[RichardCoulter]

I feared price rises happening and things may get worse.

I have already made these points elsewhere, but feel that they are relevant to this thread too.

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) are trying to sue VM to obtain a significant amount of extra money for some former VM staff who were made redundant. All staff have received their redundancy payments and, following help from VM, all staff who wanted alternative employment secured new positions relatively quickly.

My point to them was that, if the CWU win the case, there simply isn't a pot of spare money for these extra payments. Virgin Media is heavily in debt and services would be affected and/or prices would increase with subscribers seeing nothing for it. This would see disgruntled customers leave VM and the downward spiral would continue, leading to even more staff losing their jobs.

When somebody from the CWU was asked how he felt about the effect that this could have on customers and former colleagues, he openly stated that he did not care.

Maybe VM are using these price increases to build up a slush fund in case they lose the case?

Maybe that's why no new decent channels have been forthcoming?

One thing that is for sure, is that any victory by the CWU will not be paid for by VM, but it's customers and/or remaining staff.