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You'll not be able to get a specific price on your broadband mate as if you have a triple play bundle then you are charged a bundle price. The advertised price of the bundle is the sum of the component parts minus a bundle discount.

If you want a rough idea the standalone broadband prices can be found here http://store.virginmedia.com/broadba...ex.html#bbonly

Check out the standalone TV prices here (http://store.virginmedia.com/digital...-tv/index.html) too as each time you remove an element of the triple play bundle, the discount reduces. Therefore dependant on your package, you may find that removing certain services doesn't actually reduce you bundle costs as much as you thought.

Hope this helps :)

telegramsam - although I've answered your question, you may wish to start a new thread if you wish to discuss further as we've taken the thread off-topic (apologies mods)

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Breaking: Premier League TV rights to be probed by Ofcom

Ofcom has opened an investigation into how the Premier League sells live TV media rights for Premier League football matches in the UK.

The investigation will be carried out under the Competition Act.

It follows a complaint from Virgin Media, which was submitted to Ofcom in September.

Ofcom investigates where there are reasonable grounds for suspecting an agreement may be intended to prevent, restrict or distort competition.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30095012

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About time too.

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excellent news but somehow i feel it'll come back to bite us all....

the EPL will always always find a way to keep the money rolling in regardless of whether its legal or not. its got past the point of no return again

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There will be no change, as the report will no doubt find that no agreement stands, and Ofcom will of failed again to get everyone a better deal for watching football.

For £3bn you would think that would give you the rights to show all matches live, not just via Sky & BT. Why not create smaller packages of games that other TV companies could bid for?

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Better still why doesn't the premier league setup its own channel and distribute across all platforms and online.

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Yup, cos we are all forced to pay them what they want. It's not as if people have a choice whether or not they can cancel their sports subscription....oh, wait.

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A excellent idea but one unlikely to happen.

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If you love football and you've watched for many, many years and enjoy watching then you can't? i understand the point you're making but for people who do enjoy watching sport and its one of lifes little pleasures then you dont want to cancel?

The point i'm making is costs will continue to spiral both watching at the grounds and on tv because of the lack of controls on our sport at the moment. we have the most expensive league for attending and for tv subscriptions in all of europe. thats a fact.

Things will never ever improve for fairness if we just say "well we can cancel if it gets too much"

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Indeed people have a choice in a good many things in life as some spend their money on a good many other things which they enjoy and at the end of the day its all about personal choice and whether people want to stump up to continue their enjoyment of such things.

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Great idea, but that would mean them spending their own money to set it up!

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The sooner they just offer legal streaming the better. I subscribe to SS and get BT with the package I am on and most weekends my team on TV. I know if I wanted I could get the match with 3 clicks from the search. The burying the head in the sand approach cant continue for much longer and hopefully this investigation will give them kick in the bum to do something about it. Watching "TV" on the virgin box for me and my family is now at the level of just watching IMACGMOOH and live football. They need to get with the times now.

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Well of course there is no difference if Breaking Bad is exclusive to Netflix. I'm not saying it's ok for Netflix to have an exclusivity arrangement but Sky can't!

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So you are quite happy with the status quo and the fact that Virgin Media cannot show Sky Atlantic? That's a strange position for you to take, surely?

Unless, of course, you don't want Sky Atlantic or you are happy for Sky to decide who gets what in relation to Sky Sports channels!

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Agreed, we must get some common sense into this.

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We all know the answer why - it will get more money from auctioning the rights than it will get from setting up its own platform.

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Agreed reading my post back I worded it poorly , I was more meaning in an ideal world where the fan was put first and every platform gained equal access.

Of course these bumper paydays for the premier league are reliant on people continuing to subscribe to pay TV , whilst figures are holding their own at the moment it can easily go the other way especially as the streaming market matures , more and more US Sports broadcasters are offering online only access with no need for a pay TV subscription.