SD : TV price rises

[New to cable]

Originally Posted by denphone

TV XL package to go up by £2 in April so what are your thoughts on it?.

http://shop.virginmedia.com/digital-...-packages.html

Is that £2 increase on XL aswell as the TiVo increase going up to £5? Also is the TiVo £5 fee per box?

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by paultrademark

10mb is going up to 30mb that is on the VM website

Where?

[m419]

Originally Posted by Alan Fry

If they do sell Virgin Mobile UK, will they have to change their name from Virgin Media to British Cable (Branson only allowed NTL:Telewest to use the Virgin name after they agreed to buy Virgin Mobile UK off him!

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I hope VM will improve it service after the price rise!

No they won't!

Simple fact is, Virgin Media pay a huge fee for the Virgin name and Richard Branson is one of the largest shareholders of the company, so there would be no need to get rid of the name.

Virgin.net which has been owned by NTL since 1996 and wholly owned by NTL since 2003 has been using the Virgin name and therefore cannot see what the problem would be.

Anyway if Virgin Media was to stop using the Virgin name, it will most likely go back to NTL,Telewest or even NTL Telewest.

To be honest I think a large company should take over the whole lot, a company with more money behind them to make it easier to compete with Sky.

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Originally Posted by BenMcr

Where?

It depends what deal you have, I was on 10mb and through retentions they increased my speed to 20mb for an extra £1.50, I since received that advertisement about speeds doubling and it says 'We will be doing more than just doubling your speed' and it says my speed will go up to 60mb.

If you're one of them 10mb customers who have broadband as a stand alone product and are on a special discount anyway or just have 2 services with a discount, I wouldn't expect much.

[Alan Fry]

Originally Posted by m419

No they won't!

Simple fact is, Virgin Media pay a huge fee for the Virgin name and Richard Branson is one of the largest shareholders of the company, so there would be no need to get rid of the name.

Virgin.net which has been owned by NTL since 1996 and wholly owned by NTL since 2003 has been using the Virgin name and therefore cannot see what the problem would be.

Anyway if Virgin Media was to stop using the Virgin name, it will most likely go back to NTL,Telewest or even NTL Telewest.

To be honest I think a large company should take over the whole lot, a company with more money behind them to make it easier to compete with Sky.

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It depends what deal you have, I was on 10mb and through retentions they increased my speed to 20mb for an extra £1.50, I since received that advertisement about speeds doubling and it says 'We will be doing more than just doubling your speed' and it says my speed will go up to 60mb.

If you're one of them 10mb customers who have broadband as a stand alone product and are on a special discount anyway or just have 2 services with a discount, I wouldn't expect much.

Do you mean a "large company" in th cable business, that would be Comcast in the USA

Also who do you think would by Virgin Mobile, would the be 3 or Vodaphone?

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by m419

If you're one of them 10mb customers who have broadband as a stand alone product and are on a special discount anyway or just have 2 services with a discount, I wouldn't expect much.

As announced all 10Mbit customers go to 20Mbit

[m419]

Originally Posted by BenMcr

As announced all 10Mbit customers go to 20Mbit

They probably misread it then, because double means double and 10+10 is not 30

[LexDiamond]

Originally Posted by New to cable

Is that £2 increase on XL aswell as the TiVo increase going up to £5? Also is the TiVo £5 fee per box?

It is £5 for new customers only for Tivo.

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by LexDiamond

It is £5 for new customers only for Tivo.

New boxes, not new customers. So if you, as an existing customer, add another TiVo box after the end of Feb, that new box will have a £5 TiVo fee whilst your existing box(es) will keep the £3 fee

[m419]

Originally Posted by Alan Fry

Do you mean a "large company" in th cable business, that would be Comcast in the USA

Also who do you think would by Virgin Mobile, would the be 3 or Vodaphone?

Yes a large cable company like Comcast, there are many cable firms in the USA and Canada.

Possibly Cable and Wireless Worldwide as they have been recently on a spree of buying out large telecoms firms like Thus and Energis. They are always trying to find new ways to compete with larger rivals and to offer businesses complete business telecoms products. They don't seem keen on the residential side of things though after the disaster with Bulldog Broadband.

No carphone warehouse possibly because they own it in France. 3 would not be interested because for a start, many Virgin Mobile customers may be just 2G users and Richard branson will want the new owners to keep the Virgin name and possibly own a share in it just like most Virgin companies. 3 would want to use there own brand.

Vodafone would not be interested either because again they wouldn't want to associate with Virgin not after what happened in Qutar. I don't think they would be allowed to either by the competition commision, possibly Everything Everywhere could take over since they do already have some say in the company.

[Rivva]

Originally Posted by paultrademark

10mb is going up to 30mb that is on the VM website

I don't know about it being on the website but yes it is going up from 10-30MB as mentioned in my post #180.

[m419]

Originally Posted by Rivva

I don't know about it being on the website but yes it is going up from 10-30MB as mentioned in my post #180.

I doubt so, but it would be a good idea on the marketing side

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by Rivva

I don't know about it being on the website but yes it is going up from 10-30MB as mentioned in my post #180.

The retier will be from 10 > 20 because to go to 30Mbit will require a SuperHub

It may be Virgin's plan to offer a further increase from 20 > 30Mbit to those customers, but that hasn't been detailed yet

[m419]

Originally Posted by BenMcr

The retier will be from 10 > 20 because to go to 30Mbit will require a SuperHub

It may be Virgin's plan to offer a further increase from 20 > 30Mbit to those customers, but that hasn't been detailed yet

That's what I had in mind because I know some people who still have the Motorola Surfboard modem and they are still using a USB as well which means there speed won't get very far, i've told them to use a Ethernet cable but they just won't!

[Alan Fry]

Originally Posted by m419

Yes a large cable company like Comcast, there are many cable firms in the USA and Canada.

Possibly Cable and Wireless Worldwide as they have been recently on a spree of buying out large telecoms firms like Thus and Energis. They are always trying to find new ways to compete with larger rivals and to offer businesses complete business telecoms products. They don't seem keen on the residential side of things though after the disaster with Bulldog Broadband.

No carphone warehouse possibly because they own it in France. 3 would not be interested because for a start, many Virgin Mobile customers may be just 2G users and Richard branson will want the new owners to keep the Virgin name and possibly own a share in it just like most Virgin companies. 3 would want to use there own brand.

Vodafone would not be interested either because again they wouldn't want to associate with Virgin not after what happened in Qutar. I don't think they would be allowed to either by the competition commision, possibly Everything Everywhere could take over since they do already have some say in the company.

Cable and Wireless Worldwide is in financial trouble so no, but Comcast, Rogers Communications and Shaw Communications might!

[m419]

Originally Posted by Alan Fry

Cable and Wireless Worldwide is in financial trouble so no, but Comcast, Rogers Communications and Shaw Communications might!

They've always been in trouble, sometimes acquiring something else and moving into a new sector and disposing of what they are doing wrong can sometimes help.