BeThere Broadband

Does anyone have any experience of BeThere

https://www.bethere.co.uk/homebroadband.do

They've just installed their kit in our local exchange and I have to
make a decision whether to ditch NTL for them or not

 

Tiny outfit with 10,000 customers who are trying to sell out to anyone
who will buy them. Overpromised on speeds for scumter collation then
fell out of favour as the ADSL+2 crowd and cable started 10Mbit
service.

Want to get out of their initial promise for high speed by introducing
restrictions. Nothing paid off and they are stuck with 24Mbit broadband
at a loss, until they can crash burn or restrict their subscribers and
get someone to damn well buy them out.

A loss making enterprise designed to farm in customers of a late IPTV
system that failed beyond belief, avoid at all costs and never sign up
beyond 3 months.

 

Thanks for that

 

O2 have owned them for a while.

Don't know if they are any good though.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/ma...0.xml&sSheet=/money/2006/06/20/ixcitytop.html


Mobile phone group O2, now owned by Spain's Telefonica, has followed rivals
into the broadband market with the acquisition of provider Be for £50m.

The move will pitch it against former parent company BT in the fiercely
competitive home broadband market.
Be is among the UK's most advanced internet technology groups, offering
ultra high speed 24Mb broadband. It has rolled out its network to more than
150 local exchanges and plans to be in more than 400 by the end of the year,
providing about 50pc population coverage, O2 said in a statement.

Coverage will be extended to 70pc by the end of 2007, making it one of the
UK's largest broadband providers by installed local loop unbundled
exchanges.

O2's move into broadband follows BSkyB's purchase of Easynet earlier this
year, and its anticipated summer launch, as well as Carphone Warehouse's
highly popular £21 monthly phone-and-broadband service. With Vodafone having
also unveiled fixed-line ambitions, the UK market is poised for a broadband
war.

Pressure on O2 has grown since cable group NTL's £962m takeover of Virgin
Mobile. Last month, it revealed plans to move into broadband "within
months". The strategy will be to bundle broadband with existing mobile
offerings in a single bill.

Peter Erskine, chief executive of O2, said: "Building on our existing
fixed/mobile capability in Germany, the Czech Republic and the Isle of Man,
Be's superior broadband operations and services help us fulfil our
previously-stated aim of adding high quality broadband capability to our
portfolio in the UK."

Be was founded in October 2004 and is privately owned by its founders,
employees and investors. One of the main beneficiaries of the sale will be
Thor Bjorgolfsson, a 38-year-old billionaire and Iceland's richest man. He
was a major investor in Be's origiinal £24.5m fund raising.

Be is currently building its own national broadband network by installing
local loop unbundling equipment in local telecommunications exchanges around
the country.