No you are posting for the sake of an argument, i am posting for the sake of clarification. As sky are migrating its own customers on to a new system, i wanted to know how this affects BT customers migrating.

So please refrain from trying to cause an argument, its not right, its not clever, so don't do it.

£25 fee only applies according to their own terms and conditons when u cease the broadband, migration is free

It seems the young lady I spoke to at BT got herself in a bit of a twist and gave me the wrong info. I stated I wanted to migrate to one of the Enta resellers on the same ADSL platform, but for some reason she thought I wanted to cease the service, hence the £25 charge + £7.75 per month wrong info. To be honest, I thought she was confusing herself, at one point she was muttering something about an extra £25 to change the ADSL platform (ie to LLU) which is NOT what I wanted - my local exchange has no LLU so its no use to me. She even said I'd have to pay £40 for the Hub, until she realised oh yeah, I've had it longer than 12 months. D'oh!

Anyway, I called back again a few days later and I had no problem getting the right information on that occasion - I only need to pay the remainder of contract (i.e. 6 months X £15.65) and no £25 charge. Simples!

Think I might leave it till September. I'm on Option 1 on BTBB, but some months I've gone over the 10Gb limit. I would upgrade to Option 2 or 3, but no way am I gonna be held to another 12/18 month contract, hence the reason I'd rather go back to one of the Enta resellers with the 1 month contract and a far bigger choice of packages to choose from.

I take the unwillingness for BT to answer the question, as a inclination that my suspicions are correct.

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as a inclination that my suspicions are correct
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Well you're wrong.

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The £25.00 cease charge is only applied if your cancel the Broadband service all together.
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Dunno what part of "cancel the Broadband service all together. you don't understand.

Hint, "alltogether", as no more broadband.

Openreach charge ALL ISP's for a cease, it's up to them if they pass it on, many/most do.

Jeez, you do not get it do you

If you are going to be put on Sky's new infrastructure in its entirety, you will no longer be using any BT equipment. This could be classed as a cease. I would like clarification, not you copying and pasting what i already know.

If you are going to be put on Sky's new infrastructure in its entirety, you will no longer be using any BT equipment.

It works without the landline or the BT OpenReach jumpering of that to the Sky kit then?

Wow - technology really has left me behind.

Is TalkTalk the same? Now if you to tell us a few people who have had to pay BT £25 to move to TalkTalk or Tiscali then perhaps you would have a valid point.

A research project for you. Facts, not dust thrown in the air.

In your slightly earlier post I take it you meant "indication", not "inclination". Perhaps a lack of English vocabulary explains your inability to comprehend formal English.

More likely the reason for not replying to you is that busy support staff, who see that everyone other than you understands, have decided to get on with things that matter.

Well this took you a fair few days to reply after your ever so delightful posts. You been googling again to make your self look smart, not working

It works without the landline or the BT OpenReach jumpering of that to the Sky kit then?

That's what i want to know, as sky are now moving everyone "who do not opped out", they will be moved over to sky in its entirety.. I pay sky for my line rental and they service my line, not BT. So you may need to do a bit more googling to get your facts right.

Hope to see a new post in a few days

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Well this took you a fair few days to reply after your ever so delightful posts. You been googling again to make your self look smart, not working

It works without the landline or the BT OpenReach jumpering of that to the Sky kit then?

That's what i want to know, as sky are now moving everyone "who do not opped out", they will be moved over to sky in its entirety.. I pay sky for my line rental and they service my line, not BT. So you may need to do a bit more googling to get your facts right.

Hope to see a new post in a few days

re the few days - 2 actually. There wasn't anything worth saying till your latest drivel.

So the line to your house goes to a Sky street cabinet and via Sky cabling to the exchange where it connects to a Sky DSLAM? Either that, or Sky engineers now have physical access to the insides of the BT street cabinets and the BT-restricted areas in the BT exchange.

I really am out of date.

Not sure about out of date, but misguided. My point being you are disconnected from the BT network, you do not seem to grasp that. Maybe a bit from openreach it self might satisfy you and i will highlight what i am trying to get at, all along

The local loop is the copper telephone line between an end customer's house or business and the nearest BT exchange. Openreach sells two product variants. With Full Local Loop Unbundling, another Communications Provider rents the whole line from Openreach. The line is physically disconnected from BT's network at the exchange and connected to another network. The customer only gets services from the other provider over the line and doesn't receive bills from BT.
With Shared Local Loop Unbundling, Openreach only rents to the Communications Provider the part of the copper line used to deliver broadband services. The part of the line used to deliver voice services is retained by Openreach and made available to provider of voice services, including other parts of BT. In this case the copper line isn't fully disconnected from BT's network, but a 'splitter' is used at the exchange to separate broadband and voice. The customer gets two bills, one from the voice provider (BT or another voice provider) for the voice part of the copper line and one from the local loop unbundler.

So if you are disconnected from the BT network, is this classed as a cease and you are charged £25.