New Phone Charges - Dear Me!
Until quite recently I have used a carrier service for calls but it became unreliable so before christmas upgraded to XL phone.
I have never took that much notice of the phone charges but having read a few other posts on DS it has just dawned on me that i'm paying £23 a month for line rental, unlimited landline calls and caller id. That is an absolutely staggering amount by any stretch of the imagination. That must easily be by far the most expensive deal out there. Jeez I haven't been paying enough attention to the phone and too busy comparing TV. |
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That may be the price on its own but dont you haven the service bundled in a package with your TV and Broadband?
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You will probably find that your discount applies to all 3 services, i.e. you cancel your phone and you loose your discount as its a pre-requisite.
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I'm bowled over at how dear it is, the discount is hardly worth anything as the phone is so expensive and no 0845 calls either. Hopefully I can strike a decent deal when the contract is up as i'd prefer to stay with VM but that is seriously expensive. |
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Very pricey! |
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How much are the competition?
Whats your total per month for all three services you have? |
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With caller id and a average amount of 0845 or in my case mostly 0870 calls I reckon I pay VM around £60-£65 a month. It isn't bad but I think the phone is very expensive. Mind you I suppose they could always hike their prices too. |
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Whats the total costs per month for your VM, compare that with the equivilant Sky package?
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I use this site - saves me a fortune
http://www.saynoto0870.com/ |
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£16.25 is the monthly amount for unlimited calls and line rental on a monthly basis. And I have just read the VM line rental is going up again to £13.74 in April. That'll be getting on for around a tenner a month dearer than Sky if you pay upfront which I don't mind doing at all, I suppose that saving would almost pay the HD charge. I have always said it that Sky and VM charge us one way or another, VM's phone service is now ludicrously expensive. Overall as packages they are similar prices but you have to way up what's offered on a whole I suppose. On the other hand I'd really miss catch up though, I could take or leave TVC. Certainly food for thought. http://www.sky.com/shop/broadband-talk/talk-linerental/ |
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We have VM 10meg broadband, XL TV+SkySports and M phone
for £72.24 per month. We would like to reduce the monthly outgoings by: Alternative 1: cancelling our BT unlimited-anytime phone and upgrading to VM phone XL (£8 extra). Then the monthly cost would be £80.24 + cost of 0845 and 0870 calls. OR Alternative 2: cancelling the VM M phone (reduces the monthly Virgin bill by £5 (checked this with Virgin)) and keeping the BT unlimited-anytime subscription which is £15/month if paid 12 months in advance (which we would do) or £18.60 month if not paid in advance. The BT unlimited-anytime plan includes free 0845 and 0870 calls. Monthly cost 67.24+15 = £83.24. Most local councils, job centres, government bodies and banks use 0845 numbers. There is often a long waiting time to get through and there is no way the caller can control that. In our case the monthly phone bill for 0845 and 0870 calls would vary from £5 to £20 per month if paying the VM XL phone rate of 10.22p per minute. For us alternative 2 would work out much cheaper. |
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