The price of your Virgin Media service is going up

Originally Posted by bubblegun

Sky's is still £118.40 for the year.
Although ( tbh I am a cynical sky employee!) it will probably rise in December after the line rental has increased, but I would imagine this will be the same for Virgin!

More info which you may not know:

Did you know that Sky are putting the boxset Library of the anytime+ content inside the premium HD pack at the end of May 2013?

This will surely annoy a lot of Virgin customers with the associated cut in content or increase in content price.

Does that mean sky customers will have to add HD at10 quid to access it as well

[bubblegun]

Originally Posted by Top banana

Does that mean sky customers will have to add HD at10 quid to access it as well

Yes. Just the catchup for free.

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by bubblegun

Yes. Just the catchup for free.

Are you sure about that , I was told Box Sets would be included in the Entertainment + pack , the Entertainment would receive catchup and have access to PPV movies.

[Virgin N00b]

Wow, we've only just had our Virgin services installed a couple of weeks ago.

We switched from Sky/BT Infinity and have 60Mb BB, M+ TV and a phone line, is this increase to affect me as well?

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by Virgin N00b

Wow, we've only just had our Virgin services installed a couple of weeks ago.

We switched from Sky/BT Infinity and have 60Mb BB, M+ TV and a phone line, is this increase to affect me as well?

For those parts of your service that may be on a fixed term offer, they won't see an increase until the offer has ended.

For those parts not on offer, they will increase on 1st Feb 2013

[AdamD]

Great value for money eh? Not when you compare their broadband to the likes of sky or BT.

[carlwaring]

Originally Posted by AdamD

Great value for money eh?

Yes indeed.

Not when you compare their broadband to the likes of sky or BT.

Well BT's LR is also going up, of course

[qasdfdsaq]

Did he say line rental? No. He said broadband.

BT's broadband prices are staying exactly the same. So are Sky's.

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

BT's broadband prices are staying exactly the same.

No they aren't http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/d...5-january-2013

What are the main broadband price changes?

[carlwaring]

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

Did he say line rental? No. He said broadband.

For which you need a land-line; even for their Infinity service. At least, that's what you told me recently.

So to correctly compare the two you have to include a VM landline in any price comparison.

Originally Posted by BenMcr

No they aren't http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/d...5-january-2013

And from that FAQ:

• The standard line rental price increases from £14.60 to £15.45
• The set-up fee price increases from 13.1p to 13.87p
• The daytime pence per minute price increases from 7.95p to 8.41p
• The evening pence per minute price increases from 1.05p to 1.11p
• The Unlimited Anytime Plan increases from £4.90 to £5.15.
• The Unlimited Evening and Weekend Plan increases from £3.15 to £3.30
• We're also increasing the Payment Processing Fee from £1.89 to £2.00.
• We're increasing early termination charges for people who leave before the end of their contract

[thunderlips]

as for vm price increase, i did a compare on sky website it worked out about £15 more expensive and just got off the phone with sky and they still couldnt match in price what services i got with vm even with vm price increse, iam not sticking up for vm or having a go at sky they both have there good and bad points, i know sky got more channels, more hd etc, the point is have a look around at other providers.

[carlwaring]

I too have just done a comparison and, this time, the prices have actually come out very nearly the same.

On the one hand, Sky has more HD channels but a slower broadband speed (only <10mb compared to VM's 30mb) but, of course, VM has Tivo which, for me, is the deal-breaker!

[thunderlips]

agreed !

[carlwaring]

The other point being, of course, that I'm not actually paying the VM price listed; though only around a tenner less; which is a little annoying

[Gary L]

You're paying £10 less, or £10 more?