SD : TV price rises

[MaverickJesus]

Originally Posted by herby247

£4.25 for me!

Services =

1TB Tivo, 500GB Tivo.
Talk Unlimited
TVXL
50MB XXL broadband

Inc my £13.90 line rental
My monthly total is £80.46
But i have a £4 loyalty discount.
Total £76.46

So with them adding £4.25 p/month for the increase, that's me now at £80.71 p/month.

Should i call retention's for another deal, or will my discount amend?

I'm getting charged £4.30 extra for Talk E&W, 30MB BB & TV XL.

[G4v1n]

Hmmm, £3.50 price rise for me. Not the 'End of the World' but it's pushing my monthly cost very near to £50 ... which equates to almost £600 per year. That's definitely a level that makes me think that I'm paying too much for TV&Internet relative to what I get.

It's also pretty ill-advised to be pushing your prices up by anything up to 10% when the economy is looking so creaky and your main competitor announced and heavily publicised a price freeze.

Much as I like the convenience of the V+ and the VOD, I think I'll be dropping my telly package totally and dropping down to the Freeview functionality on my TV when my current contract expires.

I'll keep the broadband though as it's been pretty decent and frankly, most of what I watch on TV these days is sourced from the internet anyway and crucially as I live in a rental house that doesn't have a BT landline, I don't want to faff around with paying for installation and committing to a 12 month contract right now.

When I move into my own place, I'll consider VM cable for the broadband but I think it's probably a good bet that I'll go with someone like O2 and get a Freesat PVR. VM's bandwidth throttling policies are a real pain for me even though the speed (when unthrottled) is excellent and I've never had service problems.

[TonyHoyle]

No price rise for me.. at least I've not been notified of one... OTOH it may be possible there is one (never been able to make head nor tail of the VM bill so I doubt I could calculate a price rise if I tried).

As with others thinking of ditching pay TV.. static wages and rising prices are making it a luxury now. They should be offering incentives to stay not increasing the prices.

[jb66]

O2s throttling is worse than virgins

[denphone]

Originally Posted by jb66

O2s throttling is worse than virgins

Exactly.

[Peter_]

Originally Posted by jb66

O2s throttling is worse than virgins

For now.

[Doz007]

Originally Posted by Peter_

For now.

Don't tell us that!

[Peter_]

Originally Posted by Doz007

Don't tell us that!

I said nothing and nor will I.

[jb66]

Are O2 removing throttling

[daggman]

Mines has gone up £4.10 , i have tv XL TIVO, Phone L and broadband XL, plus free multiroom was expecting a £3.50 rise so don't know how they get £4.10, but for me this with the fact on virgin i need skysports to get F1 at 22.50 extra means i will probably cancel phone and tv on monday.

[jb66]

Originally Posted by daggman

Mines has gone up £4.10 , i have tv XL TIVO, Phone L and broadband XL, plus free multiroom was expecting a £3.50 rise so don't know how they get £4.10, but for me this with the fact on virgin i need skysports to get F1 at 22.50 extra means i will probably cancel phone and tv on monday.

It's the same price for XL XL XL

[thegrail]

Originally Posted by jb66

Are O2 removing throttling

There is throttling on O2 but I have not been impacted as I am not using P2P.

According to http://broadband.o2.co.uk/home/trafficmanagement.jsp only P2P is really restricted.

I am on on the O2 Broadband All Rounder package and the only other apparent limitation is when streaming where I seem to have an 8 mbit/sec limit which is easily sufficient for watching HD Youtube or BBC iPlayer. If there were more users in my household I might have to look at "The Works" which apparently has no streaming limit.

I've looked at moving my Phone and Broadband to Virgin but the phone call costs were (on the calls I make) much higher than O2s.

[Ray.uk]

Have VIP30 at £99.45 just received letter saying going up £4.50 so £103.45 can anyone with vip30 confirm this.
Cannot understand why they dont give list of various VIP package prices on their website

[jb66]

vip30 is a rip off, vip50 is much better value

[johnasimmons]

I have XL tv & XXL broadband and mine went up by £4.25 a month