In reply to a post by Zadeks:

Customers have to start a new contract to get rid of the traffic shaping?

LAME!

Where does it state that? That is contrary to here:
Traffic Management

The table shows the old product name as being revised as well.

Just tested mine now though and it's definitely being traffic managed.

Look at section two - second table. This applies to the old products and includes P2P shaping during peak times.

In reply to a post by Zadeks:

Look at section two - second table. This applies to the old products and includes P2P shaping during peak times.

Oh [censored]... I only joined on 15th Jan. That's ridiculous.

In reply to a post by Zadeks:

Customers have to start a new contract to get rid of the traffic shaping?

LAME!

BT have *always* done this on their Broadband and Telephone products. Changed products only apply to new customers and those signing up to another contract.

Its one reason I wanted to go to Sky, and will move from Infinity when my contract is up in 2014 - sad as the product itself works very well.

Sky Fibre Unlimited Pro cost more dunnit? If you want to do p2p unlimited, surely best off re-contracting and saving against the competing Sky product?

Edited by deleted (Fri 01-Feb-13 21:19:35)

true, but I only sync around 40/8 anyway, so probably not bother with pro, and its only about £4. and the voice line rental is a bit cheaper.

Edited by jchamier (Fri 01-Feb-13 21:58:08)

Hmm. Slower or more expensive. and an existing product that 'works well'

My money is on BT Retail retaining you with a deal when you are out of contract.

If you joined on Jan15th then switching to new contract won't extend your end of contract significantly. I don't know what effect it has on free introductory offers.
For people in mid-contract, switching means being locked into BT for a significant extra period.

In either case, as I understand it the switching itself is free.

Unlikely, it doesn't take more than 30 seconds using any search engine to find out how to circumvent the 'block'.

why dont they just auto update everyone, whats with the obsession of long contracts from BT? for me its only a 1 month penalty since i still have a 17 month commit left but I think its a very bad penalty for those outside of their minimum term, 18 months is a very long time.