Change of username

[Anonymous]

Recently when signing in to MyO2 I've been presented with a page which proclaims: "Now you can use your email address as your O2 username to make signing in even easier." and asks for a valid e-mail address. After ignoring this a few times I've given in to the demand and provided an e-mail address. But I'm left wondering in what sense can the use of a 20 character e-mail address in place of a 12 character username "make signing in even easier"? If there's a technical reason for wanting an e-mail address as a username, fine, but why not say so instead of insulting our intelligence with a patently nonsensical platitude.

[Anonymous]

I agree, instead of an easy 6 characters, now I have to type in 18 *** characters, ridiculous! It doesn't even keep it as a cookie, so have to retype it everytime!

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your feedback. I'm not sure what to change about it now, but I'll make sure your feedback gets forwarded to the right departments.

Cheers,

Leonard

[MI5]

I assume it's so O2 can collect all our email addresses and spam us as I now get texts and emails on a daily basis with useless offers which O2 insist I NEED !!!! (Justin Bleeder tickets, I ask you ??).....Oh cynical me