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“A five star service untill they sold the business to Sky.”

★★☆☆☆

written by chrisdoth on 13/01/2017

I'd have o2 broadband for a number of years and it was coming across my previous five star review here which prompted me to update my review. As per my previous 5 Star review I was very happy with the o2 service I was getting circa 2012 and early 2013. Unfortunately within months of the transfer to Sky speeds and connectivity had dropped noticeably. Drop outs and slow connections were the norm for quite some time. Service is now better than it was but is not at the levels it was when provided by o2 themselves. Furthermore the billing at Sky leaves a lot to be desired, already having a sky package in the house you might think this would make things simpler however this is apparently not the case. Given how many people must have been in the same situation it was odd that whenever I had to call Sky up about this it is like the whole thing was a surprise to them. In the end I had several months of being overcharged with incorect billing and now, for some reason, have three different accounts at Sky as they were unable to merge/delete the ones they created in error. Also since Sky took over I have problems emailing people who are also Sky customers. Looking at the error messages this is because Sky filters are judging its own servers as 'known for spam' and bouncing the emails. Apparently this is a known issue with Yahoo who Sky use to run their email. All in all I would not recommend as it is second tier service and the support provided is limited and costly to contact. I'm sorry o2 sold the business to sky.

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“3GB Data mobile broadband at £15 lasts for 1 and...”

★★☆☆☆

written by on 15/06/2016

I Spent £41 on thier Huwei mobile broadband dongle with 3GB of date the downloads were quick all seemed well the only problem I watched one small not HD video on youtube for abour 5 mins then searched the the weather, recipes, etc and in 1 and a half hours my date was gone £41 worth of investment in my being able to enjoy the internet went up in smoke. 02 charges 20p per file per minute or whatever Beware, am now going to giff gaff or some one else I thought the dongle plus data was going to last at least 3 weeks as used to be when I was with 3 until they started to have problems with their data counter. How can 3 GB vanish over uploading ordinary web pages so quickly. Should have said on packet how they charge you for the 3Gb by the way this was not 4G speed either. My phone is with them and that has been good but am walking away from this!I feel ripped off and dont want to continue now either with their mobile phone service.I always thought they a better company!

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“No good!”

★★☆☆☆

written by BeeYoung on 09/10/2015

I'm sick of O2 so I've had to change to Vodafone!! Staff are rude in call centre and worst of all I never ever get a signal regardless where I am! Complete joke tbh.

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“Good!”

★★★★★

written by rickyriccardo on 19/09/2015

I don't understand some of the bad reviews o2 get, I've NEVER had any problems with them, you get what you pay for with o2. The broadband speed has always been excellent, it's cheap compared to a lot of broadband providers and the customer care has always been there for me. Cant fault o2 in any way, only praise for them :)

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“Awesome”

★★★★★

written by IsaiahOliver232 on 11/08/2015

Provided a very good service to me and I just renewed my contract with them for another few years.

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“Awesome”

★★★★★

written by IsaiahOliver232 on 11/08/2015

Provided a very good service to me and I just renewed my contract with them for another few years.

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“Always happy to help”

★★★★★

written by minxwilliams on 22/07/2014

I have been an o2 customer for over 10 years and have never had any issue with the service. On occasions when my phone has been lost or stolen, it has always been dealt with quickly and professionally.

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“Better than my last provider”

★★★★☆

written by GemmaHarris86 on 31/01/2014

I have to say i'm quite happy with 02! My whole family uses it and I'm quite haüppy to recommend it to my friends as well!

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“Complete Joke ”

★☆☆☆☆

written by on 31/08/2013

Rang o2 in May to cancel my O2 Broadband and phone package because Sky bought them due to bad experience with Sky service in the past to which they sent an email June " Sorry your leaving moving your broadband home phone to another company ... " . Yet now August 31 2013 they still send me an email monthly invoice for broadband home phone despite moving to another ISP in June for my phone broadband package, next invoice payment due 3 September,just so pleased that i cancelled my direct debit .

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Stejan's Comment

Written on: 21/09/2013

Not really a review of their actual service while you used it though, is it. I imagine you were happy with their service before they sold their broadband side of the business to Sky or you wouldn't have stayed with them and you would have mentioned it in your review. Have they billed you unnecessarily? Are you out of pocket? I imagine the invoices were/are coming from Sky as ours have been since July, even though we're still contracted to o2 for now.. We haven't officially signed over to Sky yet, but the bills are still coming from them and no longer from o2.

Yes, it's unfortunate o2 no longer trade as a broadband company, but that can't be helped. I'm going to miss them myself because we've had pretty flawless service for quite a number of years while we've been with them. I'm in the middle of looking for another provider myself as don't want to go to Sky but as long as they don't try to keep charging us when we make the transition to another isp I won't care if they email us or not.

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“still the best”

★★★★★

written by on 30/05/2013

I recently moved house and expected it to be a right pain changing my account over. o2 handled it all for me, booked a date, sent me numerous emails to confirm and it all went through smoothly. no complaints.

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“O2 Broadband offer excellent service”

★★★★★

written by ken.webb on 29/05/2013

I used O2 broadband for over 2 years in an area covered by phone lines only. Their service was brilliant compared to BT Broadband who I was with previously. Somehow o2 managed to double BT speed for a lot less money. After the initial 12 month period, they wrote to me and offered the next 4 months free to stay with them!! Had a few setting up issues, but their customer service was brilliant and had it sorted in minutes. I have since moved to a cable area and of course get better speeds and a full media package. But I was sorry to leave them

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“Unreliable Bad Service”

★☆☆☆☆

written by BernardCorkers on 20/04/2013

O2 broadband has been very patchie connectivity, after two months of issues that they have not been able to resolve I am going to another broadband supplier - avoid and save yourself the hastle of bad broadband and bad service

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“Outstanding Customer Sevice!”

★★★★★

written by glenvee on 13/04/2013

I find O2 very good with fantastic Broadband Speed and it's very reliable too. I found O2 are actually faster than BT Infinity too, I know what you're going to say how can they be, well you try BT and you'll see for yourself. Also fantastic package deal, no one can actually compete with their discounts and overall good quality service! I'll never leave them that's for sure, anyone that discredits O2 Broadband has something wrong with their head or needs examining too. Keep up the good work O2 you're marvelous!

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“OK”

★★★☆☆

written by on 07/04/2013

Generally broadband was fine but after two years the service got slower. I upgraded to what O2 said was technically a better package for less than i was paying. The service was unstable and i was naturally unhappy, but became even more dissatisfied when i relised they had sold their service to Sky, they knew they were going to do this and obviously were trying to get their customers to sign up for a further 12 months at lowere prices so that they could sell their business to Sky. I signed up to be with O2, not Sky, so i left.

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“Worst customer service experience with no technical skills”

★☆☆☆☆

written by Choppie99 on 04/04/2013

Be warned, O2 are at the bottom end of the scale when it comes to custoemr service I experiecned a broadband outage two weeks ago and reported this to O2, I explained that this was a fault at the BT Excahnge that needs to be fixed, I work in technology so was able to diagnose this, after calling daily for a week they finally logged a fault with BT (they refused to do this earlier as this is their process), BT engineer came out and confirmed that this was an Exchange fault, and booked it in for repair, now another week on, I still have no broadband, O2 cannot update me as they custoemr servcie centre cannot speak to the technical support team, only leave messages. End result I am two weeks without broadband and no resolution in sight. I am leaving O2 for another provider, as I cannot afford to have over two weeks without broadband as I need to work from home occasionally and I need someone reliable that can support the service they provide.

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Glenvee's Response to Choppie99's Review

Written on: 13/04/2013

i've no problem with o2 Broadband, some people just like to moan and moan about anything!

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Glenvee's Response to Choppie99's Review

Written on: 13/04/2013

I find that hard to believe, O2 are good in Customer Service, I think you need to learn how to spell before being critical about companies

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Choppie99's reply to Glenvee's Comment

Written on: 14/04/2013

Good to see O2 Customer service doing something - other than ignoring my request for assistance. Posting three replies at the same time under three different IDs for my review - try to be less obvious next time guys and post your replies at different times and days.

You are right of course, I am just a moaner, I should just expect the 22 days without broadband that is still not resolved to be typical of the customer service provided by O2 - if I had researched and seen all the similar responses form other peoples reviews I would have been able to manage my own expectations - just another moaning customer - I guess you guys get that a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for taking the time to respond - time to put your headset back on and take some calls in the O2 customers service centre

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Glenvee's reply to Choppie99's Comment

Written on: 15/04/2013

I don't work for O2 lol

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Glenvee's Response to Choppie99's Review

Written on: 13/04/2013

Omg another person that likes to moan, dear me I suggest you go on J Kyle show, just shows your Mentality!.... Nothing wrong with o2 for customer service witter on to someone that cares!

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“Watch out they Sulk if leaving”

★★★☆☆

written by Purpleshadez on 03/04/2013

Granted the 18 month i was with o2 the customer service was good and Speed, reliability was better than most company's i have been with, if i ever got a single dis-collect i could call and know one of there agents would look into the matter. But once i got my MAC code so i could try another company all went to hell.. since midnight to 11am i got dis-collected 8 times, which o2 confirmed, BUT then followed but saying to me that they can only follow up on it if you have 10 Dis-collects.. in short if your with o2 and planning to leave be ready for a week or 2 of hell with customer service not caring that they managed to take 18 moths of money from you just to turn around and give you the cold shoulder. Not even my EX's have treated me as bad as o2

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“O2 changing to Sky”

★☆☆☆☆

written by Migage on 03/04/2013

Had a live webchat with O2 regarding O2's internet all moving to Sky. After reading how poor Sky appears to be from reviews here and elsewhere, I asked the O2 adviser if the move would be a complete move to Sky (and the poor service/product quality), or will there still be some of O2's service and product quality. Was told (openly which was nice) that the whole product will be taken over by Sky. I thanked the person for helping me not make a mistake to purchase the soon-to-be Sky internet package. Looks like despite the amazing offer from O2 for existing mobile phone customers, I'll be looking elsewhere for my internet

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Tynesider's Response to Migage's Review

Written on: 08/06/2013

O2 have been great for the past three years I have been with them. I then find out they are stabbing their customers in the back with a move to Sky, who I left to go to O2 in the first place. I had just signed a years contract and only a day or so later I was told the bad news. The problem I now have is which ISP do I go to next Jan when my contract runs out? All the big names like Sky,BT etc have very poor reviews. Shame on O2 for letting all of their loyal customers down.

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Asterix100's Response to Migage's Review

Written on: 23/06/2013


If you're unhappy about joining Sky, you can cancel your contract without charge as long as you do it before you're fully moved over to sky around autumn 2013.

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“Very slow broadband regularly disconnecting”

★★☆☆☆

written by on 15/03/2013

After 18 months of continual disconnection (approx once every hour) and repairing the connection to get a decent speed, I have finally decided to look elsewhere. Customer Services have been great and polite, whom I have contacted on various occasions, but long term does not solve the connection problem. This does not in any way relate to my computer as it is the service I believe according to the computer techs (had a full health check). I have broadband, landline and mobile account with 02, so I will contact the disconnection department very shortly. Who is the BEST broadband provider ???

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Glenvee's Comment

Written on: 13/04/2013

The best provider is actually O2 I've been to several and O2 by far is the greatest I think you need to check properly at your computer because the speed is fantastic with O2.. If you're thinking of leaving as you said do not go with BT Infinity as their Customer Service is very poor and Broadband speed is very poor O2 is much faster plus much cheaper!

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“frustrating”

★☆☆☆☆

written by on 06/03/2013

I never felt so much frustrated dealing with a customer service, ever! I moved to a new flat and wanted to bring the broadband. After one month I spent so much money on calling O2 CS because they wouldn't call me back. Every time had to explain the whole story from scratch to someone who in the end wouldn't care at all. They couldn't solve a simple problem as identifying the correct line to take over (they were trying to take over my neughnour line in a 2 flat building!). In the end the only solution they would offer me was to cancel my contract. So frustrating you really can't imagine. Happy to move away from them.

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“Am cancelling ASAP!!”

★☆☆☆☆

written by on 18/02/2013

I had been with O2 for my mobile for 5-6 years and had home broadband for 2 years, with no problems, that was until we moved house in December 2012. I called O2 explaining that we were going to be moving. I did say that I wasn't too happy with the £26 a month we were paying for home broadband and the home phone as we barely use either so said that because we were now moving then we 'may' cancel and go with another provider as I had found much cheaper deals. They told me that they could offer me half price line rental so that our total monthly bill would be £17 instead of £26, which I was happy to go along with. So this is where all the problems started.....we had to pay £42 for an engineer to install the line at the new house, which I was fine to pay, but they changed the date of the engineers visit twice leaving us without broadband and a phone line for longer than they orginally said. My partner and I both work full time so we arranged for our retired neighbour to let the engineer in to the house (they gave us a time frame odf 12-5pm which is ridiculous as they should be more specific). I spoke to someone from O2 and asked if it was okay for the neighbour to let the engineer in to the property, they said yes and suggested leaving a note on the door detailing this and also leave my mobile on so they could call if they had any problems. I left the note and my neighbour was in all day but didn't see anyone. A few days later I got an email saying that we had 'missed' our appointment and they were going to charge us £50. I was furious as you can imagine and immediately called them up and they apologised and said they would leave a note saying that we didn't have to pay the £50 charge. So the engineer finally made his visit and installed the line fine, I thought that was the end of it but it wasn't. A week later I got the bill through from O2 and they had charged me the £42 for the engineers visit but also the £50 charge for the 'missed appointment'. I called them up and spent about an hour on the phone where I was told that I would have to pay the charge of £50 because there were no notes on their system to say that we didn't have to pay it. I told them that my neighbour had been at home all day and hadn't seen an engineer, but he said that it was not okay for someone else to let the engineer in to the property, it had to be the account holder letting the engineer in. I told him that just a week before someone from O2 had advised me that it was perfectly fine for a neigbour to let them have access to the property and they suggested writing the note too. O2 completely contradict themselves because now I was being told that we the account holders had to physically be present at the property to let access for the engineer, and yet the installation had been carried out by my neighbour letting them in so it doesn't make any sense. It's an absolute joke that just because someone failed to make the notes (when they said that they would), meant that I was facing a £50 for something that was their fault in the first place because no engineer turned up!! I threatened to take the matter further because I was the one in the right and was no way going to pay the charge, so eventually they wavered the charge, which I was obviously glad about, but I've just received my latest bill which should now be £17 per month as they were going to cut my line rental in half, but my bill is for £28 (more than I was paying before!!) I called O2 again explaining that the only reason I took out another 12 month contract is because it was going to be reduced to £17, but yet again 'there are no notes on your account detailing a reduction in payment'. The only reason I decided to stay with O2 was because they were reducing my monthly contract and so now we've paid £42 for the engineer to come out, they have 'no knowledge' of a reduction in payment so were stuck paying more than we were paying before. I am beyond annoyed with all of the aggravation and stress this has caused so I'm going to call and cancel the whole thing, we're now £42 out of pocket for having the line installed in the first place. O2 are an absolutely joke and I would strongly advise anyone to steer well clear.

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Liverpoolblonde's Comment

Written on: 18/02/2013

Following my earlier review of O2 Broadband and home phone, I called back and said that I wish to cancel and close my account. I was put through to a lovely lady who actually listened to me (for once) and was very sympathetic to all of the issues that I've had with O2 over the past couple of months.

She was great and gave me a really great deal so finally I'm pleased!! I'd still rather have not had to deal with all of the rubbish that O2 have put me through since moving house (like moving house isn't stressful enough) but I do appreciate the deal that they have now given me and as long as there are no more problems then I will be sticking with them.

It just goes to show that one person who delivers outstanding customer service can really make a difference! I was all ready to close down my account (they obviously want to do whatever they can to keep you) and maybe I was just lucky today and got a great lady on the end of the phone who couldn't have been more friendly and helpful, so at least not everyone who works at O2 is so bad. I just hope that's the end of it now!

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Robertito's Comment

Written on: 30/03/2013

At the moment O2 need to keep their customers before they complete the Sky deal, so if you are out of contract and ask for a MAC, they will offer you free broadband for a year.

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