Picnic Broadband?

[wedgehog]

Ahhhh! ok so the V2 is to replace the DG434GT that the present sky BB customers use, and the V4 for Picnic. sorry I woz getting my V's mixed up Hmmm I wonder about the V3 too, maybe thats destined for yet another great idea like errr Barbecue Broadband

[NewsreadeR]

Some further clarification.

Just had a read-through of the picnic thread and in case it wasnt already apparent I can confirm that the Picnic name is not a codename as someone suggested as the SSID on the aforementioned Picnic router is in the format PicnicXXXXX.

[RickyC]

in regards to the name and some other things in this post! Picnic may be a tie up with someone else! hense why everything is being seperate and sky being a partner!

[SatDish]

more interesting stuff here Domains registered so far

[NewsreadeR]

in regards to the name and some other things in this post! Picnic may be a tie up with someone else! hense why everything is being seperate and sky being a partner!

Funny you should say that.

A few of the domains registered are registered through the same registrar as Sky

picnicmail.co.uk 17/08/07 - not sure if related
picniclinerental.co.uk 17/08/07 - not sure if related
picnicsms.co.uk 17/08/07 - not sure if related

But they all point to: Home

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[PeteC]

So, and im just wondering here,. If sky decided to go as picnic broadband totally - and as it would seem they have registered for their own forums etc, would that make skyuser redundant?

or the name i mean if the sky name disappeared

[NewsreadeR]

Why would SkyUser be redundant?

afaik Sky Broadband will still exist, Sky TV will still exist, PICNIC is the new name for the broadband for none Sky TV customers. SkyUser is for all things Sky, ie BB and TV

[RickyC]

picnic broadband by run on the sky/ Easy network however the other services may be in partnership or even run under the umbrella but are seperate companies who knows only time will tell!
NR - by the way i am a mole i secretly work at sky!

[PeteC]

Fair enough then

[RickyC]

Why would SkyUser be redundant?

afaik Sky Broadband will still exist, Sky TV will still exist, PICNIC is the new name for the broadband for none Sky TV customers. SkyUser is for all things Sky, ie BB and TV

Agree fully, Sky BB is bound to continue! And so shal we lol!