Carphone Warehouse Buys AOL in the UK
 

It is being reported that Carphone Warehouse is buying AOL in the UK

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6039740.stm

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Oh God No!

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Oh goody!

The synergy of Carphone Warehouse's Broadband customer service, and that of AOL, should be a wonder to behold.





run, run, run away!

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NTL simply won't be in their league when it comes to a competition for the worst ISP!

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Dear lord, I've only ever had the mis-fortune to deal with AOL CS once and I still get flashbacks now :erm: What next.... they all amalgamate with Pipex????

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No, NTL:Telewest :eek:

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To be honest i just cannot see this being anything other than a match made in HELL

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*buys AOLCPWHell.com lol*

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Talktalk is over subscribed so they buy an isp.Aol isnt small so this will be a shrewd move on there part to expand there connectivity. AOL as a BB provider (as long as you use a router) is no less crap than any other crap BT based isp. I understand people do not like AOL internal browser because of wan ports and driver etc but for the mainstream No0b user its fine.

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Please don't say that. Since Pipex bought Nildram, the service has gone downhill, Pipex have taken a once great ISP and totally ruined it. :disturbd:

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Interesting. I wonder how this will affect AOL broadband customers whose service is provided through ntl cable?

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Very good question :tu:

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The announcement came as the mobile phone retailer revealed losses from offering "free" broadband to 625,000 of its Talk Talk customers will hit £70 million this year.

ntl homepage|money

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which is odd because I use 123-reg and they are now owned by Pipex and the service is still 1st class.

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There is a big difference between a commercial product, and a residential one.

Are we talking about connectivity here ?

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Oh dear. I currently use AOL BB. It is after all one of the few ADSL suppliers that actually does allow unlimited access. It's actually been pretty solid as well, don't think particularly highly of the AOL software though which is why I don't use it or have it installed.

I am concerned about caps though, so it's possible that NTL may have a returning customer, for BB anyway. I'll have to see how much that would cost.

Kevin

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go back to NTL as AOL are crap.

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I must admit that the connection has been rock solid with AOL, no disconnections.

Does anyone else live in the Flitwick area of Bedfordshire and if so could they say whether BB with NTL has been reliable. I had reliability problems with NTL before, one of the reasons I left in the first place but if they have been sorted out then I may well book for an installation.

Kevin

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Might get a decent working WAP phone now. :D

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Well, Mr Impatient (me) has placed an order for NTL BB.

Kevin

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123-reg are a domain name registrar and hosting company bought by Pipex last year.

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Does this mean that AOL could set up call centres within the UK?

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I would hazard a guess then, there will be relatively no problems, as it's aimed at the business side of things. It's the residential customers who get treated like crap, heavily traffic shaped, to make sure the boys in suits are happy. Money talks. ;)

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I can only speak with experience of 123-reg for registration and email forwarding. The process is good, but whe you run into a problem don't expect any help.

Recently emails were taking hours and hours days to be forwarded. there was no status message on 123-reg and they took over one week to reply to my message asking about the problem. The reply simply said 'we're having problems, don't know when they'll be fixed'.

To be honest, they're all as bad as each other. Apalling customer service is the norm these days.

Someone I know just transferred into 1&1, tried to adjust the nameserver info, the system wouldn't let him. Two days after sending an email asking for help they wrote back saying that they shouldn't do it for him, he's supposed to do it all through the webiste...but on this ocassion they'd do it. That was three days ago - they've still not done it, so the site's been down for almost a week now.

Sorry for going off topic!

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you know I read it and thought thats a very cheap price, (consider that BE went for almost same price and had barely a 20th of the customer base) and I see AOL will continue to get a % of the revenues.

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oh no.....
N i loved AOL for its unlimited usage and uninterrupted connection.
CPW beta not mess up.
For those who complain abt AOL 8.0, u can always work around that even if u only use a simple bb modem.
Which brings me back to another of my post...someone already mentioned demon provided UNLIMITED download. does any1 else provide that???

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NTL

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Really...u mean proper unlimited??

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There are no 100% Unlimited ISPs anywhere, it simply isn't possible, they will all be subject, as with NTL to a fair use policy, yes it is advertised as unlimited and can be taken as such.

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and NTL's traffic shaping

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I wouldn't have any idea about the conditions for new customers, but with my AOL account i get unlimited download, without any limits.
I know that for sure because i download so much stuff sometimes and i have a home network, therefor more download.
Besides which, when i took bb 2 yrs ago, my main issue was to get unlimited, which AOL provided me with at no extra cost.