New Broadband product with Virgin
24-09-2004, 12:26
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New Broadband product with Virgin
Story on El Reg saying the Virgin.Net have jumped into bed with ntl to provide a new broadband service called "Plan Two"
In summary : 512K / no contract / 3Gb cap for £17.99
Full story here : http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09...gin_broadband/
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24-09-2004, 12:50
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Re: New Broadband product with Virgin
NTL already provide virgins dialup & e-mail service so I guess this is just a logical extension.
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24-09-2004, 13:48
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Re: New Broadband product with Virgin
It comes to something when the "virtual" NTL ISPs (Virgin and Tesco) offer a much cheaper product than NTL offer themselves.
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24-09-2004, 14:42
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Re: New Broadband product with Virgin
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Originally Posted by bob_builder
It comes to something when the "virtual" NTL ISPs (Virgin and Tesco) offer a much cheaper product than NTL offer themselves.
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That was my thinking..... 
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24-09-2004, 15:51
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Re: New Broadband product with Virgin
why is it 512k ? shouldn't it be 600k if it's from NTL
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24-09-2004, 15:58
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Re: New Broadband product with Virgin
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Originally Posted by trebor
why is it 512k ? shouldn't it be 600k if it's from NTL
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is it not an adsl service ?????????? 
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24-09-2004, 16:01
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Re: New Broadband product with Virgin
Yes it is, using BT ADSL Option 3 (Datastream)
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24-09-2004, 16:15
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Re: New Broadband product with Virgin
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That was my thinking..... |
virtual companies do not have the expense of network build, maintenance or repairs....
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24-09-2004, 18:31
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Re: New Broadband product with Virgin
Anyone noticed the dodgy timing of this new package? Virgin.net launch a capped cheap 512k service the day after Tiscali confirm their capped cheap 512k services are scrapped due to "lack of demand". Story on the Tiscali thing first appeared on webuser since picked up on by many online IT sites.
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24-09-2004, 21:30
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Re: New Broadband product with Virgin
Virgin do apparently allow you to switch between capped and uncapped ADSL free of charge, which I haven't seen before from an ADSL service. The capped one is 7 quid cheaper per month.
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24-09-2004, 22:28
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Re: New Broadband product with Virgin
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/24/wanadoo_adsl/
For the same price, 1 Mbit and 2Gb cap, instead of 512k and 3Gb ... the Wanadoo option is for the occasional, light broadband user in a hell of a hurry!
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24-09-2004, 22:34
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Re: New Broadband product with Virgin
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Go near Wanadoo at your absolute peril.
You think ntl have 'issues', just try Wanadoo for a while!
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24-09-2004, 23:29
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Re: New Broadband product with Virgin
You really don't wanadoo honest others are still being charged for the service after many attempts to cancel and still after wanadoo has agreed they have canceled..
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26-09-2004, 00:27
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Re: New Broadband product with Virgin
Avoid Wanadoo... Amongst my friends, and various people I have advised, they have generated almost as many complaints as Pipex (and that is saying something).
When they were Frees(w)erve, their favourite trick was to supply crap USB modems with their subscriptions, which frequently cause problems. If you replace the crap USB modem with something Ethernet based, you may find they refuse to support you.
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