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Originally Posted by andy_m
That is actually what Virgin charge for the individual channels, I believe. It's when it comes to pricing of the whole suite that things get a bit murky, but your link suggests there is no regulated price for that?
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I don't think SKY Sports 3, SKY Sports 4 and SKY F1 are price regulated. Of all the providers that do carry all SKY Sports channels, Virgins prices aren't the worst.
1. Talk Talk - £30.00 per month
2. UPC Ireland - £29.00 per month
3. Virgin Media - £25.75 per month
4. Wight Fibre - £22.50 per montj
5. SKY - £21.00 per month
6. Smallworld - £16.00 per month
With prices varying so greatly, I can't see it being SKY who are dictating what providers must charge. There is no way Talk Talk would accept SKY telling them they must charge almost double what Smallworld do. Smallworld must be taking a hit whilst everyone is is turning a profit. With the wholesale price of SKY Sports 1&2 jumping up to £20.78 from September, it will be interesting to see by how much the above prices jump. Wasn't the last wholesale price for SKY Sports 1&2 set at £10.63?
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Originally Posted by denphone
Overall Virgin have always had the better all round package as its nice to have broadband that works smoothly and is quick  and is not the dial up type rubbish speeds   l am experiencing on holiday with my parents at this current moment. |
Each company have their pros and cons. Virgin offer a great all round service, which SKY are close to emulating. I would say that I was happy with my Virgin services until 1 price increase too many last year. Since then Virgin have done a great job adding lots of missing HD channels, and niche SD channels. At the same time SKY have improved their fibre network and on demand service.
As a consumer I thing both offer great all rounds services. I'd be happy to jump back and forth between the 2 companies without feeling like I'm missing out on too much. If Virgin can add BT Sports, add SKY Atlantic, ease up on traffic management and hold prices for 12 months I'd have to say that Virgin would be the overall best service provider in the UK.