Virgin broadband price rise

[tigro]

Got home today from a lovely letter from Mr (I'm a cunt) Branson Apparently my broadband is going up £1.50 per month from 1st October.

Anyone else in the same boat?

FFS if it isnt Sky (Already cancelled) its VM.

[satzzz]

Yup me as well. Think a call to retentions is needed

[tigro]

Same here, although I hate those foreign call centers. Can never get through to someone who understands your situation

[Rick Sanchez]

Mr B does not actually own VM!

[Shotgunjim]

They recently upped the tv/movies price. I hope this was included!!

[WRATH OF BOD]

i just cancelled my house phone, tivo & 150mg BB, now only have 100MB BB from them, saving 70 quid a month, now only paying 35 quid

[tigro]

Did they not offer you any deals Wrath?

[WRATH OF BOD]

Did they not offer you any deals Wrath?

ye but i didnt want any, only need BB now, as plex is our friend + netflix,4od iplayer, the only channels anyone in our house used was nickelodeon & universal. dave & bbc, chan 4 & 5 thats it, the house phone was never plugged in for at least 2 years..paying line rental i didnt need.

[Hangman]

All I need is to find a really decent footy streaming site and I can do the same.

[sonysteve]

download live media player off google play store. search the channel you require, then watch on phone or send to chromecast.

[maltloaf]

£1.50 ? So people are cancelling their packages over around 38p/week increase ?

Am I missing something ?

[supraman54]

i just cancelled my house phone, tivo & 150mg BB, now only have 100MB BB from them, saving 70 quid a month, now only paying 35 quid

Gonna take this route myself in the near future... never watch anything but free view channels and only need broadband.. still a bit of contract time left but they tell you if you cancel the line for instance, your bill will go up!
I have a second Virgin box in the bedroom I've never used!
It's getting near "pull the plug time"..

supe

[darkstar]

download live media player off google play store. search the channel you require, then watch on phone or send to chromecast.

Can you chromcast this from an iPad?

[bub]

Or even better use your feed on a Q5 box for £50

[Bald Bouncer]

£1.50 ? So people are cancelling their packages over around 38p/week increase ?

Am I missing something ?

Probably the VAT takes it to £1.80

[poopooman]

anyone else getting another increase in february £3.84 here and i still cant get btinfinity, adsl here i come

[blacksheep]

They've been slowly bumping mine up every six months over the last 2 years. Called them up the other day asking why I was paying more than new clients and not getting 150mbit when I was told I would get it when available. They tried to charge me for the new router (craphub 2) and yes the whole retentions dance put me back on the same price as new customers and free craphub2. Couldn't be arsed pushing for six months half price or whatever it just gets tiring with being transferred between departments - im sure they rely on this.

[Shotgunjim]

I just got the letter saying £4.50 per month increase. I was going to remove baby TV sub so it works out about even but still....

[Hangman]

Its just business. They need to increase revenue, so the can maintain and increase profits and some of it will be invested back into the business to bring out better services.

The best thing is we know if you ring up they will reduce your price other that don't are subsidising the services more.

Any business will keep doing this until people refuse to pay and go elsewhere, with virgin they provide the fastest consumer broadband so have an advantage over the others like BT etc.

[dpSparhawk]

Its just business. They need to increase revenue, so the can maintain and increase profits and some of it will be invested back into the business to bring out better services.

The best thing is we know if you ring up they will reduce your price other that don't are subsidising the services more.

Any business will keep doing this until people refuse to pay and go elsewhere, with virgin they provide the fastest consumer broadband so have an advantage over the others like BT etc.

QFT