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Old 25-08-2008, 16:38   #21
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Re: Virgin 50Mb Boltband
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Originally Posted by SteevieNiteHeat View Post
Seriously, there is advertising, then there is taking the complete micky mouse!

They could have saved £20m by NOT using that blonde bint Uma Thurman to head the new virgin media brand, and probably save an extra £40M at least with Samuel L Jackson and Ruby Wax.
I am all for advertising, but NOT by paying these famous people and having to pay such large amounts!
They could, and the resulting 60 million saved would have payed for upgrading one or two areas (and making the service nicer for a few thousand people), or (and this is more likely) payed some of the interest on their billions of pounds of loans.

However, the adverts could well have generated a lot more than £60 million worth of extra business, or they could have gone a long way to preventing the 10s of thousands of people who Sky seemed to be expecting to leave, leave.

Either way, they could have helped Virgin a lot more than just using the money elsewhere.
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