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Originally Posted by djfunkdup
i am trying hard to think of an example of a utility company forcing a customer to take a product they don't need or require so it subsidises the one they actually want lol does that happen in any other business model never mind utilities ?
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It's quite a common thing to lure customers in with a cheap bargain in the hope you can make a good profit off of other items. Supermarkets make a loss of some products knowing you'll make up for it by buying others. Printers are famous for being sold at a loss and having expensive ink. Not exactly the same, but close enough.
I do wonder how much line rental actually costs Virgin. I assume they have to give BT a cut of it? I'm hoping with their VoIP rollout, they can drop the cost of line rental.