SD : TV price rises

[Chad]

A bit off topic however I'll ask anyway.

How much is the V+ service these days? I mean for existing customers who already have it, but don't have TiVo? Is it £6 per month?

Sorry to ask but my Mum was asking me earlier as she is thinking of changing her TV package. She has TV XL with V+ in the livingroom and a bog standard VBox in my brothers room.

Any info would be great.

[BenMcr]

V+ on M/M+/L is £5 a month

[muppetman11]

Virgin Media increases broadband price

Virgin Media is to up the price of its broadband packages, three months after it said it was doubling its customers' speeds for free.

In early January, the cable giant announced it would double the speed of its broadband service for more than 4 million of its customers. The upgrade, which begins this month, will also see the service's top speed increase from 100Mbps to 120Mbps.

At the time, Virgin Media's chief executive, Neil Berkett, said: "We want to make sure that consumers have access to the best value broadband service and that means a superfast connection."

A spokesman added: "Most customers will not notice the upgrades taking place, nor will any have to pay for the changes to take place."

However, a few weeks on it has emerged that customers will face price rises averaging more than £25 a year.

The company will increase the price of its most popular broadband (large) package by £1 a month. It is also upping some call charges by 12%, and changing the time its free calls kicks in – meaning some customers will be charged for calls that were previously free.

Large Broadband bought as standalone product (without line rental) is increasing in price by £1.50 a month to £22.50. The price changes will come into force on 1 April – with the first letters going out to customers announcing the move this week.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012...redirect=false

[Doz007]

Can we cancel immediately?

[paultrademark]

Originally Posted by Doz007

Can we cancel immediately?

Yeah by giving them 30 days notice.

Spoke to VM tonight about another billing issue (They doubled my £3 TiVo monthly fee but had it resolved now) and confirmed my package is going up by £3.50 a month (£2 for XL TV and £1.50 for XL BB)

[sniper007]

So broadband is going up, phone per minute going up, phone connection fee going up, TV going up, but it's ok because line rental is being froze for now.

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Originally Posted by paultrademark

Yeah by giving them 30 days notice.

Spoke to VM tonight about another billing issue (They doubled my £3 TiVo monthly fee but had it resolved now) and confirmed my package is going up by £3.50 a month (£2 for XL TV and £1.50 for XL BB)

Thanks for info same rise for me I suspect. Can't believe I am going to have to seriusly think about leaving now. I'm also hacked off about the lack of F1 HD let alone now not being able to watch them all in SD anyway without paying for sky sports. I wouldn't mind so much if the customer service was good, they had less outages and that anything less than 50mb was not hideously over subscribed in my area. As it is...fail.

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

Virgin Media increases broadband price



http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012...redirect=false

Don't forget the other bits in the article:

This brings Virgin into line with BT and other rival telecoms companies which had already made the change.

Virgin's move is the latest in a series of price increases pushed through across the telecoms sector. BT, Sky TalkTalk, O2, Vodafone, and Orange have all put charges up in recent months, at a time when most customers have had little or no increase to incomes.

[a01020304]

how much will BB XL (30mb) without phone be ?
i only got my upgrade from 10mb 2 weeks ago, am welll pi**ed off by this now as if it does rise cannot afford it, when i called CS and got the upgrade they never mentioned the prise rise despite me specifically saying i had a strict budget and could not go over a certain amount.
if it does rise will i be able to revert back to 10mb and get my discounts and refund of the activation back.
as there is no way i will want to stay on the 30mb packange if it does rise.

[PeacockAntony]

Originally Posted by Rivva

I've just been on the phone to VM in regards to the price increase this coming April. I wanted to see if I could benefit from making a saving by altering my services in any way. The young man Mathew who I spoke to knew his job inside out and was excellent. He did his best and I was happy at the price of the new/different package he offered me. Also during the same conversation he asked me how I knew about the price increase as it was only released late yesterday. I told him I found out about it on one of the internet forums. He did however finish by saying I don't think that many will know that those who are on (10MB are being increased to 30MB) not 20 as originally advertised because I've only known about it a few hours ago. Now how true that is I don't know but he seemed genuine enough.

Now if this is true it will be great.
One thing I do want to know, as a BB L customer, would I need new hardware as some others do or would me existing equipment work?

[Rivva]

Originally Posted by PeacockAntony

Now if this is true it will be great.
One thing I do want to know, as a BB L customer, would I need new hardware as some others do or would me existing equipment work?

I hope it's true as well PA... 10-30MB sounds good to me too. Like I said though he sounded genuine and honest when telling me. Now regarding the new modem/hardware equipment you're asking about I wouldn't like to say but I'm sure someone on here should be able to let you know.

[PeacockAntony]

It is just that the Superhub will be no good for me. Where my equipment was installed, the connection will not serve the whole house.
The cable comes in the rear of the house, and he would only put a cable in long enough to connect the modem near the wallp-late, and when the router was placed there, I couldn't get a connection at the front of the house, so I have had to buy a long ethernet cable so I can put the router into the kitchen so that the connection serves the whole house.

[howardmicks]

No price rise for me got a email to say my price is going down by £5.75 in april and there upping my bb to 120,just the tonic i needed with what as been a miserable week were vm as been concerned,here's hoping some new hd channels are on the horizen to go with it and the android app for my tivo really missing my tivo commander app

[Alan Fry]

Originally Posted by m419

That is what the cable industry has needed for a very long time is exclusive products,content and wider coverage and availability. If Digital,VoD and if the cable companies created more of there own content back in say 1997 just before Sky launched digital, it would be in front of sky today. But because of the cable companies keep changing ownership and borrowing money, it has put everything on hold, the worst of all NTL, borrowing and borrowing and mass buyouts and not focusing on customer services and product portfolio carefully.

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They should have sold Virgin Mobile and or its UKTV stake not Virgin Media Television, it will be very hard for Virgin Media to ever get back to its content providing

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!

[denphone]

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!

l am sure there is plenty of things in the pipeline.

[paultrademark]

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