EE BUY OUT

Question

Interesting. Wonder where this leaves me. Already a long standing BT customer, broadband, infinity land line, BT sport . Only thing I don't have is the TV EXTRA as I need basic SKY CHANNNELS BT don't provide.
Add to the mix I am also a longstanding Orange (EE) mobile customer albeit in the last 6 months a hugely disgruntled And unloved by Orange customer.
I have a year to go on my contract. On the face of it this seems good news for me as I was contemplating in a years time moving to a new provider. However, will the only offer I get be a total bundle where I am forced to take EVERYTHING including the TV part. In my position as a pensioner I could not afford both BT AND SKY.
Will I be offered anything at all.? Seems all the good deals go to new customers. As I have a foot in both camps I may end up a real big loser.
My experience of BT AND customer care has far out reached that of Orange. Will this remain so?
I await developments with both intrest and apprehension.

Answer 1

10 plus years ago they moved out of the mobile arena to concentrate on their core business. Now this is all in my hublest of opinions of course.
A) So by concentrating on what was their core business of network infrastructure (wired) was, they have spent a decade doing very little for this countries wired network infrastructure.
B) Only recently have BT Openreach opened their hallowed doors so the public can get a small glimpse into it. (funny that isn't it). No sooner have they opened the doors then all of a sudden Openreach (the white van people who service the physical lines) are going to be moving over enmass into the mobile/wifi arena so I bet a pound to a penny this will suddenly be of no value to the wired network. And responses for physically line will be downgraded to a low priority. As they will focus all their attention into the mobile arena.
This 12 billion pounds for them to purchase EE comes from the last 10 years of woeful under investment and badly managed physical networking and expensive charges.
Now don't get me wrong mobile communications a fast wireless BB ability would be of benefit. However I am old school. I have all the wireless communication I need at home. However what I don't have and I am unable to get is the speed from a physical line that my router is attached to.
Would it not have been better to improve the physical lines to a point in the individuals home where it could cope with the inordinate amount of wifi devices home users have now a days?
I would have hoped that FTTH, Fiber To The Home would be the holy grail of a BT network infrastructure. Very fast and unlimited per household that homes themselves could become part of the BT infrastructre.
I understand there are technical issues to overcome however they are not unsurmountable, but there is already the physical lines inplace they just need investment and upgrading. 
It's as though (again IMHO) BT know they have made a dogs dinner of the physical network and are now looking like they want to jump ship into something else as just to take the heat off them for the inordinate amount of frustration this is now causing them.
The other fact is that where I live there is no mobile provider and no signal other than emergecy services. So even that will leave some of us high and dry. 
£12 billion would have gone some considerable way in connecting homes sorting out the network and providing a stable and efficient network capable of sustaining and improving a physical infrastructure that they could build upon. 
I really wait with abaited breath to see how BT's possible purchase of EE pans out. But I see it as BT trying to leave behind a mess of their own making.