As you can imagine, with costs such as energy bills rising fast, our running costs are increasing too. So, to make sure we can keep giving you the service you expect, the price of your package may be...
Just received letter regarding the upcoming price increases which is £12 for my package of broadband, landline phone and tv. It’s an increase of approx 23%.
Before I decide whether to haggle for a new price or leave virgin altogether, is this about the norm for price increases as I read somewhere that the increase should be about 13%? Want to get my facts straight before I proceed.
Was just about to post a similar Q, so i'll join this new thread.
Havent received my letter or email yet about any price increase, but already weighing up alternatives after 25 years with VM/Telewest before.
The long and short is that we watch little outside main terrestrial channels and news channels, other than UK Gold, so i've come to the conclusion we dont need VM and a £90/month bill.
Thinking of sorting freeview, our aerial aint great so might need an aerial guy to sort. Will likely subscribe though to Netflix and maybe another streaming platform.
So trying to suss out broadband for my post code which, other than Virgin, aint great to be blunt. 67 mbps fastest in my street (away from VM). Anyone know if 67mbps is good enough to stream netflix, etc via my smart tv?
The big pain with leaving VM is having to change my email address, which is 20+ years used. I do have a google one but i dont really use it for messaging.
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Customers that are impacted by Price Rise will be contacted by letter or email \n ","body@stripHtml({\"truncateLength\":200})":" As you can imagine, with costs such as energy bills rising fast, our running costs are increasing too. So, to make sure we can keep giving you the service you expect, the price of your package may be...","body@stringLength":"481","rawBody":"
As you can imagine, with costs such as energy bills rising fast, our running costs are increasing too. So, to make sure we can keep giving you the service you expect, the price of your package may be going up. If you have been contacted and want to find out more, click below.
Was just about to post a similar Q, so i'll join this new thread.
Havent received my letter or email yet about any price increase, but already weighing up alternatives after 25 years with VM/Telewest before.
The long and short is that we watch little outside main terrestrial channels and news channels, other than UK Gold, so i've come to the conclusion we dont need VM and a £90/month bill.
Thinking of sorting freeview, our aerial aint great so might need an aerial guy to sort. Will likely subscribe though to Netflix and maybe another streaming platform.
So trying to suss out broadband for my post code which, other than Virgin, aint great to be blunt. 67 mbps fastest in my street (away from VM). Anyone know if 67mbps is good enough to stream netflix, etc via my smart tv?
The big pain with leaving VM is having to change my email address, which is 20+ years used. I do have a google one but i dont really use it for messaging.
Any thoughts, guys?
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Was just about to post a similar Q, so i'll join this new thread.
Havent received my letter or email yet about any price increase, but already weighing up alternatives after 25 years with VM/Telewest before.
The long and short is that we watch little outside main terrestrial channels and news channels, other than UK Gold, so i've come to the conclusion we dont need VM and a £90/month bill.
Thinking of sorting freeview, our aerial aint great so might need an aerial guy to sort. Will likely subscribe though to Netflix and maybe another streaming platform.
So trying to suss out broadband for my post code which, other than Virgin, aint great to be blunt. 67 mbps fastest in my street (away from VM). Anyone know if 67mbps is good enough to stream netflix, etc via my smart tv?
The big pain with leaving VM is having to change my email address, which is 20+ years used. I do have a google one but i dont really use it for messaging.
Just received letter regarding the upcoming price increases which is £12 for my package of broadband, landline phone and tv. It’s an increase of approx 23%.
Before I decide whether to haggle for a new price or leave virgin altogether, is this about the norm for price increases as I read somewhere that the increase should be about 13%? Want to get my facts straight before I proceed.
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Just received letter regarding the upcoming price increases which is £12 for my package of broadband, landline phone and tv. It’s an increase of approx 23%.
Before I decide whether to haggle for a new price or leave virgin altogether, is this about the norm for price increases as I read somewhere that the increase should be about 13%? Want to get my facts straight before I proceed.
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