BT FTTC infinity switch procedure

Hi,
I am soon to take up a new BB and telephone service with BT.
It will be utilising the 10gb limit as a starter but I understand my area is
to go fibre shortly and would like to take this up as soon as its available.
The address checker of BT wholesale says cabinet is planned to WBC FTTC by
30th June.
Is there anything special I need to do to get this underway besides just
informing BT of my interest?
I am thinking would it be better if I had the "40gb" or "unlimited" options
as they seem to suggest that there would be no £25 activation charge>
Any ideas appreciated.
Thanks .
Stuart.

On Mon, 9 May 2011 10:24:35 +0100, just as I was about to take a herb,
"SRT" <(E-Mail Removed)> disturbed my reverie and wrote:

>Any ideas appreciated.

Avoid BT for BB. Their support is a total disaster. You have been
warned.
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Cheers,

DrT

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DrTeeth wrote:
> On Mon, 9 May 2011 10:24:35 +0100, just as I was about to take a herb,
> "SRT" <(E-Mail Removed)> disturbed my reverie and wrote:
>
>> Any ideas appreciated.
>
> Avoid BT for BB. Their support is a total disaster. You have been
> warned.
+1

Also Tiscali, AOL and Virgin. Only consider virgin over cable, and its
still pretty shoddy.

Pay more and go independent.

DrTeeth wrote:
> On Mon, 9 May 2011 10:24:35 +0100, just as I was about to take a herb,
> "SRT" <(E-Mail Removed)> disturbed my reverie and wrote:
>
>> Any ideas appreciated.
>
> Avoid BT for BB. Their support is a total disaster. You have been
> warned.

Aw give over. They are a huge company with a huge customer base, most of
whom are perfectly satisfied with the service they get. Admittedly, their
support isn't brilliant but many, many thousands of their customers never
need support - I certainly haven't and I've been with them since the days of
dial-up on 14.4kbps modems, ie, since about 1995 or '96, and never needed to
call support at all.

"Brian" wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...

DrTeeth wrote:
> On Mon, 9 May 2011 10:24:35 +0100, just as I was about to take a herb,
> "SRT" <(E-Mail Removed)> disturbed my reverie and wrote:
>
>> Any ideas appreciated.
>
> Avoid BT for BB. Their support is a total disaster. You have been
> warned.

Aw give over. They are a huge company with a huge customer base, most of
whom are perfectly satisfied with the service they get. Admittedly, their
support isn't brilliant but many, many thousands of their customers never
need support - I certainly haven't and I've been with them since the days of
dial-up on 14.4kbps modems, ie, since about 1995 or '96, and never needed to
call support at all.


Ok - - I get it that BT may have dodgy support but I am ending an experience
with sky which has been diabolical of late.
This weekend they cut off my phone for three days and my bb is still flaky
syncing at way below the most I could get which was 3700kbps.
I raised a fault issue back in March and have been passed around all over
the place with still no resolution and syncing at 1350kbps!
Fibre has to be better than that I think.

On 09/05/11 13:17, Brian wrote:
> DrTeeth wrote:
>> On Mon, 9 May 2011 10:24:35 +0100, just as I was about to take a herb,
>> "SRT"<(E-Mail Removed)> disturbed my reverie and wrote:
>>
>>> Any ideas appreciated.
>>
>> Avoid BT for BB. Their support is a total disaster. You have been
>> warned.
>
> Aw give over. They are a huge company with a huge customer base, most of
> whom are perfectly satisfied with the service they get. Admittedly, their
> support isn't brilliant but many, many thousands of their customers never
> need support

That's true of practically all ISPs and telecoms providers: most
customers are happy and many thousands never need support.

However, in a recent OFCOM study, BT does worse, as a *proportion* of
it's user-base, than Virgin and Sky, but better than TalkTalk
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04...er_complaints/

As you say, most people won't notice the difference, but why take the
risk, and give your hard-earned to someone with known issues, when there
are better alternatives?

Brian wrote:
> DrTeeth wrote:
>> On Mon, 9 May 2011 10:24:35 +0100, just as I was about to take a herb,
>> "SRT" <(E-Mail Removed)> disturbed my reverie and wrote:
>>
>>> Any ideas appreciated.
>> Avoid BT for BB. Their support is a total disaster. You have been
>> warned.
>
> Aw give over. They are a huge company with a huge customer base, most of
> whom are perfectly satisfied with the service they get. Admittedly, their
> support isn't brilliant but many, many thousands of their customers never
> need support - I certainly haven't and I've been with them since the days of
> dial-up on 14.4kbps modems, ie, since about 1995 or '96, and never needed to
> call support at all.
>
>
Its the day you do, that you curse them.

They are more expesnive and have worse support than almost any other
ISP, whichever way you cut the cost/support situation. I..e even at the
cheap end, they are poor value for money.

Unless you want to be part of Janes Baybee, there is no rational reason
to use BT over any other supplier.

On Mon, 9 May 2011 13:17:21 +0100, just as I was about to take a herb,
"Brian" <(E-Mail Removed)> disturbed my reverie and wrote:

>Aw give over. They are a huge company with a huge customer base, most of
>whom are perfectly satisfied with the service they get

Some friends of mine won't change from BT as they are 'afraid'; their
words, not mine.

Just because they have many customers does not mean that they are the
best. I cannot imagine one of their directors sending his BTO modem to
you to keep you going when BT fecks up the engineer's visits.
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Cheers,

DrT

** Stress - the condition brought about by having to
** resist the temptation to beat the living daylights
** out of someone who richly deserves it.

On Mon, 09 May 2011 15:00:32 +0100, just as I was about to take a
herb, The Natural Philosopher <(E-Mail Removed)> disturbed my
reverie and wrote:

>They are more expesnive and have worse support than almost any other
>ISP, whichever way you cut the cost/support situation. I..e even at the
>cheap end, they are poor value for money.

Lets not forget their 18 month tie-in compared to most others 12.
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Cheers,

DrT

** Stress - the condition brought about by having to
** resist the temptation to beat the living daylights
** out of someone who richly deserves it.

On 09/05/2011 15:00, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> Brian wrote:
>> DrTeeth wrote:
>>> On Mon, 9 May 2011 10:24:35 +0100, just as I was about to take a herb,
>>> "SRT" <(E-Mail Removed)> disturbed my reverie and wrote:
>>>
>>>> Any ideas appreciated.
>>> Avoid BT for BB. Their support is a total disaster. You have been
>>> warned.
>>
>> Aw give over. They are a huge company with a huge customer base, most
>> of whom are perfectly satisfied with the service they get. Admittedly,
>> their support isn't brilliant but many, many thousands of their
>> customers never need support - I certainly haven't and I've been with
>> them since the days of dial-up on 14.4kbps modems, ie, since about
>> 1995 or '96, and never needed to call support at all.
>>
> Its the day you do, that you curse them.
>
> They are more expesnive and have worse support than almost any other
> ISP, whichever way you cut the cost/support situation. I..e even at the
> cheap end, they are poor value for money.
>

From what I have read their FTTC prices are very competitive. See
spreadsheet on http://www.robertos.me.uk/html/isps_offering_fttc.html


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Michael Chare