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Originally Posted by mikcoles
I am certainly cosidering dropping services to cut costs. Can anyone tell I have xl tv with hd sports 20m broadband and xl landline, would I be able to drop landline completely as never use it to warrant it and also have virgin mobile contract. Also drop movies and keep sky sports hopefully this would reduce my costs.
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As long as you are not in an existing contract you should have no problems. What your thinking about doing sounds exactly like what I done earlier today. The land-line was a real biggie. Whilst taking a land-line does reduce the overall cost of your package, It's a bit of a rip off if you step back and look at it. Your paying £13.90 line rental, before you've even made a call. I was spending on average £20.00 per month on phone calls so in reality my home phone was costing me between £30 and £35 each and every month. I cancelled my land-line today and took a contract out with Virgin for a Blackberry mobile with 200 minutes each month plus 3000 minutes to other Virgin mobiles. My wife, brother, mother and father-in-law all have Virgin mobiles so it makes sense.
There certainly is value in double checking your package and accessing whether you really need what you're paying for. I dropped SKY Movies too today as since Christmas I think I've only watched about 6 or 7 films. After cancelling SKY Movies SKY HD at £7.00 per month was no longer value. I wasn't prepared to pay £7.00 for SKY Sports 1 & 2 in HD.
I'm surprised at how many people will pay for services they don't use. How many people have XL TV but the core channels they watch time and time again are equatable to the M+ or L package? My Mum has TV XL but doesn't give a flying fig about HD, ESPN, FX etc... My Mum should really just have M+ in terms of the programmes she likes. Essentially people are paying for channels they don't watch or don't need. It's the same as broadband too. It'll also be amazing how many people will have 50mb or 100mb broadband but don't even need the bandwidth or only use the internet at home for a couple of hours a day. 10mb or 30mb would probably be enough for most households to get bye on.