Virgin Media Phone Expensive and Uncompetitive

[tridens]

Hi i was looking at virgin TV only the sales guy was very pushy and detirmined for me to take the phone service which i dont want
looking at the costs it seams very expensive eg

Virgin line rental £11.99 April 1st £12.99
calls pm 6.5p April 7.5pm
no Evning calls or £3.45
no free 0845 0870 10p pm
conection per call 10p April 11pm
caller disply £2.00

I get

line rentall £11.49
free evning weekends calls
calls day 4.6p
free 0845 0870 calls which save me a fortune
free privacy caller display

i phoned my phone company and complained about my phone if they could save me money they gave me free calls any time day evning weekends for 6 months when they normally charge £4.00 extra per month so im very happy :D

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Price change

http://www.virginmedia.com/myvirginmedia/price-changes.php

[BenMcr]

Virgin line rental £11.99 April 1st £12.99It's not going to £12.99

On the 1st April it goes from £11 to £11.99

[tridens]

I just looked on web page to order service shopping basket

Description Monthly One-off Add more..
Phone
12 month contract

Remove £3.45 Add phone options..
International and mobile extras, calling features

Virgin Phone Line Rental £11.99
Standard Installation £35.00
E-bill
Switch to paper-bill £0.00
Your Cost Summary:
Total one-off cost £35.00
Total monthly cost £15.44
Empty basket
Continue shopping

[BenMcr]

And?

[tridens]

its £11.99 Now
April going to 12.99

Our price changes explained

Some of our prices will be increasing from 1st April. The good news is, most will be staying exactly as they are. To see how the changes may affect you, take a look at the tables below.
From 1st April there will be an increase to line rental plus some rate changes. The tables below show the changes.
Phone price changes

[BenMcr]

The website already shows the April changes - because by the time you are billed for the services it will be April

[tridens]

ok thanks

[Xan]

:)its a good deal for me landline up 99p but i get free calls to virgin mobile from virgin landline (which all my family is on).

[greyfox1974]

:)its a good deal for me landline up 99p but i get free calls to virgin mobile from virgin landline (which all my family is on).


yes it maybe all good for you but some ppl who may not have a virgin mobile fone I do fone 0845 n 0870 number's a lot for me bank and stuff virgin are ripping us of cos last year bt have came down in they call plan's for talk unlimited it is now £ 4.99 and virgin kinda follows what bt are doing but they havent if you dont believe here it is in black n white

http://www.calls.bt.com/ppc/cablepackages/?s_intcid=con_intban_h1_Packages_q4_Winterdealsdua l_Virgin_landing


so to me they dont care about they costumers but just they profits

[tridens]

Thats right when i phone my bank or gas elec company you get charged 10pm free 0845 0870 save me a lot of money one time when i phoned one of these numbers the call lasted 30 minutes charged £3

[Hugh]

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[greyfox1974]

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yes but virgin should be given us them for free bt n talk talk are given them for free but good old virgin aint they as tight as a duck's backside

[Hugh]

No, they are a business, interested in making money (strange, that.....),

[greyfox1974]

No, they are a business, interested in making money (strange, that.....),


yes i knows that but when other companys offer the same kinda call unlimited package and they want less for it and virgin dont follow bt is a bigger company than virgin and bt are losing money why put they price's down and if it wasnt for the costumer's who pay they bill's they wouldnt be any company's

[sollp]

Yeah but...!

[greyfox1974]

Yeah but...!



is that all you gotta say is ( yes but ) lol

[neilo]

First telecom Cable Saver package.

[m419]

Try and compare Virgin Phone with BT, they don't differ that much.

BT Line Rental: £11.54
Virgin phone line rental: £11.99

BT Calling Features: £2.59
Virgin phone Calling Features: £2

BT Anonymous Caller Rejection: £4 per month
Virgin phone Anonymous Caller Rejection: £2 per month

1471 + 3 on BT: 12p everytime you press 3
1471 + 3 on Virgin Phone: Completely Free

Call connection costs to UK landlines,Mobiles and 08 numbers:

BT: 9.9p connection fee on every chargeable call
Virgin phone: 10p for every chargeable call (Hardly a big difference)

BT offer 0845 and 0870 numbers as part of your inclusive calls,Virgin offer Virgin Mobile calls as part of your inclusive calls, most companies are moving to 0843,0844 and 0871 numbers because of getting no revenue share through 0845 and 0870 numbers.

So to be honest there isn't much difference but if you want to make dirt cheap calls then 18185 is for you, to use this via Virgin and non-BT landlines, they will give you a 0800 access number.

[sollp]

is that all you gotta say is ( yes but ) lol

Yes as it will just end up as another thread with someone not wanting to have it any other way, IE, "VM Rips you off". Hence my simple input!

[Xan]

yes it maybe all good for you but some ppl who may not have a virgin mobile fone I do fone 0845 n 0870 number's a lot for me bank and stuff virgin are ripping us of cos last year bt have came down in they call plan's for talk unlimited it is now £ 4.99 and virgin kinda follows what bt are doing but they havent if you dont believe here it is in black n white

http://www.calls.bt.com/ppc/cablepackages/?s_intcid=con_intban_h1_Packages_q4_Winterdealsdua l_Virgin_landing


so to me they dont care about they costumers but just they profits


virgin are ripping you off move to BT

[Wild Oscar]

Once you have the phone line you can always use call18866 or one of the other similar services .. and you get the basic TV service free.

Suits me anyway ..

[m419]

Like I said before if your gonna have Virgin TV or Broadband, you might as well take the phone as well,but rather than choosing Talk Unlimited, try Talk Anywhere or 18185 otherwise the cost of the TV and/or broadband will go up so you would be wasting your time,

XL TV: £23
Virgin Phone M package(Talk Weekends): £11.99
Total: Around £35 per month

XL TV: £29 (Cost of XL TV without taking Virgin phone)
BT Anytime Call plan and BT line rental: £11.54 plus £4.99 for Anytime call plan
Total: £45.54

And how much do you spend on 0845 and 0870 calls? About £5? So there you are it would be pointless switching for that reason, so rather than switching, you may want to look at services you can take out over what you already have like 18185, the service is accessible via an 020 or 0800 number.


Talk Anywhere 200 offers 200 minutes and line rental for £20 per month and offers inclusive calls to all UK mobiles,landlines and 0845 and 0870 numbers.

And besides, most businesses are migrating to 0843,0844,0871,0872 and 0873 numbers which are NOT included in BT calling plans.

And like I said before Calling features are more expensive and the evening call rate is being shifted to 7pm.

[pushtotalk]

As m419 says, if you're gonna get VM for TV and broadband I think it rarely makes sense to not have a VM phone. I used to be with TT and they were great value but not cost effective to have them for phone and VM for other services. I use localphone.com to make calls abroad (usually no more than 0.9p/min) and for calls to 0845/0870 which are usually about 4.5p/min all without a connection charge. Just use my mobile in the daytime and VM phone at evenings and weekends.

[nigelmclelland]

They need to DROP the 10p call connection charge, I use the free minutes on my mobile, the landline is just for people to call me except at weekends!