Fair point!

my number is with Be at the minute, so i need to move both landline and broadband

it was a trauma getting my mac code as Sky were refusing and using hard sales to keep me

I was a plus net customer so my reason for being a bit wary relates to perhaps a decade ago, however i have seen a website which seems to be around hating on plus net but plus net come across really well in terms of dealing with criticism and any issues

Roberto S/ XRAYSPEX - thanks for the comments about LLU, any recommendations to maintain at least the speeds i had with Be? I will go away and research Aquiss, vivaciti and xilo/uno

theres quite a bit of techie info on the thread and acronyms i am not overly familiar with (although i do understand LLU)

Origins Facebook and twitter pages suggest no issues and a thriving business with no mention of closing services down.

Ultimately, now without Digital region are my choices now more limited as Fibre is just a pipe dream?

Appreciate the help - and all your comments
I have a mac code and I wanna use it lol !!

Frankly there are only two realistic objections to Sky broadband. The technical one is the slight nuisance having the phone with them causes if you wish to migrate the broadband elsewhere. Though the situation with Be phone can be worse!

The non-tech one is if like me you have a pathological hatred of Murdoch because of the carnage Sky buying up football has caused. That doesn't stop me continuing to take The Times though! As although he has taken it downmarket it is still the best in so many ways.

Sky broadband and support these days seems to be very good, apart from the dismal Sky Connect if you can't get their LLU.

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The non-tech one is if like me you have a pathological hatred of Murdoch because of the carnage Sky buying up football has caused. That doesn't stop me continuing to take The Times though! As although he has taken it downmarket it is still the best in so many ways.

It will be interesting to see what happens when the next set of football rights goes up for sale. Sky vs BT, round 3

Sky built an interesting business around premium sports rights, and now they realise they have to diversify, there seems to be more money going into entertainment programming than before.

(I read a rumour that thought Vodafone could buy Sky this year, that would be interesting!).

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it was a trauma getting my mac code as Sky were refusing and using hard sales to keep me

Sad, my parents rang BE support and after a 3 minute chat was emailed the MAC code. Yes the 3 min chat was explaining the Sky offers, but it wasn't a hard sell

i was annoyed too at Sky / Be being told i was automatically enrolled for antivirus software i had to opt out of which was the breaking point of me getting my mac code.... I was worried Fibre wouldn't be available to me, but BT Infinity website says it is, but can't work out if prices include VAT, looked at the others Xilo but they seem quite expensive (my budget for broadband and phone line was circa £40).

i was worried i would be excluded from Fibre with the collapse of Digital Region, Origins website doesn't seem to show they have stopped taking customers, but I don't want the hassle of signing up to have to seek a new provider only in a few months time again

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Origins website doesn't seem to show they have stopped taking customers, but I don't want the hassle of signing up to have to seek a new provider only in a few months time again

Try contacting them but I doubt they're allowed to place new orders with Thales.

What did your BT address checker say about FTTC availability?

I put my number in and it's offering 70meg fibre "infinity" service !

Another question is can I use my existing router with fibre?
It's an expensive netgear one !

http://www.digitalregion.co.uk/get-connected

seems to suggest no more new orders

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I put my number in and it's offering 70meg fibre "infinity" service !

Then you can get any ISP that uses the openreach wholesale FTTC network, as well as BT Retail's "Infinity" services.

Another question is can I use my existing router with fibre?It's an expensive netgear one !

If it has a WAN port, then "maybe". Some ADSL routers aren't upto the speeds of FTTC.