Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed

[Kushan]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

This immediately makes me think of Harmony, custom built at phenomenal cost, hideously complicated, and replaced by Telewest's off the shelf ICOMS.

ICOMS is easily the best piece of software they have.

[Kymmy]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

It displays it at the left hand side for some people. If you look back at some of her previous posts, it says that she is 59. I'm not sure if this a software glitch or something else.

Links to such posts? Also no matter how old the content of the post is the profile details are never part of the stored post data, so all posts by me should currently say 43.

[carbon60]

Originally Posted by virginruinedntl

There are no price differences in tiers, there was just a £30 1-off fee so all 60mb customers will be paying the same as each other just as they do now.

No. There was a reduction to the monthly bundle of £1.50. See:

http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...AQ/td-p/322871 (Points 4 and 5).

[thenry]

weird... I got the sorry error email before I got the 100Mb email

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by Kymmy

You're the only one confused... Age has always been correct (although for some weird reason it does go up by one each year..

Why can't I cancel it? and why would it benefit me to do so?

And the most obvious question why are you asking pathetic questions??

You are incorrect, your age has changed. As previously explained, your age was showing as 59 and is now showing as 43.

It was not a question, I was merely pointing this out and asking if you were aware of this anomoly.

Originally Posted by Kymmy

Links to such posts? Also no matter how old the content of the post is the profile details are never part of the stored post data, so all posts by me should currently say 43.

I would have thought so too. For example, if someone changed their age to appear younger, ALL posts should display the revised age.

Take a look at this randomly selected post that you made last November that I have copy/pasted. Strange isn't it?

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

You are incorrect, your age has changed. As previously explained, your age was showing as 59 and is now showing as 43.

It was not a question, I was merely pointing this out and asking if you were aware of this anomoly.



I would have thought so too. For example, if someone changed their age to appear younger, ALL posts should display the revised age.

Take a look at this randomly selected post that you made last November that I have copy/pasted. Strange isn't it?

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[desi112]

I've checked a few post codes in Leicester and the checker gives different dates for all them. Based on the nearest postcode to me it seems upgrade is due April - July. (I cant use my own postcode as the checker comes up I am not in a cable area..)

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Kymmy

You been to specsavers??? What has Maggy's posts got to do with mine???

Made my day.

[Kushan]

Originally Posted by desi112

I've checked a few post codes in Leicester and the checker gives different dates for all them. Based on the nearest postcode to me it seems upgrade is due April - July. (I cant use my own postcode as the checker comes up I am not in a cable area..)

I'd take the whole thing with a massive pinch of salt. Dates are likely to change and be rearranged as they come across issues they never anticipated.

[Kymmy]

Originally Posted by Sirius

Made my day.

For some reason he seems to think that this post is one of mine

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/35336598-post125.html



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I'd take the whole thing with a massive pinch of salt. Dates are likely to change and be rearranged as they come across issues they never anticipated.

As with any rollout the early dates are likely to be reliable but as you go down the list they either get pushed back or brought forward.. The best policy is that when it's done it's done..

[Horizon]

Originally Posted by Doz007

Why is it that a huge company like VM seems unable to correctly send emails?

Style over substance.

People are getting paid a lot of money to come up with rubbish like the current "tickles" marketing campaign which they clearly feel is perfectly acceptable to send to customers. I wonder if those same people put so much effort into more mundane, boring things like checking one's work.

When the Sky channels were taken off cable, and we got messages like Sky has "thrown the baby out with the bathwater", a phrase I've never heard before, makes absolutely no sense, but you hear all the time now. I knew where things were heading.

VM, like most companies now, concentrate on style, as they believe it to be, rather than substance ie thoroughness and diligence in what you do.

Most companies seem to think their whole customer base is about 21, uses Facebook or Twitter and spends the whole day talking crap on mobile phones (we have forums for that!).

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

So, you're suggesting VM are about book in the region of 100 to 200 thousand or more additional engineer visits to roll out a "free" upgrade - for, as I see it, no reason at all?

That's in the region of a million pounds worth of expenditure, to check people's modems are working and update a config file (both of which can be done remotely at negligable cost). Really?

Nope not saying that at all, and neither are Virgin

Only customers that need network work at their address will get an engineer as part of the uplifts. Everyone else will get kit via Self Install

[Russ]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

You are incorrect, your age has changed. As previously explained, your age was showing as 59 and is now showing as 43.

It was not a question, I was merely pointing this out and asking if you were aware of this anomoly.



I would have thought so too. For example, if someone changed their age to appear younger, ALL posts should display the revised age.

Take a look at this randomly selected post that you made last November that I have copy/pasted. Strange isn't it?

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Get back to the subject at hand immediately.

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by Kymmy

You been to specsavers??? What has Maggy's posts got to do with mine???

That clears up the confusion. My mistake- apologies.

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

It displays it at the left hand side for some people. If you look back at some of her previous posts, it says that she is 59. I'm not sure if this a software glitch or something else.

The only glitch is in your memory. The age in a post is always 'real time'.