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dev 09-06-2009 19:05

Re: Is it worth keeping Virgin if Setanta goes bust
 
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Originally Posted by Mullington (Post 34811063)
What I mean is, would we get an instant rebate? would new channel bundles be concocted? People will be looking towards replacement Sky Sports channels along their current pricing structures.

Seeing as you're on XL TV and setanta is free on that, i'm sure VM will happily refund the full £0.

Mullington 09-06-2009 19:09

Re: Is it worth keeping Virgin if Setanta goes bust
 
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Originally Posted by dev (Post 34811088)
Seeing as you're on XL TV and setanta is free on that, i'm sure VM will happily refund the full £0.

Same price? Less channels? No sport left in the XL package? That sounds good.

RyanB 09-06-2009 19:45

Re: Is it worth keeping Virgin if Setanta goes bust
 
You will have Eurosport - what more do you want?! :lol:

beeman 09-06-2009 19:49

Re: Is it worth keeping Virgin if Setanta goes bust
 
VirginMedia are free to add or remove channels at will to the packages. infact the setanta package was added to XL as a "replacement" to the sky basics which are now back, so they will bee under no obligation to give you a rebate etc for the loss of the channels.

That being said IF a package change (ie loss of channels) amounts to a "siginifant change in the package" you will bee free to end your contract no matter how long is left on it and switch to sky etc.

BenMcr 09-06-2009 20:56

Re: Is it worth keeping Virgin if Setanta goes bust
 
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Originally Posted by beeman (Post 34811132)
That being said IF a package change (ie loss of channels) amounts to a "siginifant change in the package" you will bee free to end your contract no matter how long is left on it and switch to sky etc.

Wrong. You can 'cancel the affected service' not the entire contract.

So if Setanta sports get removed from XL tv, you can stop taking XL tv, but that is all

beeman 09-06-2009 21:01

Re: Is it worth keeping Virgin if Setanta goes bust
 
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Originally Posted by BenMcr (Post 34811206)
Wrong. You can 'cancel the affected service' not the entire contract.

So if Setanta sports get removed from XL tv, you can stop taking XL tv, but that is all

right AND wrong. if you take the services seperatly then yes you would only bee allowed to cancil the affected servives. However IF you have a bundled deal then you would bee able to cancil the entire bundle as changes to 1 part of the bundle affects the value of the entire bundle.

note im talking from a contractual point of view NOT vm's TOS pov.

joglynne 10-06-2009 08:31

Re: Is it worth keeping Virgin if Setanta goes bust
 
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Virgin "monitoring" Setanta situation
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitalt...situation.html

frogstamper 10-06-2009 10:10

Re: Is it worth keeping Virgin if Setanta goes bust
 
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Originally Posted by ilovehd (Post 34811058)
Keep your virgin phoneline and broadband then just get sky tv!

That's definitely the best of both worlds imo.

Stephen 10-06-2009 12:18

Re: Is it worth keeping Virgin if Setanta goes bust
 
Why leave VM if Setanta closes, Sky will not have the channel either!

AndyCambs 10-06-2009 12:36

Re: Is it worth keeping Virgin if Setanta goes bust
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Stephen (Post 34811518)
Why leave VM if Setanta closes, Sky will not have the channel either!

Perhaps people will want a refund from Sky after moving if Setanta isn't there either..

howden 10-06-2009 16:25

Re: Is it worth keeping Virgin if Setanta goes bust
 
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Originally Posted by ilovehd (Post 34811058)
Keep your virgin phoneline and broadband then just get sky tv!

..doesn't Sky require you to have a BT phone line if you take their TV?

martyh 10-06-2009 16:29

Re: Is it worth keeping Virgin if Setanta goes bust
 
no they say you will need it to get the full benefits eg red button voting on reality shows
it it is not a condition you can still have sky with no phone line

BenMcr 10-06-2009 16:56

Re: Is it worth keeping Virgin if Setanta goes bust
 
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Originally Posted by howden (Post 34811665)
..doesn't Sky require you to have a BT phone line if you take their TV?

If it is just for the TV service itself you can use any Phoneline - you only need a BT one if you want Sky Talk/BB

ilovehd 10-06-2009 17:11

Re: Is it worth keeping Virgin if Setanta goes bust
 
No i have sky hd with a virgin phoneline and broadband all sky need it to set up there box is a phoneline to do a callback on to activate the box! Cheap sky hd courtesy of step dad awsum!

on in an hour! 10-06-2009 17:32

Re: Is it worth keeping Virgin if Setanta goes bust
 
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Originally Posted by Mullington (Post 34811092)
Same price? Less channels? No sport left in the XL package? That sounds good.

when VM added setanta to the XL package there was no price rise (granted there may have been since,but not related to setanta) to reflect the setanta channels added to the package,so you would do well to get a refund ;)


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