Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III. - Page 259

Rob King · 27-10-2011, 00:53

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Originally Posted by Chad

It could certainly be in that area. At the end of July Virgin had 50,000 estimated installs. Since then the price of TiVo has been slashed, and is now free to new customers.

I'd say 85,000 confirmed installs. What would be more interesting is how many people are still awaiting TiVO to be installed.

I'm looking forward to seeing the majority of the 21,200 customers lost in the last quarter, students cancelling their services for the summer according to Neil Berkett, returning. With all these students coming back, and all the new customers taking advantage of free TiVo this should be a bumper quarter for Virgin in terms of new customers taking TV services. Failing to replace the 21,200 lost customers from last quarter, or even further losses, would not be positive at all.

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That would be great but I can't see if happening. Virgin would need to give away hundreds and thousands of mini hubs to current broadband customers to allow them to access some of the new speeds. Virgin wouldn't do this free of charge. I would expect them to at least charge either their standard Â£30.00 activation fee or installation fee of Â£49.95.

I'll tell you what though, if that is announced tomorrow I'll be chuffed to bits. I'll also eat my hat.

you heard it here first letters going out soon he says

Stephen · 27-10-2011, 00:56

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Originally Posted by Rob King

you heard it here first letters going out soon he says

Not true at all.

HD Boy · 27-10-2011, 00:56

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Originally Posted by Rob King

you heard it here first letters going out soon he says

So you are saying i will get a letter in the future saying i will be upgraded from 30MB to 60 MB for free ? Not true.

spankysmagicpian · 27-10-2011, 01:00

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Chad · 27-10-2011, 01:14

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Originally Posted by HD Boy

You are forgetting there were another 25,000 customers awaiting installation.

Very true. You've got me thinking now. It was 50,000 TiVo installs at the end of July and I guessed 85,000 TiVo installs by the end of this quarter. Based on these figures Virgin over the last 90 days would have been installing 389 TiVo boxes every single day, on average. Now I'm sure Virgin might have the capacity to deliver on these figures but 389 TiVo installs every single day from the last 90 days is pretty intense.

I'm now going for 75,000 to 80,000 TiVo installs.

At least my figures are more realistic than those in this article:

http://broadcastengineering.com/news...502/index.html

"Virgin Media has been able to ramp up TiVo box deployment to 1000 a day, which means it is heading for about 300,000 subscribers by the end of 2011."

spiderplant · 27-10-2011, 08:20

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Originally Posted by Chad

At least my figures are more realistic than those in this article:

Really?

222,000

http://investors.virginmedia.com/Sto...ults-22af.aspx

Tricky Trevor · 27-10-2011, 08:28

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Originally Posted by Rob King

i heard they giving doubling of your broadband for free download and upload included so my friend says

Oh,does this mean I will go from 100mb to 200mb when they have finished the tests?

denphone · 27-10-2011, 09:40

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Originally Posted by spiderplant

Really?

222,000

http://investors.virginmedia.com/Sto...ults-22af.aspx

Impressive indeed.

gadge · 27-10-2011, 09:49

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Originally Posted by spiderplant

Really?

222,000

http://investors.virginmedia.com/Sto...ults-22af.aspx

Impressive

Gavin-D · 27-10-2011, 09:50

The best way to watch TV

In the quarter we started to market and sell our new TiVo service to new customers and since July have been running
our first TiVo TV advertising campaign. The strong early demand for this service has exceeded our high expectations and
by the end of the quarter we had 162,900 TiVo customers, more than four times the number of customers with which we
entered the quarter.

We are seeing this demand for TiVo from both new and existing customers, with around one third of
all TiVo subscribers being new to Virgin Media. Growth has continued strongly in October, and we had 222,000 TiVo
customers as of 26(th) October.

denphone · 27-10-2011, 09:52

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Originally Posted by Gavin-D

Strong TiVo growth in the quarter; 162,900 TiVo customers at quarter-end 127,200 net adds, around one third of which are new to Virgin Media 222,000 TiVo customers as at 26(th) October Rate of consumer demand for better connectivity accelerating.

As the advert goes Sky will be shaking in its boots.

Stephen · 27-10-2011, 09:54

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Originally Posted by Tricky Trevor

Oh,does this mean I will go from 100mb to 200mb when they have finished the tests?

No, it will not happen.

gadge · 27-10-2011, 09:54

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Originally Posted by denphone

As the advert goes Sky will be shaking in its boots.

Lol wonder what ole Jeremys thinking now.

windy · 27-10-2011, 10:55

I know this is not the place to say this and might get deleted but .....

Sky anytime is so much faster now and the movies have been split up into there own cats ie action,drama etc..

Well done virgin and thanks for listening.

denphone · 27-10-2011, 11:08

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Originally Posted by gadge

Lol wonder what ole Jeremys thinking now.

l suspect he will keep opening his mouth because he does have a habit of shouting off.