6.7% Price Increase From February!

[richard s]

Originally Posted by yorkshireborn

come February I think ill keep the tinternet but drop it to the lowest speed dump the phone and tv go with freesat.

DITTO.... Me thinks the same!

[howardmicks]

Originally Posted by richard s

DITTO.... Me thinks the same!

Need to be cancelling when get letter not feb,one of my mates at work as cancelled is tv services today and as just got a half price deal for 12 months off sky just keeping broadband and phone with vm and is saving £40 per month

[mcilwraith]

Is the 6.7% increase on the WHOLE bill, or just on the broadband?

I am very happy with TV (M), Phone (L) and BB (30Mb) for £27/month. And my BB will be upgraded to 50Mb next year. Amazing!

Also 6.7% of £27 is only £1.80.

[jfman]

It'll be interesting to see what the rises are but with BT increasing line rental (obviously nothing to do with acquiring football rights ) naturally Sky (who are in for te same sports rights) and the rest of the market will follow upwards.

We don't have genuine competition we have ogliopoly.

The advantage for Virgin as this revenue could be used to try and keep BTS in XL or subsidise it to some degree. Regardless of how BTs pricing strategy goes, it's better for them to have subscribers via VM (less likely to have Sky Sports and/or to reduce Sky DTH market share in VM areas) leaving BT a clean run at Sky outside the VM network driven by their own profits and fixed VM revenues.

[MUD_Wizard]

Originally Posted by Maggy J

Actually free view is crap. I'm currently watching it and the choice is lousy. Not a patch on the VM xl TV package.

I had a freeview box for a while when it started but it was sitting gathering dust so I gave it to a mate ages ago. I just download or stream TV anyway, so who needs a Tivo. I really can't understand why I ever watched fixed channels, except of course at the time I had no other choice. Once you have a choice of watching whatever you want whenever you want without waiting it's obvious.

[paultrademark]

Mine is going up £5.75 and my package bundle cost is £64.49 so thats more than 6.7%.

[deehand]

Originally Posted by paultrademark

Mine is going up £5.75 and my package bundle cost is £64.49 so thats more than 6.7%.

Today I received a letter showing the same increase (i.e. £5.75). As my monthly package for internet, TV and phone totals £65.35/month this price increase calculates out at 8.8% over all three services.

[PsyCrow]

My letter also said £5.75 for my £68.99 bill (8.3%). I was on VIP in the past but the constant price increases meant I downgraded, I think I might need to look at removing stuff again.

[TAZMANUK]

Ill be cancelling the 08 phone add on at 2 quid and may downgrade my 120 bb to 60 save on that but get same speed when boost kicks in

[want to know]

I totally agree . the market for pay tv will crash big time if the price keeps going up and up . people will not keep paying for more repeats . I know free sat / free view don't have lots of channels but it will do for me anyway .

[howardmicks]

Still awaiting letter,soon as it does cancelling tv services just keep broadband and phone line.sky for TV services for me

[freakgirl]

Probably end up cancelling phone line, rarely use it anyway

[RobboEdin]

Originally Posted by freakgirl

Probably end up cancelling phone line, rarely use it anyway

Don't expect that to save you much if anything.

[Wild Oscar]

Lot's of talk re. cancelling TV services and keeping BB/phone, surely if you do this you will lose your bundle discounts? .. unless retentions get round that somehow?

[jfman]

Originally Posted by Wild Oscar

Lot's of talk re. cancelling TV services and keeping BB/phone, surely if you do this you will lose your bundle discounts? .. unless retentions get round that somehow?

You will partially, but TV is so highly priced that Sky's regular 50% off deals will be a better deal especially for those not bothered about BT Sports.