Do you think BT will ever offer a better router?

[andymerrett2]

With fibre rollout, the SH2 is really showing its age. Do you think BT will ever offer a better router! I’d even pay for it. Yes I could just buy my own but I do want to ensure it’s fully compatible with BT’s services. Surely a new version hast to come soon. 

[WSH]

In that case go on Ebay etc. and buy an EE Wi-Fi 6 or 7 router.  I'm told they're compatible.

[andymerrett2]

That isn’t what I asked though. 

I’m also not happy about buying off eBay especially as these routers could still technically be EE property or otherwise compromised. 

[Kodikid]

Short answer no

BT wanted all it's broadband/tv customers to migrate to EE

Then the rationale was for EE to be the premium offering with all the latest tech and plusnet the budget option with the previous generation tech

BT tv transformation to EEtv was seamless but the broadband encountered a great reluctance from it's traditional base to move to EE

The idea was abandoned and since then BT broadband has remained in limbo with still a desire to push people towards EE

The vastly superior EE router's are a bargaining chip in the constant push towards EE

[andymerrett2]

This seems to answer one of my other forum questions about confusion on BT and EE. 

Has BT given up or been restricted from pushing EE broadband now? I remember some time ago being bombarded every time I logged in trying to get me to switch to EE. 

I genuinely don’t understand it. To me BT is the premium brand but maybe that’s just based on my history and experiences. I suppose the two companies are too large to merge and/or EE wants its own identity. I don’t really care who the name is - clearly I have EE services such as hybrid connect and some bits of the TV offering. BT’s blurb still suggests it’s giving out ‘cutting edge equipment’ but SH2 will potentially struggle on Fibre 900 over WiFi which is how most people will use it. 

[gg30340]

BT dropped moving customers to EE about a year ago. You can still move if you choose to. It may be offered to you to move but it is your choice.

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025/03/strategic-shift-as-bt-no-longer-being-ditched-as-uk-co...

At the time BT was moving customers to EE because they wanted BT to be the business brand and EE the residential brand.

This no doubt would have meant a lot of cross over in services and equipment until the move was completed at which point everything would have sported the EE branding.

When the move was cancelled it obviously made no sense to move people back to BT or replace all the EE branded equipment with BT branded equipment so both are running in tandem as are most of the services.

No doubt at some point in the future this will be revisited by BT but at present you can choose to be either a BT customer or an EE customer both of which are running as stand alone companies but are joined at the hip!