[Portly_Giraffe]

Further to my earlier posting I was called again by Virgin Media. Their representative told me that the previous representative who had spoken to me had advised me incorrectly because she had misunderstood the issue. I'm not sure what wasn't clear about:
"I understand with growing concern that you plan to partner with Phorm to use deep packet inspection to monitor your subscribers' web activity, in order to present targeted advertising to them on sites which are also signed up to the Phorm service. This proposal is fundamentally immoral ... ... ... should you deploy Phorm I will move my broadband, television and telephone services to other providers. This is regardless of any "opt in" or "opt out" arrangements which might be agreed – any partnership with Phorm is unacceptable."

According to the representative, Virgin Media is still considering working with Phorm, though the decision is some way off.