[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by smithzert

So the price of £12 is no longer available.

Not unless you are already on BB M

For the third time - when your offer ran out YOU WERE PAYING £12 FOR BB M (+ £11 line rental). The same as everyone else is/will be

Yes this was one of the things that bugged me when I first signed up. Splashed all over the blurb was "no need to pay BT for line rental". It's a shame virgin forget to mention that you are just paying them instead.

No they didn't forget. It's on the adverts, in the contract and on your bill

And still £7.50 more than I was paying for broadband m + phone (£22 - £14.50).

Because that offer was 12 month price only - as it said when you took it out! (The adverts stated BB M for £4.50 a month for 12 months when you take a Virgin phoneline)

And £8 more than I'm paying for broadband s (which is the same speed as I was getting for £14.50 a month).

Because you now don't have a phone line and it is a basic service of course it will be cheaper!

This is just statistics. And confuses me at best. What I want to know is if I have my connection going at full speed for 24 hours, what amount of data can I download. And I want the figure to include the data I can't download because my connection is being choked. Then I want that figure for all the speeds that virgin offer. Kind of like the banks do with AER. Otherwise it's impossible to compare like for like.

On BB S if you download at full speed for 15 Mins between 9am - 9pm you will then get your speed cut by 75% for the next 12 hours. Clear enough for you?

Yes but why is it £50 without the phone and £35 with the phone? My guess (and it is only a guess) is that virgin call charges are high, meaning that what they don't charge in the monthly fee they more than claw back in monthly call charges. Bait and switch is bait and switch no matter how you spin it.

It's called business. All companies will want you to have more than one service with them. It is YOUR choice whether to do so or not