In reply to a post by XRaySpeX:

Also I'm put off by recent constant reports of Network Issues on Be. They don't appear to be so prevalent on O2 altho' they are the same network. Any idea why this is?

Most of the techie O2 users seem to have left, or post about this in the Be forum when it happens. I have to say that the frequency doesn't seem to have changed since I was on O2, and even when it happened it rarely affected me.

I think if you analyse the posters complaining about it, you will find a couple of "usual suspect" axe-grinders blowing occurrences up at every opportunity. I think at least one is no longer on O2/Be anyway. Even BT cable breaks and Linx problems fuel their ire, though they do have a point that the Be network could be more resilient. The prices could also be higher and the performance lower, to pay for that extra resilience.

Be users by their very nature are more likely than O2 ones to detect even short-term problems and publicise them, out of sheer boredom here.

O2 and Be each have their own DNS servers so there is a point of diffence there. Again, I always used the automatically assigned O2 ones and I think I had one problem in all the time I was there, even though others seemed to have trouble with exactly the same ones. Work that out!

I wonder if the same thing is happening on Be, as theirs seems flaky for some users but not many join in when it is playing up for them. It is noticeable that OpenDNS users on Be seem to get a similar frequency, so it all implies to me some other mechanism is interfering for these people.

Yes, it did occur to me, when I put my Q, that nowadays that the O2 users are not so techie as Be's.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Linx problems fuel their ire

I've seen these mentioned often. What are they? I am not aware of them affecting Orange.

Where does the £50 come from?

Rarely use my mobile and got around £50 credit

What is the point of topping up a mobile every so often and not using it to the tune of £50?

As for the "great savings", a saving of £15 for an expenditure of £10 looks like a 50% return on capital to me.

Where does the saving of £15 come from? I make it a saving of £5, but at the same time there is a needless expenditure of £10 into a mobile topup that seems to be unused.

I get from your reply that you really can't see the irony of "spending" £10 on a barely used mobile to save a total of £5. That's like me going in to Tesco and buying 2 tins of cat food to get a cheap bottle of wine when I don't have a cat . Must be missing some of your logic here......

It's really simple. There's nothing stopping you using the mobile credit any time you want. The same can't be said about cat food.

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

It's really simple. There's nothing stopping you using the mobile credit any time you want. The same can't be said about cat food.

Well, actually I could get a cat or I could get the taste for cat food. I'm sure it is stuffed with goodness

[edit] My issue is, the way this is presented. You DO NOT save £15. You would save £5 a quarter, or £20 a year. I may be Scottish, but that seems like a lot of hassle to save £20 a year. If it was £50+ I would consider it worthwhile.

Edited by deleted (Mon 18-Apr-11 09:42:31)