Virgin 50Mb Boltband

Virgin are considering calling their 50Mb Broadband Boltband after the world's fastest man, double gold medal-winning Jamaican Olympic sensation Usain Bolt

Check link.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008...ia.virginmedia

[SteevieNiteHeat]

Originally Posted by whydoIneedatech

Virgin are considering calling their 50Mb Broadband Boltband after the world's fastest man, double gold medal-winning Jamaican Olympic sensation Usain Bolt

Check link.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008...ia.virginmedia

Oh My God, whatever will they find to waste money on next?
And I thought that they (virgin) was multi-billions in debt, yet they can always afford to waste money on advertising!

[synner]

Originally Posted by SteevieNiteHeat

Oh My God, whatever will they find to waste money on next?
And I thought that they (virgin) was multi-billions in debt, yet they can always afford to waste money on advertising!

I don't mind them spending on advertising as long as:

1) They spend some of the profits from new connections on the network
2) They don't do it in such an embarrassingly cheesy way

Bri

[SteevieNiteHeat]

Originally Posted by synner

I don't mind them spending on advertising as long as:

1) They spend some of the profits from new connections on the network
2) They don't do it in such an embarrassingly cheesy way

Bri

Haha this will never happen!

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by SteevieNiteHeat

Oh My God, whatever will they find to waste money on next?
And I thought that they (virgin) was multi-billions in debt, yet they can always afford to waste money on advertising!

So how are they then to tell everyone about there 50 meg service if you don't want them to advertise it
????????

[SteevieNiteHeat]

Originally Posted by Sirius

So how are they then to tell everyone about there 50 meg service if you don't want them to advertise it
????????

Seriously, there is advertising, then there is taking the complete micky mouse!

They could have saved £20m by NOT using that blonde bint Uma Thurman to head the new virgin media brand, and probably save an extra £40M at least with Samuel L Jackson and Ruby Wax.
I am all for advertising, but NOT by paying these famous people and having to pay such large amounts!

[BloodyL]

Samuel L Jackson - Oh Yes, I'm tired of these Mofo bottlenecks on this mofo plane.
Uma Thurman - With a better light engineer yes, with the current awful light rigger? hell no, Uma looked like she'd been toking far to many joints the night before.
Ruby Wax....No, just...No. *shudders*

[SteevieNiteHeat]

Originally Posted by BloodyL

Samuel L Jackson - Oh Yes, I'm tired of these Mofo bottlenecks on this mofo plane.
Uma Thurman - With a better light engineer yes, with the current awful light rigger? hell no, Uma looked like she'd been toking far to many joints the night before.
Ruby Wax....No, just...No. *shudders*

That post just put a huge big smile on my face

[frogstamper]

Originally Posted by SteevieNiteHeat

Seriously, there is advertising, then there is taking the complete micky mouse!

They could have saved £20m by NOT using that blonde bint Uma Thurman to head the new virgin media brand, and probably save an extra £40M at least with Samuel L Jackson and Ruby Wax.
I am all for advertising, but NOT by paying these famous people and having to pay such large amounts!

Well said Steevie, of course nobody is saying don't advertise to VM, but a company that is in as much debt as Virgin should be a bit more careful than splashing out tens of millions of pounds on celebrity advertising campaigns.

The sort of person who would be interested in taking out a 50mb connection, would I doubt very much indeed be swayed either way by the appearance of an athlete advertising it, you want the facts of the service, not some "pee and wind" about a runner. You either want it or you don't.

[chickendippers]

The exposure on the Guardian's website...which cost nothing...is in itself a very effective marketing ploy.

P.S. I really liked the Samuel L Jackson adverts; much better than any campaign ntl or Telewest have run in the past.

[Ignitionnet]

This from another forum:

he's lucky he wasn't approached before the olympics to demonstrate Virgin broadband.... he would have been STM'd at 60 metres for using his legs too much and as such would have had to sacrifice one

[SteevieNiteHeat]

Originally Posted by Broadbandings

snip

hahahahahahahahahahahaha

The advert they SHOULD make is Usain Bolt running fast for a quarter of the way, then he morphs into an OAP bearly managing to walk yet alone run!

This at least would be TRUE advertising

[CrowmanUK]

beat me to it stevie, I was gonna post something similar, bet the other isp's could use something just like that to show what its like without stm, the BE "tortoise" running at up to 24meg without stm slowly moving past "the bolt" and hitting the finish line first.

[Welshchris]

I still think they should be spending the money on current network problems instead of doing silly upgrades which are unneccasary yet which will just cause more problems for the network.

[Downloads]

This is exactly why I stopped coming to these forums, the posters on here whine like little girls with so much negativity. People always moaned before, but generally it use to be about their own issues, it ramped up big time when the Virgin/Sky dispute started and never stopped. First time I came back in ages and it looks like I made the right decision to go to talk about TV/Internet stuff elsewhere.