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On Mar 8, 2013 8:22 AM, "michael norman" <<a href="mailto:michaeltnorman@gmail.com">michaeltnorman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 08/03/13 02:31, Christopher Hunter wrote:<br>
> I am a long term Be user and have always been happy with their service, but I will have nothing to do with Sky. According to their info once the deal is concluded home users will be migrated to Sky. I have told them that there are no circumstance I will use Sky so unfortunately for me this is the end our our relationship.<br>
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>> On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 21:28 +0000, Chris Bell wrote:<br>
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>>> Jason at UKFSN tells us that SKY have purchased O2 (and I assume Be)<br>
>>> landlines and broadband under an agreement that existing wholesale terms and<br>
>>> conditions will be respected for the immediate future.<br>
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>> The "immediate future" they foresee is limited to about 5 months<br>
>> according to their letter today. The whole mess then goes to Sky...<br>
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Sky broadband is actually quite a good deal if you already have sky tv.<br>
I do have a big gripe currently, their DNS servers are really slow to respond, making the whole web surfing experience a slow crawl unless you put bind in cache mode locally on you home lan.<br>
It can take over 30 seconds to get a dns response !</p>