Virgin Media to give FREE broadband speed upgrade to over 1 million homes
08-01-2020, 08:22
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Re: Virgin Media to give FREE broadband speed upgrade to over 1 million homes
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Originally Posted by Angua
In other words the 50mbit customers will get 100mbit at no extra cost, where 100mbit customers get nothing.
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It's non news. The free upgrade to 100mb has been there for over a year for anyone that asked. It's getting like politics presenting the same good news as 'new' several times....
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08-01-2020, 11:55
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Re: Virgin Media to give FREE broadband speed upgrade to over 1 million homes
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Originally Posted by Mr K
It's non news. The free upgrade to 100mb has been there for over a year for anyone that asked. It's getting like politics presenting the same good news as 'new' several times....
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The last time any specific download speed upgrade programme was in place was around 4 years ago.
https://www.virginmedia.com/corporat...r-uk-broadband
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Virgin Media is rewarding its existing broadband customers by offering them the chance to upgrade from existing speeds of (up to) 50Mbps, 100Mbps and 152Mbps to more powerful speeds of 70Mbps, Vivid 150Mbps and Vivid 200Mbps.
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In the last year it has probably been the situation that the triple bundle including 100Mb is around the same cost as a triple bundle including 50Mb was before those stopped so there has been an easy upgrade path between the two, but that's not the same thing.
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08-01-2020, 12:07
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Re: Virgin Media to give FREE broadband speed upgrade to over 1 million homes
We had the 70mbs upgrade and it's been rock solid. 100mbs is as fast as my network router and switches currently support. Since at most there's only two users this is adequately fast. Still a freebee (for now) is always welcome. 
I think this is also about bragging rights when comparing VM to the other ISP's with little cost to VM as those on 50 and 70 don't exploit their BB to the limit or they would have moved to a faster option anyway.
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08-01-2020, 12:49
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Re: Virgin Media to give FREE broadband speed upgrade to over 1 million homes
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08-01-2020, 14:40
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Re: Virgin Media to give FREE broadband speed upgrade to over 1 million homes
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Originally Posted by BenMcr
The last time any specific download speed upgrade programme was in place was around 4 years ago.
https://www.virginmedia.com/corporat...r-uk-broadband
In the last year it has probably been the situation that the triple bundle including 100Mb is around the same cost as a triple bundle including 50Mb was before those stopped so there has been an easy upgrade path between the two, but that's not the same thing. |
As far as I remember there was a 'free 50 to 100mb upgrade' button to press in 'My Virgin Media'.
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09-01-2020, 18:33
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Re: Virgin Media to give FREE broadband speed upgrade to over 1 million homes
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Originally Posted by Kushan
In this instance, I don't think it's the press release that's the issue, the website linked in OP does a terrible job of explaining the uplift. Virgin's actual press release is clear it's 50mbit -> 100mbit.
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T3 is an unmitigated pile of trash. They have a lot of what are probably chatbot generated bumf just there to get some google search results and ad impressions.
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10-01-2020, 01:21
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Re: Virgin Media to give FREE broadband speed upgrade to over 1 million homes
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Originally Posted by Angua
In other words the 50mbit customers will get 100mbit at no extra cost, where 100mbit customers get nothing.
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350 Customers get nothing as well. 
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10-01-2020, 10:58
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Re: Virgin Media to give FREE broadband speed upgrade to over 1 million homes
Whats the price difference between the two prior to the increase?
Will those who were on the 50mb package now be paying less than those on the 100mb whilst on the same speed?
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10-01-2020, 17:31
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Re: Virgin Media to give FREE broadband speed upgrade to over 1 million homes
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Whats the price difference between the two prior to the increase?
Will those who were on the 50mb package now be paying less than those on the 100mb whilst on the same speed?
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Good question
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10-01-2020, 21:44
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Re: Virgin Media to give FREE broadband speed upgrade to over 1 million homes
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Good question
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The answer will be no. Those that are uninformed are ripe to be fleeced ( unless they threaten to cancel )
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01-02-2020, 10:44
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Re: Virgin Media to give FREE broadband speed upgrade to over 1 million homes
So just noticed a banner on my account page saying my speed has had a boost and my package is now shown as M100 instead of M50. Checked the hub and the configuration has indeed changed. I haven't ordered this so presumably it's a "free" upgrade.
How come Virgin are still selling M50 on their site?
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01-02-2020, 19:58
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Re: Virgin Media to give FREE broadband speed upgrade to over 1 million homes
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So just noticed a banner on my account page saying my speed has had a boost and my package is now shown as M100 instead of M50. Checked the hub and the configuration has indeed changed. I haven't ordered this so presumably it's a "free" upgrade.
How come Virgin are still selling M50 on their site?
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Broadband only is still M50 i think.
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01-02-2020, 20:06
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Re: Virgin Media to give FREE broadband speed upgrade to over 1 million homes
@psul: See post #19
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01-02-2020, 21:16
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Re: Virgin Media to give FREE broadband speed upgrade to over 1 million homes
I have broadband only with no other services. Been upgraded to M100 but M50 is still being sold.
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01-02-2020, 22:57
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Re: Virgin Media to give FREE broadband speed upgrade to over 1 million homes
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I have broadband only with no other services. Been upgraded to M100 but M50 is still being sold.
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Well if you were ok with M50, ask for a downgrade and a discount. Worth a try
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