Virgin putting up price of calls

[kandinsky]

Got this with my bill,

Important information

From 1st October 2015, the rate you pay for calls to 01, 02 and 03 numbers will go up by less than 1p (£0.0075) per minute.

This change won’t affect the calls included in your talk plan or calls to service numbers.
To find out more about call rates, visit

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[arcimedes]

Does anyone actually pay for normal calls now? The only time I get clobbered with call charges is when my wife insists on having a call last for longer than 60 minutes (I think there should be a warning when you are approaching the 60 mins).

[kandinsky]

I only use the phone at the weekend. Rest of the time I use my mobile.

Just thought I would put it out there as some people dont look at their bills very closely.

[1andrew1]

Reminder at a time of zero inflation and falling technology costs of where your price rises are being spent. http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/sep/10/fee-anthony-martial-ridiculous-louis-van-gaal

[Ignitionnet]

If people continue to pay up the prices will continue to go up.

[denphone]

The trouble for me is l have to have a landline phone as the information gets sent down the phone regularly to the hospital so l have no choice but to pay it.

[1andrew1]

An interesting article on why this is happening. Official answer from the telecoms companies is that fewer calls are being made on landlines so they need to recoup their charges from the line rental instead.
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/sep/19/why-british-paying-more-than-europe-broadband

[Osem]

Hmmm I wondered why I've just received a VM promotional leaflet telling me what a good deal I'm getting and how much money they reckon I've saved...

[Gavin78]

Thing is VM charge more for not having a landline. clearly the £16.99 a month line rental isn't going towards what it should be and just being fed back into VM pockets.

Perhaps they should have a better priced package for tv and BB only as most people these days aren't really fussed for a landline

[nashville]

Does anyone actually pay for normal calls now? The only time I get clobbered with call charges is when my wife insists on having a call last for longer than 60 minutes (I think there should be a warning when you are approaching the 60 mins).

That would be a good idea, ;)

[snowey]

That would be a good idea, ;)

Agreed :):)

[nashville]

I agree there too.

[nodrogd]

Thing is VM charge more for not having a landline. clearly the £16.99 a month line rental isn't going towards what it should be and just being fed back into VM pockets.

Perhaps they should have a better priced package for tv and BB only as most people these days aren't really fussed for a landline

Not strictly true. If you go through the bundle builder, in every case standalone BB is cheaper than BB & Landline together. Adding a Landline usually discounts the BB by around £10 a month. Only those on the "Big" bundles would lose out substantialy by dropping the Landline.

[qasdfdsaq]

If you go through the bundle builder, in every case standalone BB is cheaper than BB & Landline together.

Not strictly true. Well maybe it is today but it wasn't in the past. Often you'd get £50-100 discounts on top of the bundle discount for taking a landline, making standalone BB more expensive than BB & landline together.

[djfunkdup]

Yea the bundle builder is incorrect ..

Taking M Phone would make my standalone Vivid200 BB £1.75 a mnth cheaper ..

[John Q]

Can you cancel your contract because of this increase?

[japitts]

Hmmm I wondered why I've just received a VM promotional leaflet telling me what a good deal I'm getting and how much money they reckon I've saved...

Was this the "your value statement" flyer - telling you how great your package was across all 3 services? Including a note of how much data I'd downloaded on broadband.