These BT mobile deals & cable customers

Jiffy

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Jun 21, 2004, 2:09:15 PM6/21/04

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Hi all,

I've been looking at these BT Telecom deals and from what I gather, they're
only open to people who have BT Telecom landlines. Is that so and is there
any way around this?

I'm a Blueyonder customer so I've a feeling I won't be accepted.

Cheers, Jiffy

Joe O'Hara

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Jun 21, 2004, 2:19:50 PM6/21/04

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Jiffy wrote:

I don't believe you have to be a BT customer to get a BT Mobile - would
alienate a lot of potential customers, for no benefit to BT.

Simon Ough

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Jun 21, 2004, 2:27:08 PM6/21/04

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"Joe O'Hara" <j...@ohwoah.REMOVEcom> wrote in message
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> I don't believe you have to be a BT customer to get a BT Mobile - would
> alienate a lot of potential customers, for no benefit to BT.

Sorry....... BT line required. :(

Simon

Gareth :-) voom

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Jun 21, 2004, 2:36:42 PM6/21/04

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"Jiffy" <i....@the.pub> wrote in message :

Yes you have to give your BT landline number to sign-up and you get free
quick calls back to your BT line subject to a maximum of 1000 minutes per
month.

Joe O'Hara

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Jun 21, 2004, 3:04:27 PM6/21/04

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Simon Ough wrote:

Wow... that's crazy! With so many people these days having cable for
their TV/broadband/phone BT shouldn't be acting like they still have the
monopoly power they had years ago...

Steve Terry

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Jun 21, 2004, 7:40:00 PM6/21/04

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"Joe O'Hara" <j...@ohwoah.REMOVEcom> wrote in message

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So NTL should be offering something similar with their mobile partner Orange

I would hope they are busy in the backrooms working on copying
seamless Voda / BTs Onephone plans

Steve Terry

Joe O'Hara

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Jun 21, 2004, 8:00:48 PM6/21/04

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Steve Terry wrote:

> "Joe O'Hara" <j...@ohwoah.REMOVEcom> wrote in message
> news:pbHBc.1401$Pc5...@newsfe2-gui.server.ntli.net...
>
>>Simon Ough wrote:
>>
>>>"Joe O'Hara" <j...@ohwoah.REMOVEcom> wrote in message
>>>news:kxGBc.307$6p4.108@newsfe4-gui...
>>>
>>>
>>>>I don't believe you have to be a BT customer to get a BT Mobile - would
>>>>alienate a lot of potential customers, for no benefit to BT.
>>>
>>>Sorry....... BT line required. :(
>>>Simon
>>
>>Wow... that's crazy! With so many people these days having cable for
>>their TV/broadband/phone BT shouldn't be acting like they still have the
>>monopoly power they had years ago...
>>
>
> So NTL should be offering something similar with their mobile partner Orange
>
> I would hope they are busy in the backrooms working on copying
> seamless Voda / BTs Onephone plans
>
> Steve Terry
>
>

Hmmm... I just don't fancy seeing all these proprietary DECT/GSM mutant
hybrids appearing - a different one for BT/T-Mobile, NTL/Orange,
Telewest/O2, etc (btw, those partnerships were purely random)... Surely
someone (impartial) should develop a standard, rather than having a
bunch of home-made efforts that don't work at all together - switch
provider (either landline or mobile) and you face a whole new system.
Appealing? No, certainly not to me.

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Steve Terry

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Jun 22, 2004, 3:57:24 PM6/22/04

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> On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 01:00:48 +0100, Joe O'Hara <j...@ohwoah.REMOVEcom>
> wrote:
>
> >Hmmm... I just don't fancy seeing all these proprietary DECT/GSM mutant
> >hybrids appearing
>

> I don't think that's what the BT?Vodafone thing is. I think it's some
> form of VOIP handset that uses a local access point at home and Voda
> 3G elsewhere.
> This is just my guess, based on nothing at all.
> Iain
>
I get the impression it's something along those lines, which is something
Orange UMTS and NTL will also be able to offer.

If Orange / NTL aren't working on it, i'll eat my PC.
Oh... wait a min we're talking about FT Orange here :-(

Steve Terry