Casual mobile connection to Broadband
 

Now that Virgin has taken over NTL, are there any chances of using the Virgin mobile phone system to link a laptop to NTL/Virgin broadband. From time to time I am stuck out in the wilds, no wi-fi possibilities. Ordinary pay as you go mobile could prove highly expensive for internet use. A setup perhaps with Virgin PAYG mobile would prove very useful.
Ordinary WI-Fi can obviously present problems, when the latter is within range. There have been a couple of arrests for what is called, 'WI-FI theft.
Contact direct with Virgin Media is prevented, due to no update for ntl customer like me not havin as yet been brought upto date.

Re: Casual mobile connection to Broadband
 

It would still be expensive even if it could be introduced into a package. Why do you say direct contact with VM is prevented?
VM Contact info

Re: Casual mobile connection to Broadband
 

According to al the gumph on their web page. My NTL password etc is not accepted for VM. I have two choices. 1. Use ordinary email to customer services ntl or 2. Wait until VM catch up with providing latest info to old members.

Thanks for your reply.

Re: Casual mobile connection to Broadband
 

So when you click this you have to use your password and user name?

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"Now that Virgin has taken over NTL, are there any chances of using the Virgin mobile phone system to link a laptop to NTL/Virgin broadband. From time to time I am stuck out in the wilds, no wi-fi possibilities. Ordinary pay as you go mobile could prove highly expensive for internet use. A setup perhaps with Virgin PAYG mobile would prove very useful."

T-mobile do a webnwalk plus package for £10 a month ontop of your monthly price plan. The phone I have allows me to connect to laptop and fairly easy to set up. You can get good speeds depending on where you are. I get about 81 Kbs in the house and about 200Kbs outside but you can get broadband speeds if you have the right equipment. I think its great as back up and lovely to pop down to the local caff for breakky and a surf. Free at last from the desk top. ;) Oh by the way there is a download limit of 3Gb a month which I think is ample for ocassional use. Not sure but doesn't Virgin Mobile use or rent the T-Mobile system anyway ?

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Think they piggyback on it.

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Keerect - Virgin are a MVNO - 'Mobile Virtual Network Operator'. Virgin have never really been much for mobile data, either GPRS or 3G. Possible reasons include:

1)Doesn't fit with target market. VMobile always stated they were after the hip young gunslinger and data doesn't *really* fit in here.
2)The cost to Virgin for data from T-Mobile is prohibitively high in the agreement - high enough to prevent Virgin from offering decent data tarrifs. Chances of this getting re-negotiated, considering the spat they had with T-Mobile over charges a couple of years back - naff all.

So in all honesty, no. :(

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The same happened to me, for some reason they decided to use another of my NTL e-mail accounts as the account holder - my wife's account. Think I found this by going on to webmail to manage accounts, saw that not all the household accounts were listed under my main account - went from there. HTH

Re: Casual mobile connection to Broadband
 

Thanks for all the replies. Looks as though I will be staying put.

Answer to Paul's question. Any attempt to communicate with VM/NTL using their webpage facility fails , as my ntl details are not as per VM. Ordinary email is the last resort. Customer services @ntl world .com This translates as. http\\. www.ntl.co/home/contact/customer services/default.asp?
As I say I'ff forget about it and stay as I am.