Re: Virgin Media to raise broadband and phone prices in Feb 2015
 

Yes but 10mb is enough to do browsing/streaming which is all most punters do.

Re: Virgin Media to raise broadband and phone prices in Feb 2015
 

Yeah i get that but i want to ditch the LL as well, it galls me that i pay that much for something and get constant cold calls. Nobody phones me on it as they know i very rarely answer. If i'm sat right next to the phone i'll answer it and say hello, if no-one replys within a second i cut it off. Heck, even my aged parents call my mobile now.

I have some money left over from a bonus at work so i'm going to splash that on a BT/Humax box. I've seen posts where people say they have 30mb BB and basic TV for £25.

I'll see what they say but i'm pretty determined to cut the cord. Shame really as i've been a cable customer for 25 years.

Re: Virgin Media to raise broadband and phone prices in Feb 2015
 

Unless you're one of the lucky few who can get 330Mbit or 1000Mbit.

Then again with BT FTTPoD, far more people can get 330Mbit than VM's 152Mbit, just at higher install cost. Still, if it ended up £30 a month cheaper than VM it'd only take four years to make back the difference!

Re: Virgin Media to raise broadband and phone prices in Feb 2015
 

Seems Sky have changed their attitude towards retention a bit too.

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The cheapest I've seen FTTPoD / FoD for is £175+VAT / month for a 500GB peak time transfer limit, and 500GB off-peak.

FoD is still not available to as many people as VM's 152Mb yet. It's far from ubiquitous in its coverage of FTTC areas. About 4.7 million premises passed at last announcement of coverage.

Re: Virgin Media to raise broadband and phone prices in Feb 2015
 

Currently £85, due to go up to £99 when half price Sky Sports deal ends, and then obviously the February price rises are due on top of that. I told them about the Sky deal, and I've also been flirting with TalkTalk and reducing my outgoings significantly, but they couldn't come close to matching it. I've read that sometimes customer service agents have quotas of special deals and sometimes it's worth a second or third call back, but I not really interested in chasing them.

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I think they're missing the point for an awful lot of average internet users.

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It's pretty much what I experienced when I left Sky for Virgin 4 years ago to be honest. This is the first year I haven't been impressed with Virgin retentions.

Re: Virgin Media to raise broadband and phone prices in Feb 2015
 

This isn't free or cheaper. For TVM you have to have an active subscription, and to get TVM with a TiVo you pay an extra £10 for the facility. It doesn't offer all the freeview or freesat channels!

Re: Virgin Media to raise broadband and phone prices in Feb 2015
 

Then why are we comparing the 152Mbit service to Sky/BT/etc. and not the 50mbit service?

Re: Virgin Media to raise broadband and phone prices in Feb 2015
 

The 152 product is what they offered to try and keep me, I'm currently on the 50 and even that is more than I need.

Re: Virgin Media to raise broadband and phone prices in Feb 2015
 

Did they not even try to offer you a deal with the 50? I'm surprised they'd try to push you onto a higher tier rather than put the effort in to keeping you. Bit odd.

Re: Virgin Media to raise broadband and phone prices in Feb 2015
 

It was for me. I was surprised when they told me it would be cheaper to keep my existing Tivo with M TV, rather than dump TV altogether (I did say "and already have a Tivo" in my original post). I had checked the prices on the web before phoning them and the price I ended up paying was less than the web price for just BB and phone; It was the CS rep that suggested that I keep the Tivo with M TV in order to reduce the price

I know TV M doesn't have all the Freeview channels, but it's close enough for me. especially when you get (in my view) the best PVR around to go with it.

I was offered 152mb upgrade from 50mb too. With nothing else offered for my current package. £7 credit a month (my current one is £11) if I upgraded.

I haven't decided yet, and this is the first time I haven't taken up a retentions deal.
I'm thinking of keeping 50mb dropping everything else, £26.50 a month with NowTV, Netflix and Spotify, Total £49.97 saving me around £70 a month.
I just need to get a recordable Freeview or Freesat box sorted, will use the Rental Saver money to get one.

Re: Virgin Media to raise broadband and phone prices in Feb 2015
 

That's at £80 per month, which is £20 or so less than advertised. It's also £15 more than the Sky offer for their equivalent package. Perhaps I've been a little unfair in saying they didn't work hard to keep me, but they didn't work hard enough.

Re: Virgin Media to raise broadband and phone prices in Feb 2015
 

It's a shame that you feel they didn't do more to keep you Andy. I think you are right too with the broadband speeds as for a lot of homes, the bottom tier 50Mb will be more than sufficient. I hope you therefore get the right deal for you, whichever the provider.

Also, quick question for any of the more experienced users on here but on reading back through this thread, I noticed a thumbs down icon in the title of my earlier post (http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/35742892-post81.html). Not seen this before, is this some sort of negative rating for my post? :confused:

Re: Virgin Media to raise broadband and phone prices in Feb 2015
 

Maybe you selected it from "Post Icons" when posting? (See mine has a lightbulb)

Re: Virgin Media to raise broadband and phone prices in Feb 2015
 

Ahh, thanks spiderplant. Must have clicked it accidentally when posting, d'oh! ;)