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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
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A lot of shares have dropped somewhat from their peak. Nothing to do with the companies, more bubble-icious stock market.
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Sky shares up 10-15% over the same period
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I think your all missing the point regarding line rental. VM use to do broadband and TV at £20 per month. that got scrapped and now BB and TV is more expensive than taking a triple....the question is why? and the answer can also probably explain why BB solo has gone up from £20 per month to now a staggering £30.50 a month in just under 3 years. Virgin want to announce to the stock market 'quad play customers' so they've priced their products to 'encourage' customers to take triples. Its nothing to do with marketing or what the customer wants.....its all about what they want to announce to the share holders.......Lord Simpson - Marconi spring to mind and the error of jumping on a band wagon. The band wagon being 'quad play'
The other issue is VM thinks everyone wants 200mb broadband hence the high prices, and that's VM new product...... faster broadband how exciting. The reality is only a small proportion of customers want 200mb broadband, and I think you'll find that probably more than half would be more than happy with the 50MB connection........but guess what share holders don't want to here that either, so bundles are loaded so subscribers have to take XXL broadband.