Thread: 6.7% Price Increase From February!
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Old 26-11-2013, 09:37   #91
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Re: 6.7% Price Increase From February!
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Originally Posted by Mr K View Post
6.7% is a lie.

My increase is 10.5%, I've seen others report increases in the range of 8 to 15%.

So how have they come up with this 6.7% figure ? Think I've worked it out - it relates to line rental only, £14.99 to £15.99 is 6.7% ! How many customers just pay line rental ? So saying its an 'average' is an outright lie.

Somebody at VM must think they're very clever. However most of their customers aren't that stupid (well those that can work out percentages anyway...)
I see no evidence that this figure came from Virgin Media.

The figure comes from a BBC source, quoted in the first post in this thread.

It is, I would suggest, the BBC that did the same calculation as yourself and suggested 6.7% as the average increase to be applied across all services.

Happy to blame Virgin Media for what seem excessive increases but, unless you can find a direct Virgin Media source saying average 6.7%, the mis-information has come from the BBC.
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