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Originally Posted by BenMcr
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This is quite interesting as the gulf in prices has now doubled as the VIP now comes in at £107.15 (as per Ben's post) and Sky World with Phone, BB (ADSL) and a multiroom box will be £100.75 from 1st Sep.
Therefore that's approximately 6% higher with VM albeit getting faster fibre optic BB with VM but more channels & HD content with Sky. Previous to the price rise it would have been £103.90 for VIP which would have been 3% higher.
It really does make you wonder where VM's price rises come from as for Sky customers, Sky Sports Collection is going up by £1 (approx 5% increase) compared to VM customers going up by £3.25 (approx 14% increase).
So Sky customers will, at most, get a £2.50 increase this year whereas we've had an April increase, this Oct increase and no doubt a line rental increase later this autumn/winter meaning rises of £5+ for many VM customers.
Now I am only writing this as a comparison because it's interesting to compare. I am very happy with my VM services and have no real wish to switch to Sky although with the current economic climate, many customers on the VIP package who could make do with an average ADSL BB service may consider the switch to save £6.40 per month and get more channels & HD content.
My main thought in all this is that I believe that VM ought to consider moving to a model with one annual price rise and, if necessary, align this with Sky if they need to incorporate any fee increases in the Sky channels. This would make it much better and give greater clarity to customers as although the annual price rise maybe a little steep, it would not be the current (somewhat stealth method) of doing a larger increase in 3 smaller increments!!
Anyway, we may all be happy soon if Media Boy's reports of a number of new channel launches comes true as we may finally get some of the ones we've all been waiting for!
Superblade7