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jobbie8 25-11-2014 09:11
A rise of £4.64 for me, no break down available.

Called again today:

I can have the Big Kahuna (152mb)
free weekend calls
with Line Renral Saver
Keep my 3 Tivos
£65.79
Including prise rise.

I currently pay £75.00

I would be dropping XL call plan to weekends only

And BB up from 50MB.

Haven't got the faintest idea how they got to the new price?

japitts 25-11-2014 09:56
Re: Virgin Media to raise broadband and phone prices in Feb 2015
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr K (Post 35742170)
Another inflation busting rise. Inflation is 1.3% at the moment, and earnings less than that. Surely turning red to purple can't cost that much ? Any 'free' change or 'upgrade' from VM is soon followed by a price rise, getting a bit predictable. If they'd managed to invest in their network and fix the congestion causing iPlayer issues, but they haven't and it doesn't work. Where's the money going? It isn't into the network, but going to shareholders. Cheeky doesn't begin to describe it.
If and when I get the letter.. that's going to be my thrust of complaint. Perhaps I'm doing the networks guys a disservice, but trying to get some dates out of CS for when the peak-time-issues will be cleared in my area - is fast becoming as frustrating as the issues themselves.

1andrew1 25-11-2014 10:01
Re: Virgin Media to raise broadband and phone prices in Feb 2015
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by jobbie8 (Post 35743054)
A rise of £4.64 for me, no break down available.

Called again today:

I can have the Big Kahuna (152mb)
free weekend calls
with Line Renral Saver
Keep my 3 Tivos
£65.79
Including prise rise.

I currently pay £75.00

I would be dropping XL call plan to weekends only

And BB up from 50MB.

Haven't got the faintest idea how they got to the new price?
I don't think it really matters how they calculate these things, I think it's more a case of is the package and price right? Faster broadband is all well and good but do you really need it? What else could you do with that money? Netflix? A weekend away?

jobbie8 25-11-2014 10:26
Quote:
Originally Posted by 1andrew1:35743064

I don't think it really matters how they calculate these things, I think it's more a case of is the package and price right? Faster broadband is all well and good but do you really need it? What else could you do with that money? Netflix? A weekend away?
Only other offer was 100MB for 11p, yes 11p cheaper than £65.79. No offers for keeping 50MB. Which is more than enough already.

I am undecided on whether to sign up for another year, just gone through my Series Links, I only have 6 which I would lose if I ditched the TV the rest are on Freeview and we only used the landline for 31 mins in October.

Hmm.... I've got some thinking to do. Lol

cj136uk 25-11-2014 10:43
Re: Virgin Media to raise broadband and phone prices in Feb 2015
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by jobbie8 (Post 35743067)
Only other offer was 100MB for 11p, yes 11p cheaper than £65.79. No offers for keeping 50MB. Which is more than enough already.

I am undecided on whether to sign up for another year, just gone through my Series Links, I only have 6 which I would lose if I ditched the TV the rest are on Freeview and we only used the landline for 31 mins in October.

Hmm.... I've got some thinking to do. Lol
Is there any reason why the £ figures you right come out as gibberish on my computer. I can't tell what you paid or pay!

jobbie8 25-11-2014 12:02
Re: Virgin Media to raise broadband and phone prices in Feb 2015
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by cj136uk (Post 35743070)
Is there any reason why the £ figures you right come out as gibberish on my computer. I can't tell what you paid or pay!
Sorry about that, I'm not sure why, but I posted on my mobile, £ signs show fine on there but not on laptop?

I'm my on laptop now.

I currently pay £75 amonth
New offer with increased BB to 152Mb and downgrading phone to M (weekends) is £65.79

cj136uk 25-11-2014 12:11
Re: Virgin Media to raise broadband and phone prices in Feb 2015
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by jobbie8 (Post 35743094)
Sorry about that, I'm not sure why, but I posted on my mobile, £ signs show fine on there but not on laptop?

I'm my on laptop now.

I currently pay £75 amonth
New offer with increased BB to 152Mb and downgrading phone to M (weekends) is £65.79
Now I see. Thanks!
Is that really a good deal? I've seen £33 on av forums for the same in the last few days!

jcm193 25-11-2014 12:26
Re: Virgin Media to raise broadband and phone prices in Feb 2015
 
We only have 152 meg broadband and the telephone on M we have been hit with a 7.5% price increase ridiculous

jobbie8 25-11-2014 12:55
Re: Virgin Media to raise broadband and phone prices in Feb 2015
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by cj136uk (Post 35743096)
Now I see. Thanks!
Is that really a good deal? I've seen £33 on av forums for the same in the last few days!
My increase is £4.50

I got a call back from retentions after thinking about it and took up the offer of

My NEW deal is:

Big Kahuna:
152Mb
XL TV
XL Phone Plan

3 Tivo's
SuperHub 2ac
Free Netfilx for 6 months
Caller ID
Anonymous Caller Rejection

Total £69

That's with £140 Line Rental Saver paid. (£4 off)

I currently pay £75
with 50Mb
and Line Rental Saver at £120 (expired yesterday)

Signed up for another year

BeeVee 25-11-2014 16:10
Re: Virgin Media to raise broadband and phone prices in Feb 2015
 
My increase is £4.89

VIP package.
No TIVO, got the V+HD and an old non HD box in another room, line rental saver, caller ID. Normal bill is £109.26 a month. No loyalty discount, never had one.

jobbie8 25-11-2014 16:19
My Grandad's bill is going up £1.35

He has M+ TV and M phone.
So M+ is going up 3rd for him

Helix 25-11-2014 17:26
Re: Virgin Media to raise broadband and phone prices in Feb 2015
 
I rung up and they would give me a loyalty discount on my Big Kahuna bundle saving me 50p over what I am paying now. However I decided to just go down to broadband and get Now TV.

If they had just reduced my package by 50p upfront, without me having to go through Retentions. I would probably never have thought of cancelling my other services.

jobbie8 25-11-2014 20:00
Quote:
Originally Posted by jobbie8:35743134
My Grandad's bill is going up £1.35

He has M+ TV and M phone.
So M+ is going up 3rd for him
M+ going up 35p (stoopid auto correct)

johnathome 25-11-2014 22:06
Re: Virgin Media to raise broadband and phone prices in Feb 2015
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by cj136uk (Post 35742980)
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!
Just for completeness sake could you list what channels aren't on TV M that are on Freeview?

I've looked at the VM site but i think all i'm seeing is TV M+ which looks the same.

passingbat 25-11-2014 22:47
Re: Virgin Media to raise broadband and phone prices in Feb 2015
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by johnathome (Post 35743203)
Just for completeness sake could you list what channels aren't on TV M that are on Freeview?

I've looked at the VM site but i think all i'm seeing is TV M+ which looks the same.
I've never bothered to see what's missing on TV M compared to Freeview, but one channel that TV M has, that I believe Freeview still doesn't have, is 5 HD.

---------- Post added at 23:47 ---------- Previous post was at 23:39 ----------

This pack includes TV M

http://store.virginmedia.com/big-bundles/big-easy.html


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