Guys,
I've only recently move to Virgin from Pipex and in the main am happy with the service however the phone charges are disgraceful. I simply cannot believe how high they are.
We rarely use the phone and try and make evening calls but it seems to make no odds, with pipex we'd struggle to make £10 worth of calls each month, now with Virgin it's nearer £25 a month for the same type of calls
. Can anything be done, do they not offer any free calls or friends and family ?
All of a sudden the reasonable TV / Broadband deal is no longer so by their rip off phone call costs.
It is an attempt to move people off the Standard phone tariff(Free weekends plan/M Phone package) and encourage people to move on to Talk Evening and weekends,Talk unlimited and Talk Anywhere.
If you are calling mobiles,0845 and 0870 numbers regularly but not excessively then Talk Anywhere is for you.
For £20 per which is including telephone line rental(£11) Virgin Media can give you 200 minutes of talktime to call UK landlines, UK mobiles,International mobiles and landlines as well as 0845 and 0870 numbers.
If you don't use up your minutes, they roll over to the next month.
So this plan is similar to mobile phone tariffs. So by being on Talk Anywhere 200, it is the equivalent of paying 4p per minute, thats quite good if you are calling mobiles.
So £11 line rental plus Talk Anywhere(£9) means your phone costs including line rental won't be over £20.
0500 and 0800 numbers remain free.
Are any of those prefix numbers worth a Try if Virgin themselves won't reduce the costs ?
tia,
MJW