Bloody Virgin Media, putting up my costs again!
Discussion
I got a mailer through today, so before I bin it, posting incase it helps anyone. No idea if good or rubbish though.
12 months contract
"A whole heap of top telly, 11 HD channels (that will be some standard package then?)
V6 Box
6 months Netflix
Box sets (whatever that is)
Vivid 100 Broadband
Talk weekends
£37 a month
also
Full House 100 - same as above but additional 230 channels, all BT Sports in HD, Virgin TV Exclusives, Kids app, TV anywhere, weekend UK and Virgin mobile calls
£70 a month
Full House 200 - Same but 200mbps £75 a month
Call Virgin and quote "TV Wishlist"
12 months contract
"A whole heap of top telly, 11 HD channels (that will be some standard package then?)
V6 Box
6 months Netflix
Box sets (whatever that is)
Vivid 100 Broadband
Talk weekends
£37 a month
also
Full House 100 - same as above but additional 230 channels, all BT Sports in HD, Virgin TV Exclusives, Kids app, TV anywhere, weekend UK and Virgin mobile calls
£70 a month
Full House 200 - Same but 200mbps £75 a month
Call Virgin and quote "TV Wishlist"
AmitG said:
I'm going to go with BT if Virgin Media raise their prices any more. They're blatantly tapping existing customers for as much as they think they can get away with.
Customer of 17 years, back when it was TeleWest and then NTL.
They've just put my price up by about 3 or 4% last month. Rung them twice today & they couldn't care less it seems so I am off. By the time you take into account some Quidco cashback (£95) & the £100 gift card BT seem to be bunging at new broadband customers Virgin aren't going to get near it. Customer of 17 years, back when it was TeleWest and then NTL.
Actually they didn't need to, they just needed to offer me something near what they give new customers & to sound like they give a toss about any of it....
Muppets. I wonder if I will get the fabled phone call....?
Kev_Mk3 said:
My virgin is up this month so going to see what they can do - possibly nothing as they are useless
I've binned it & gone to BT. maybe not quite so much TV as I get from VM but I don't watch that much. Paid a year's line rental up front & with fibre BB, evening & weekend calls & TV Max its 30 quid a month for 18 months. I'll buy a Now TV box as well for the odd Sky sports day passOn top of that £95 cashback from Quidco (it has "tracked" successfully) & they are currently giving away £100 prepaid Mastercard thing AND some Amazon echo thing. Oh, and since I don't currently have a TV ariel they are installing one for me for 60 quid as well
Hoofy said:
The problem with BT is that they sometimes have outages that last a day. At least VM's only last a couple of hours IME.
Not sure about that, I'm in SE London and last month there was an outage that started on Friday night and service was only restored on Sunday evening.There has been at least one more like that this year.
I have BT fibre broadband in my office a couple of miles away and its never blinked in 3 years - we run cloud voice services on it & its been good so am happy to risk it.....
Also had plenty of service issues with VM over the years which have been "difficult"
None of them are perfect though, its true.
Also had plenty of service issues with VM over the years which have been "difficult"
None of them are perfect though, its true.
AmitG said:
Hoofy said:
The problem with BT is that they sometimes have outages that last a day. At least VM's only last a couple of hours IME.
Not sure about that, I'm in SE London and last month there was an outage that started on Friday night and service was only restored on Sunday evening.There has been at least one more like that this year.
Narcisus said:
You will be fine ! Until you have a few people streaming 4k from Netflix parked outside our house ;-)
In reality not something I really want to do... I've opted out.... Sounds like they dont want to spend the money to do a proper job ..
Hadn't but will be opting out. I can understand if this in a city centre (where travellers normally use a mcdonalds/coffee shop anyway) but there is not much need for most to access Virgin wifi in residential areas as people have a few GB of data on their phones.In reality not something I really want to do... I've opted out.... Sounds like they dont want to spend the money to do a proper job ..
Plus if Virgin want to use more of my electricity to make themselves more money they can blimmin well pay for it.
Gassing Station | Computers, Gadgets & Stuff | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff