O2 aim for 1 million broadband customers by 2010 RSS

O2 are set to launch their residential broadband service on the 15th of October, offering customers speeds of up to 20Mbps.

O2 mobile customers on Pay Monthly contracts stand to get the best deals, benefitting from a standard 8Mbps service for as little as £7.50 a month, £10 a month for 16Mbps and just £15 for the top tier 20Mbps service.

These same speeds will be available to non O2 Pay Monthly customers for an additional £10 a month; line rental and voice calls will not be included in the packages, so residents will have to pay another provider for this. There are no set-up costs, and the 24-hour tech support is free. Usage for all packages will be unlimited, but subject to an FUP.

Presuming that a customer has an O2 Pay Monthly contract phone and signs up for the 20Mbps deal, and wanted the cheapest line rental with evening and weekend calls, they would therefore have to pay something along the lines of £28.95 (BT line rental at £10.50 plus £3.45 for BT Option 2 Evenings and Weekends) plus whatever they were paying for their phone.

Be Broadband (which also runs sans a phone package and line rental), despite being owned by O2, will continue to run as a stand-alone entity, thereby providing better value services to non O2-phone customers. O2 aim to be servicing 1 million customers by 2010, indicating a willingness to roll out to other areas of the UK at a later date.

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4 Comments »Posted by Tom on October 4th 2007 in BT Broadband, Be Broadband, Broadband, O2 Broadband



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4 Responses to “O2 aim for 1 million broadband customers by 2010”

  1. Aimee Lawler said on 05 Oct 2007 at 11:40 am #

    I have to say the lack of fixed line calls is why I didn’t sign up with Be and why I won’t be swayed by O2 Broadband, even tho I’m on a pretty good mobile contract with them.

    I guess if you’re on an O2 contract, it would be worth checking out. 20Mbps broadband (if it works) and evening calls courtesy of BT for under £30 isn’t that bad, but after all the hype, I was expecting a bit more.

  2. Jon Dolan said on 10 Oct 2007 at 8:26 am #

    That’s a lot of sign ups by 2010 for a product which isn’t even in the market place and the launch keeps getting dealyed. Surely there will be the usual teething problems with it as well.

    Should be an interesting debut within the broadband sector for O2 broadband although they do have experince with Be broadband. Let’s just see what happens…..

  3. Darth Littlejohn said on 10 Oct 2007 at 11:42 am #

    Of course, the cost of this will invariably go down as and when BT announce their next line rental price cut.

  4. Einar said on 10 Oct 2007 at 3:30 pm #

    It’s pretty simple really; if you have a Pay monthly contract with O2 (I don’t) then go for O2 Broadband.

    If you don’t (that’s me!) go for Be!

    The cost of line rental plus landline calls isnt that much when you consider the added set-up costs of other broadband providers I could care to mention…


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