Virgin Media Shakes Up Mobile Market
 

-New range of compelling Pay Monthly, SIM Only and PAYG offers
-Free calls from Virgin home phones to Virgin Mobiles
-Exclusive deals and benefits for Virgin Media customers


http://pressoffice.virginmedia.com/p...ews&id=1407072

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Ah yes this got texted to my phone earlier, been meaning to look at it. Yes...I am sad enough to subscribe to VM's tweets

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I'm impressed with this :D

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Quite bizarre really that many PAYG calls on this will be cheaper than on Virgin's landlines!

Still, it's an very good deal, surprised there haven't been more comments on this thread.

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Have you tried the network :td:

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Yes it works fine thanks for asking.

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I was also impressed until I noticed the cost of calls to 08xx numbers on the Simply 8p tariff :(

Regards .....

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I'm not into 0800 numbers ;)

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But they are free call numbers ??

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Oooo maybe I am then. :blush:

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You should ask for a renaming to Press Release Bot :)

I can't say any of this overly excites me.

On the subject of networks that's obviously going to be about where in the country you are. In my part of London T-Mobile sucks and where I work it's not great either. I can't get a 3G signal in either location which isn't hugely impressive.

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They are from a landline but not from a mobile.

Regards .....

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Does anyone know when they are launching the Simply 8p tariff, there is no sign of it on the virginmedia/virginmobile site.

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I am using it on my mobile now. Just call Virgin Media giving your account number and password. They will transfer you to Virgin Mobile who will set you up with the new tariff. Took about 5 minutes at 8.45 this morning.

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Thanks for the advice, did just as you said but as I don't already have a sim card they have sent me one.

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Just tried this, but came unstuck at the Indian call centre.

Managed to get through Virgin Media and was transferred to her colleague in Virgin Mobile, but couldn't understand what the girl was saying due to accent and poor connection.

Have now e-mailed Virgin Mobile to ask how to arrange transfer.

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I know how you feel - you have to stick with it as they do have the information but with it being new they have to hunt for it.

Called Virgin but got switched though to India - the female I spoke to clearly did not have a clue about Simply 8p as she thought I wanted to switch to a Monthly Account and wanted me to set up a direct debit.

It took a while to get though to her that I was intending to keep it as a PAYG account { I don't make enough calls to make it worth my while switching } - she had to go away but she must have found a crib sheet that related to ' Simply 8p Tariff '

She asked me if I wanted a new number - God knows why. - No

Have you not thought of the benefits of a direct debit ? - No there is no benefits for me.

I reckon they don't allow changes to be made online just so they can try to sell you something.

It took nearly ten minuets to make the call but within thirty minuets the switch had been made.

After lots of searching the simply 8 p tariff is listed simply 8 p tariff page

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Something I don't understand about this is the cost of calls to 08xx numbers. It says "Up to 30p per minute". What's with the "Up to" nonsense - have you queried this?

Regards .....

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Numbers in the 08xx range don't all attract the same charge. At opposite ends of that scale you have 0845 (which BT dubbed lo-call when it wanted to disguise the fact that it was no longer a 'local' rate) and 0870 which is usually quoted as being equivalent to a 'national' rate.

Designations like 'local' and 'national' have no technical meaning any more but they are a useful way for phone companies, or rather, the subscriber who has bought access to the number, such as your car insurer or electricity company, to charge more for some calls than others.

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I did spot that but as I use my phone to reach friends I would have no need to use a 08xx number.

All I know was the other day it was 20 pence and its now 8 pence to make a voice call so I am happy.

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As these numbers don't attract the same charge they should be listed individually so that folks know exactly what they're going to be charged prior to making a call.

Regards .....

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Yes, they probably should be. But I expect someone in the marketing department decided it looked untidy.

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Thanks WBC-WORKER

I haven't had a reply to the e-mail I sent yet, but on it I listed the 4 PAYG virgin mobile numbers in our household that I would like to transfer.

After reading your posting I logged into my Virgin Mobile account on-line and sure enough current tariff after each number is now listed as 'Simply 8'.

The phones are not used much, so I don't often log into the Virgin account. Without your info I wouldn't have known the transfer had been made, so thanks again.

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The weird part is I try to give my Virgin broadband/TV cable account number but she said it was not necessary - anyway the switch has been made .

Funny enough I was waiting for my balance to reduce as I was intending to pay the £ 15 to get it unlocked and then I was going to use a ASDA Sim card as I wanted to keep my current phone but now with the reduction its not worth unlocking.

Its just a shame that Virgin don't spell out all their charges but as I tend to only use it in the summer speaking to friends when we are working at festivals I will not lose much sleep.

of course if ASDA had not made such a good offer I doubt Virgin would have made their reductions.

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I would imagine that Tesco's "Lite" offering had something to do with it as well ;)

I still find the Tesco offering to be a better deal than Virgin's and I didn't need to be a Tesco shopping customer to qualify when I signed up for Tesco Lite about six months ago :D

Regards .....

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OOPS sorry for maligning Virgin Mobile. Have just discovered that each mobile has received a text message telling that transfer to Simply 8 has taken place - dated yesterday. So this has been good service.

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Virgin lost me to Tesco Lite a while ago also, partialy due to price, partialy due to the patchy T-Mobile reception in some areas. The 40p per minute mobile to mobile rate on the standard tariff was a real loss leader.