Re: Big Welcome to Virgin Media Ireland
 

It's quite a common thing to lure customers in with a cheap bargain in the hope you can make a good profit off of other items. Supermarkets make a loss of some products knowing you'll make up for it by buying others. Printers are famous for being sold at a loss and having expensive ink. Not exactly the same, but close enough.

I do wonder how much line rental actually costs Virgin. I assume they have to give BT a cut of it? I'm hoping with their VoIP rollout, they can drop the cost of line rental.

Re: Big Welcome to Virgin Media Ireland
 

Or the other way round: BT Infinity requires you to have a phone line or you don't have broadband. The increase in line rental subsidises the broadband, obviously.

Re: Big Welcome to Virgin Media Ireland
 

On BT however you physically have to have the phone line so you are actually paying for a necessarily part of the service, whilst on VM it's actually an additional and unconnected part of the service that costs VM more to provide but has no relation to your broadband at all.

I've always found it ironic how it'd cost me less to get VM to install a second line and maintain a second set of equipment than not to - as absurd as basically paying their engineers negative salary.