Attention Virgin Media broadband customers!!!!!

[Polo]

Evening and all that.

I was just perusing my Virgin Media bill (don't normally touch the bills - I leave them for the missus to sort) and noticed we are still paying £25 for 10mb cable broadband which I thought is quite a lot in this day and age.

I went onto their website to see what other packages they had as we have their phone service too and thought I might get a combined package.

I noticed new customers were being offered 10mb broadband, stand alone, for a initial £5 pm for 3 months and then £14pm thereafter.

Poised for a fight I rung them up. 10 minutes later I have a £80 credit applied to my account, a upgraded modem being sent out to allow me to receive my new 20mb broadband, for £20 per month.

No arguing or anything. OK, they should have added a £11 credit per month, automatically, to my bill but credit where credit is due, they sorted it all out themselves with no input from me.

Check your bills people!!!
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[Pete.]

Nice one there - thanks for the tip. Can't see the point of doubling the bill for double the speed. Is 10mb not enough?
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[Phoenix]

Yeah, try leaving, that's when you'll hit problems.

Maybe they have got better in the last year but I doubt it personally, still not willing to risk it, besides can't be doing with locking myself into a 12month contract with potentially the same crap again.

[Polo]

I have had their cbale broadband for around 10 years now and have maybe had around 3 outages of a matter of hours. So for the actual service, I can't fault them.

I am a moderate newsgrouper so 20mb for less than I was paying for 10mb is a no brainer for me personally. I can afford these little treats.


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[Dragonfly]

Sky is ripping us off in NI. I pay £17.99 for broadband a month and they give it free or for £5 in England. I had someone call to my door offering me sky who told me I should only be paying £10 as thats what they where offering so i phoned and got nothing. apparently these offers are not for my area of exchange. I think its unfair that I have to pay more. They say if it becomes cheaper they will switch it over for me, fat chance thats where they are getting their money from. Someone has to make up the short fall of people getting it free.
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[Polo]

[Pete.]

I'm sure they'd much prefer you to download newsgroup binaries than use torrents since the files only need to be propagated across networks once then all of the traffic is on their own system. Also, the cable system being heavily biased towards downloads doesn't suffer a heavy upload penalty sice you don't have to share files to get newsgroup stuff.
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Dragonfly]

Btinternet is rubbish, they refused to fix my line which they seen wasnt my fault that discconnect 30 times a day at least! I was always on the phone to them, cost me a fortune,. They refunded me a year of internet usage but only off the stupid bill they send me so I got nothing back but debt. I couldnt get away from them fast enough! never will I go back. They cost me so much more than sky did. No one is cheap here, loads advertise about cheap net but its always not available here. its a bit like false advertising as I have called them to ask about it and been disappointed.

talk talk offer it free in some areas, guess what! just not where I live.

I am also only 1 mile from the exchange. And virgin dont work here,. Just the main ones like orange,bt, sky blablabla.
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He's too busy beating the everloving shit out of Lizzie to notice this thread has taken a turn down Drama Avenue and stopped off at the popcorn shop.

[Noxious89123]

Thanks very much for this! I'm on the 10Mb/s for £25/m! Will get onto it asap.


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[Mr.Everready]

[Noxious89123]

My mother has just been on the phone to Virgin Media (It's all in her name, won't talk to me).

We don't have phone with them, but it still says that for 10Mb its £15/m for the first 3, and then £20/m there after.

And we're paying £24! They just said it was new customers only and weren't interested. Told my mum to tell them to fuck off and cancel it, but she refused, says she doesn't want the hassle

Whatever, I don't pay the bill...
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[Dragonfly]

[Mr.Everready]

That's why you can't get free broadband, my exchange is the same.
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[Dragonfly]

[Fnatic]

Just spent 3 hours arguing with Virgin media, it turns out you have to have their phone line to get that deal.

Nice one, fucking ace.