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I am still trying to work out just what in the name of all that is holy the point of this email is, I have after some consideration decided that it's an e-peen waving exercise after earlier BT announcements.

Wooo. Hi Sir Richard.

Indeed just don't download a good quality movie on anything apart from 50Mbit as you'll break the FUP. I can do nothing I couldn't a couple of years ago.


Indeed we do, shame no-one really offers it. I am getting the idea of what's going on here now though. Put it away Virgin, put it away. I'm a customer I don't need this garbage thrown at me.

I have to say it's very confusing looking fibre. Staring at the piece of metal I should be going blind from the light but I appear to be staring at coaxial cable.

Stop with the fibre optic nonsense. I regard broadband as being fibre optic when the glass is coming through my wall. I strongly suggest Virgin google hybrid fibre coaxial.

I appear to be on an HFC network, and as the 20Mbit upgrade came with STM because the network couldn't support it on the old terms I won't cheer. Indeed who knows what speeds, probably 100 / 3 is next on the list.

Apart from the minor issues of sharing bandwidth and that the silicon in the modems permits only 4 downstream channels.

*Snore* Subject to FUP and free Internet security subject to being a masochist as it sucks.

Yeah right, nothing at all to do with BT advertising a similar service on TV. I'm sure people were clamouring for this. I'm looking forward to spending hours trying to upload stuff to said service and getting upstream STM'd.

A high quality photo is 3MB. I had a wedding album of 600MB along with a further 400MB of video - this took HOURS to upload to web space on 20Mbit. People on lower tiers will take even longer they'll get STM'd part way through.

The ability to be able to share the photos, video clips, and to back up my files without needing to hog the bandwidth for hours on end and totally ruining the connection would be good. Some investment in upstream would be great it's a joke offering 1.75Mbit on the 'premium' product and 768k on 20Mbit while O2's standard speed is 1.3Mbit and they go up to 2.5.

If I get skin cancer from all the sunshine blown up my backside I will sue!

No they aren't, more of the same. When BT do something Virgin will copy, when it comes to speed Virgin will keep a bit ahead, meanwhile merrily advertising a throttled unlimited service.

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I loved reading that, I take it you replied with the same responses then?

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I'm just surprised that Virgin actually have a reasonably up to date e-mail contact list ;)

If they had tried to send something like that when was ntl the servers probably would have crashed with amount of 'undeliverable' returns

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You mean Richard has sent it to other people and not just me?

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Yes - response went to newsgroup virginmedia.feedback.

---------- Post added at 23:18 ---------- Previous post was at 23:17 ----------

I'm afraid so.

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t is all about what is in this link below

http://www.virginmedia.com/broadbandextras/faq/

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So why couldn't they just say that instead of waving the fibre optic wanger in front of me for several paragraphs?

The snidey comment about fibre optics and the government was entertaining too, not entirely accurate and totally pointless for advertising the new extras pack.

Then there's that the most asymmetrical ISP in the country is wittering on about uploading of content both for backup and sharing.

Kinda hard not to reply ironically.

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I'd replace the G in "wanger" with something 4 letters further along the alphabet Broadbandings. ;)

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You must have met the bloke who really wrote that email then.

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PMSL! That's made my night that has. Cheers for the giggle! I nearly spat hot chocolate over my laptop!!!!!! :rofl:

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Don't they just send the newsletter to everyones default VM/NTLWORLD/BLUEYONDER address?

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Nope, because I signed up with a Yahoo address. And nothing's dropped in there yet. ;)

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That's the problem though - I would say more people don't know/don't use the default e-mail than do.

Probably more on the ntl side though

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I didnt get that, but i did get one claiming to be from Microsoft saying i won money in Microsofts Lottery lol

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Meaningless announcements sometimes seem to be a core component of the Virgin brand. At least he didn't abseil off you into a waiting speedboat, eh?

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Honestly i'm waiting for the file storage/sharing service.

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Don't take this the wrong way. I too am fully aware that the fibre doesn't come to my house. However, as I've mentioned to you before, I believe the point is that they use enough fibre and far enough out to the customer to mean that physical cabling is not a speed limiting issued for Virgin at any of their current product levels.

This in my opinion is a huge advantage over ADSL and I think it is fair that Virgin should use this fact in their marketing. I think that since it is mainly due to the fact that they have fibre going further to the customer that they have this advantage justifies their focus on fibre in their adverts.

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That would have been far more interesting.

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I read that email and was thoroughly disappointed.

I thought we were all going to get bumped up a speed for free, but no. It's going to offer external backup.

Big woop.

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Hey Broadbandings, guess what just dropped into my Yahoo inbox? :)

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A turd?

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One amounting to one, yes. ;)

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I should have been more specific: bovine excreta?

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There was me thinking I was the only person who got it. I must be well down his Crimbo list as I only got it at 4.30 p.m.

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So eloquant sir! Yes indeed. :D

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OK, I just got the email and it managed to get my back up too. I don't mind the use of fibre being bandied around, but not without any mention of STM or the huge problems a lot of us are having with speed (I hope they didn't email anyone in Sheffield!).

The real reason for this post is that as far as I was aware, NTL bought Virgin Mobile and part of the deal was to be able to use Virgin branding. Is that not correct? So that means we are fundamentally still dealing with NTL right? So what the heck has Richard Branson got to do with anything? NTL bought Virgin Mobile, Virgin didn't buy NTL. :confused:

Also, has this thread changed title since yesterday??? I spent ages looking for a thread with "Spam" in the title. Maybe I'm just going mad...

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It has indeed changed.

RB acts as a 'figurehead' to Virgin Media, they pay him for the Virgin name and personal appearances.

They sent it to everyone, a guy in an area that is probably the worst in the country where residents are banding together with a view to possible legal action due to their service being so poor was well pleased when he received it ;)

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I have not received this email yet, but with a bit of luck my Spam filter will kill it.

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I received it yesterday and was amused to see that WOT had put red warning icons all over it. Even the link back to Virgin Media was marked with a warning sticker. :D

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Just imagine Richard's smug grin when you read that email, though obviously he didn't write it himself :p

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They did, it recieved a suitably terse response.