General : Coming soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 6.

[geordiechris]

If you look at what the cost of 30Mb broadband and M Phone should cost as a package, I'm only saving £6 per month. According to the email confirmation I got my package should have been £29.49 (before the £1 per month increase coming in Feb) but as it is i'm only paying £23.49

[RobboEdin]

Originally Posted by geordiechris

If you look at what the cost of 30Mb broadband and M Phone should cost as a package, I'm only saving £6 per month. According to the email confirmation I got my package should have been £29.49 (before the £1 per month increase coming in Feb) but as it is i'm only paying £23.49

The standard pricing, after the coming price increase, will be £25 per month for standalone BB 30Mb and £31.49 with the landline added.

Anything below these prices, for only one or two services and already little revenue to Virgin Media, should be considered as doing well.

The claim made by nicko that the discount given for adding a landline is around the same as for paying annually in advance is clearly wrong. As I stated above, the extra cost of adding a landline to BB 30Mb is £6.49, considerably less than the £10 per month of annual in advance (goes up to £10.67 after the price increase).

[nicko]

Originally Posted by RobboEdin

the extra cost of adding a landline to BB 30Mb is £6.49, considerably less than the £10 per month of annual in advance (goes up to £10.67 after the price increase).

No it's not, broadband is not charged at £25 if you have a landline, it's charged at something like £16 + phone line £16 = £32 approx. if you then pay phone upfront you can save £6 approx = £26 which is roughly what this fella has been offered to stay with Virgin.

[RobboEdin]

Originally Posted by nicko

No it's not, broadband is not charged at £25 if you have a landline, it's charged at something like £16 + phone line £16 = £32 approx. if you then pay phone upfront you can save £6 approx = £26 which is roughly what this fella has been offered to stay with Virgin.

You're simply not looking at this from a logical point of view!

Arithmetic here in Scotland is a law of nature.

You are paying £25 per month for a BB service.

If you add a landline, the charge becomes £31.49, meaning that the additional charge for the landline is £6.49.

How it may be displayed on the bill is immaterial.

Someone paying £25 for a BB service pays £6.49 extra for the landline and, using the commutative law of arithmetic, would only save £6.49 if they chose to cancel the landline.

To show how your argument is flawed. Would you get the BB for £16 if you cancelled your £16 landline in your example? No.

[nicko]

Originally Posted by RobboEdin

You're simply not looking at this from a logical point of view!

Arithmetic here in Scotland is a law of nature.

You are paying £25 per month for a BB service.

If you add a landline, the charge becomes £31.49, meaning that the additional charge for the landline is £6.49.

How it may be displayed on the bill is immaterial.

Someone paying £25 for a BB service pays £6.49 extra for the landline and, using the commutative law of arithmetic, would only save £6.49 if they chose to cancel the landline.

To show how your argument is flawed. Would you get the BB for £16 if you cancelled your £16 landline in your example? No.

No it's not flawed at all just accountants playing with figures, I said they were giving him the same discount for his loyalty that he could get by paying the line rental upfront (12months) which you disputed.
Just work out the total cost of both packages and see if they are not virtually the same cost.

[andy_m]

Originally Posted by nicko

No it's not flawed at all just accountants playing with figures, I said they were giving him the same discount for his loyalty that he could get by paying the line rental upfront (12months) which you disputed.
Just work out the total cost of both packages and see if they are not virtually the same cost.

Definitely worth pointing this out. As I posted on the Netflix thread, the 6 months free Netflix is actually with less than £36. As you point out, this deal on the landline is actually already achievable by paying it in advance.

Some of the current special offers aren't that special when you break them down. Not saying they aren't worth having, just that people need to be certain they're worthwhile before they recontract.

[nicko]

Originally Posted by RobboEdin

The standard pricing, after the coming price increase, will be £25 per month for standalone BB 30Mb and £31.49 with the landline added.

The claim made by nicko that the discount given for adding a landline is around the same as for paying annually in advance is clearly wrong. As I stated above, the extra cost of adding a landline to BB 30Mb is £6.49, considerably less than the £10 per month of annual in advance (goes up to £10.67 after the price increase).

The first part about the £6.49 is correct the second part is NOT the way that Virgins pricing works, if you pay landline upfront it doesn't cost £35 a month for BB/phone.it works out like this

Total bill £31.49 - 14.95 (phone) + £10 upfront phone = £26.54 which is broadly equivalent cost to the other fellas package with his loyalty discount, with as I said a similar amount of discount.

[OLD BOY]

So what's coming soon, then? Seems we have been a little diverted!

[theone2k10]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

So what's coming soon, then? Seems we have been a little diverted!

Price rises Christmas

New channels only the bbc hd ones are on the Horizon.
BTW there is a cryptic clue in this post

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

So what's coming soon, then? Seems we have been a little diverted!

Didn't you tell us that all the remaining Sky channels are coming? Are you now saying they aren't?

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Originally Posted by theone2k10

Price rises Christmas

New channels only the bbc hd ones are on the Horizon.
BTW there is a cryptic clue in this post

Hope it's not the blasted Horizon box.

[howardmicks]

Originally Posted by passingbat

Didn't you tell us that all the remaining Sky channels are coming? Are you now saying they aren't?

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Hope it's not the blasted Horizon box.

Well if it is and there ditching TiVo that's VMtv gone in my house straight away

[Nelgy]

Originally Posted by theone2k10

Price rises Christmas

New channels only the bbc hd ones are on the Horizon.
BTW there is a cryptic clue in this post

This thread has now lost the plot what happened to coming soon etc ???? It's went from comments of speculation to price increases. I've had enough will now stop visiting forum and check my TiVo box on a tues or Thursday to see if anything has really happened. Few people on here full of their own importance and at best guess what's happening which rarely comes to fruition eg sky Atlantic and remaining sky HD channels. Last post an goodbye

[martin201002]

Originally Posted by passingbat

Didn't you tell us that all the remaining Sky channels are coming? Are you now saying they aren't?

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Hope it's not the blasted Horizon box.

Horizon box looks good.

[pengedragon]

I'm enjoying the discussion about packages etc ( we all want to save money I guess) but maybe it should be separated from actual.coming soon stuff ? Just a thought

[TAZMANUK]

Horizon box looks awful