Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
03-02-2012, 10:16
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Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
The London server tests are said to be more reliable than the Manchester server
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03-02-2012, 20:04
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Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
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Originally Posted by Maggy J
You still aren't being charged to be upgraded so by anyone's definition it FREE.
I'd hate to think what your definition of free might be.
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Originally Posted by Maggy J
I dunno.VM gives us summat for nothing yet again and so many bitch about it instead of saying thank you very much. 
It is more than many other companies would offer without charging.
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Originally Posted by Peter_
So they are doubling your broadband speed at no extra cost and you do not believe you are getting it for nothing, the mind boggles.
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Originally Posted by jb66
Its free
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Ahem, price rises announced today folks. Still think the upgrades are free?
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03-02-2012, 20:08
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Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
You actually believe that the price rises wouldn't have happened if the upgrades didn't go ahead
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03-02-2012, 20:47
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Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
Well, vm want to force migrate everyone onto tivo, so prices were going to rise, its just now there's larger price hikes because of the "free" upgrades.
Nothing is free, not even death.
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03-02-2012, 20:57
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Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
Where is it stated that VM will replace everyones V box with Tivo??
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03-02-2012, 21:23
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Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
When vm signed the deal with tivo, they said their whole network would go onto the tivo platform and everyone would need a box that is capabale of running the tivo epg. Hence why we have huge price rises coming to pay for "free" broadband upgrades and to pay "activation" fees to migrate onto tivo.
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03-02-2012, 22:36
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Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
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Originally Posted by Horizon
Ahem, price rises announced today folks. Still think the upgrades are free?
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Yes.
The prices would have gone up anyway, just like they always do.
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04-02-2012, 05:44
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Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
Fuel prices at the petrol stations go up more frequently and at a higher rate - but I don't see people making such a fuss about that!
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04-02-2012, 07:47
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Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
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Originally Posted by Horizon
When vm signed the deal with tivo, they said their whole network would go onto the tivo platform and everyone would need a box that is capabale of running the tivo epg. Hence why we have huge price rises coming to pay for "free" broadband upgrades and to pay "activation" fees to migrate onto tivo.
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You can always go elsewhere if you do not want to pay the small increase in price which actually has not doubled the price, you do have that option open to you, BT would welcome you with open pockets. 
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04-02-2012, 07:54
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Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
Once BT roll out FTTC and a youview box i'll switch to BT or Sky as they will have their youview competitor iptv box. Could save quite a lot of cash I reckon and i wouldn't be on 5mb after downloading a few gig 
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04-02-2012, 08:21
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Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
I got an email earlier this week saying my bill would go down by £5.75 from 1st April, I'm on 100Mb.
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06-02-2012, 13:34
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Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
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Originally Posted by Parlyboy
I got an email earlier this week saying my bill would go down by £5.75 from 1st April, I'm on 100Mb.
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That's because the 100Mb price has been reduced to the price of 50Mb but by more than £5.75 it's just your tv/phone etc have raised it again
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06-02-2012, 15:46
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Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
I'm on 50mb and have had the letter about going up to 100mb and then 120mb once it is available,
our area can already handle 100mb already so does that mean the first part will get done quite quick as it's surely just a case of enabling my account to be 100mb because i already have the hardware to handle it.
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06-02-2012, 15:55
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Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
It's not that simple, as it's down to making sure there is enough capacity to support everyone moving up a speed as well as whether the area can technically do the speed
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