A little bit of our background broadband history with EE
FTTC - The green cabinet is about 40m from our front door
CompuServe - 1994 our first internet provider
Wanadoo - 1997 we moved to Wanadoo from CompuServe, then it became Orange, then Freeserve
Freeserve - 2002 after the merger our email became ....@....freeserve.co.uk
Orange - 2007 our email stayed the same ...@....freeserve.co.uk
EE - 2009 we were still using our ....@....freeserve.co.uk
FTTP - 2015 we were notified that we would soon have FTTP via BT Openreach Fibre Checker but the date kept being pushed back & then nothing.
EE no longer supported emails and advised everyone to change to another provider, in our case ....@gmail.com
4GEE - after years of poor internet speeds, we upgraded to 4GEE due to buffering on the smart TV on catchup or streaming
It wasn't really much better but it appears the multi transmitters very close by, when switching were the cause of the slow downloads after a lot of chasing and the engineers at EE after several years.
Virgin Media - January 2025 we had by then had enough, VM were a similar price at £31.16 and offering the M250 roughly 283mb/s.
FTTP - December 2025, after waiting roughly 13 years, it was available to order.
EE Full Fibre - When our Virgin Media contract expires in July 2026 (we're still in credit) we may possibly move back to EE with their Core Plan 300mb/s £32.99 in March 2026 to £36.99 in March 2027 but that will depend of the price compared to Virgin Media.
Our landline ceased when we changed to 4GEE, which was annoying at the time but now, like many others use our mobiles, If memory serves me correctly, we started with T-Mobile in 2000 that then merged into EE over the decades. I can not remember who my first mobile provider was in 1994, when I purchased the Sony CMH 333 (the Mars Bar).
