{"id":3390,"date":"2013-05-31T02:27:52","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T01:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=3390"},"modified":"2013-05-31T09:06:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T08:06:10","slug":"o2-uk-scraps-bt-hotspots-in-favour-of-its-own-wifi-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/05\/o2-uk-scraps-bt-hotspots-in-favour-of-its-own-wifi-network.html","title":{"rendered":"UPD O2 UK Scrap Free BT Hotspots in Favour of its Own WiFi Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile operator <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-68\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/o2uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"o2\">O2<\/a> UK has abandoned their existing agreement with BTOpenzone (BTWiFi), which gave their customers access to thousands of <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-145\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"BT\">BT<\/a>&#8217;s additional national UK hotspots, in favour of their own O2Wifi network (8,000 free hotspots).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The writing for this has been on the wall ever since <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-68\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/o2uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"o2\">O2<\/a> began to &#8220;<em>rapidly build<\/em>&#8221; the coverage of their own FREE public <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-124 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/wifi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"wifi\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_wireless.php\">WiFi<\/a> (Wireless Internet) network in 2011 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/story\/2011\/10\/05\/o2-uk-moves-to-rapidly-expand-its-free-wireless-internet-wifi-hotspot-service.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), which seems to have become even more important now that <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-86\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/bskyb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Sky Broadband\">Sky Broadband<\/a> (BSkyB) has dragged their fixed line broadband and phone customers to a new home. <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-145\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"BT\">BT<\/a>&#8217;s recent move into the <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-116 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"4g\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_mobile.php\">4G<\/a> mobile market might also have made O2 extra nervous.<\/p>\n<p>Since then business ISP Fluidata has also agreed to a new \u201c<em>multi-million pound contract<\/em>\u201d with O2, which will supply the mobile operator with a <strong>new core network<\/strong> and enough \u201c<em>last mile<\/em>\u201d data capacity to support the expansion of their <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-124 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/wifi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"wifi\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_wireless.php\">wifi<\/a> platform (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/05\/fluidata-to-provide-o2-uk-with-new-core-network-for-wifi-and-extra-capacity.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>). Suffice to say that O2 and BT have been moving apart for the past few years but it takes time to build an alternative.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.o2.co.uk\/wifiservices\" target=\"_blank\">FAQ page on O2&#8217;s website<\/a>, which is titled &#8220;<em>Goodbye BT Openzone. Hello O2 Wifi<\/em>&#8220;, explains that the change itself will take effect from <strong>1st July 2013<\/strong>. After that the only way to connect with a BTOpenzone hotspot will be if you pay them separately for the privilege or take one of BT&#8217;s fixed line broadband packages. Otherwise you&#8217;ll have to hope that O2 has one of its 8,000 hotspots near to your location.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 9:04am<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>O2 has clarified that the old BT deal only gave customers access to Openzone&#8217;s &#8220;<em>premium managed hotspot<\/em>&#8221; estate, which apparently totals just 4.2k hotspots. Never the less that&#8217;s still 4.2k that O2 customers can no longer access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile operator O2 UK has abandoned their existing agreement with BTOpenzone (BTWiFi), which gave their customers access to thousands of BT&#8217;s additional national UK hotspots, in favour of their own O2Wifi network (8,000 free hotspots).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[474,32,476],"class_list":["post-3390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bt","tag-o2","tag-wifi"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UPD O2 UK Scrap Free BT Hotspots in Favour of its Own WiFi Network - 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