as an option is very rare amongst the larger broadband
providers.
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The Basics Watching videos and streaming 0.8 meg (any time)
Sharing files (peer-to-peer) 0.05 meg (busy times)
0.1 meg (the rest of the time)
crickey. that is a bit meagre isn’t it? Is anyone on the basics package here?
Still wouldn’t touch them with a barge-pole, especially when you have many other LLU alternatives, notably C&W re-sellers.
which ones are resllers of CW?
” which as an option is very rare amongst the larger broadband providers ” – and continues to be so, O2 don’t fit that description do they ?
C&W Resellers: Demon(?), though you might need a longer barge pole!
@freder
I was thinking more along the lines of ICUK & Xilo.
*Also ADSL24, UKFSN & Fast.co.uk (450GB usage limit).
so to summarise contention ratio is going up on O2’s network so expect more congestion.
I have been with Be* (O2’s network) since they came to the Carlisle exchange nearly 4 years ago now on their top package. Speed has always been around the sync level and I haven’t really had any problems with them. This runs on the same LLU network as O2 but with O2 being stricter on usage. Hopefully capacity will continue to increase as they do this, though.
I have been with o2 for over two years and here in Brighton I get a steady 13Mbps all times of day, unlimited, and no throttling on the old Premium package. Only once I had a problem, called o2 and it was fixed while I was on the telephone. In the past I have been with BT, AOL, Tiscali, Nildram, and BE; no provider has been as fast and reliable as o2.
I got to admit o2 CS is great for sure just as good as BEs or even better with the irish twing lol
@rwsjr
It has a fair usage policy, it is not unlimited and they have enforced it on occasions.