of course I am only speculating but my guess is there has been a fair few moving from bt to plusnet, post bt sport launch.

Me and Jamie are two such people.

Yes, I know. I didn't bring out the part of your post mine addressed, as I thought it obvious.

"It may also be they deliberately making a difference between BT broadband and plusnet, so deliberate congestion, less support hours etc. Perhaps too many people have moved from BT retail to plusnet lately and they dont like it."

I wonder if they are setting Plusnet up to become a target as I did hear BT might need to sacrifice something for EE deal to go through?

Surely if they're sniffing the market for a buyer they'd want the business to "appear" healthy?

Why buy a business that is shedding customers, their own forums full of complaints and third party sites (like here) awash with unhappy campers - any prospective buyer would look to get it as cheap as possible with this kind baggage!

Must change my sig too, thats not right now!!

It appears still to be gaining customers.

It would be the number of customers (contracted) that would matter in the case of a sale ... not how happy they are and how healthy the company is.. and considering Plusnet has grown "too fast " (some would say) it does look commercially attractive.

exactly I forgot that too..

So fresh contract for 12 - 18 months.

Think it would be out of the question for Vodafone to maybe take some customers?

Thanks all for replies. Will look into things. Plusnet are obviously not the option for long-term contracts if our fears have grounds.

I didn't even realise they seem to already be in the market!

As for will they take Plusnet customers, your guess is as good as mine.