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Just got off the phone with "Virgin Media" pmsl

According to them, i havnt lost any channels of substance.
But beacuse i'm a long term customer...

I now run at £21 for the following services.

2mb Broadband.
Base Pack (128 ch) pmsl, they got arsy when i said now count it again with out the free view and duplicate +1 Channels.
Telephone

I got £4 off them.

Dont forget with SKY you need a BT Telephone Line
And you could be charged a installation and connection Fee

So with a SKY Package Add £10 to your bill roughly.
But BT is i think cheaper than virgins line rental.

You could get Sky with ToucanTalk and it would be £29.99 per month for all that (and lots more channels of course, much better service) before any discount.

To me even if Virgin offered a plan like that as standard, it still wouldnt warrant a changeover, as for the few extra pound a month, Sky is well worth it for having a service that works and a company that knows what its doing.

All existing Virgin Media customers can almost certainly haggle with Sky now to get even better deals. If you phone them up at the right time of day, I know for a fact ye can get 6 months half price from em lol.

You could get Sky with ToucanTalk and it would be £29.99

You still need a BT Line Matty + £10

BT Could charge you a Installation Fee.
SKY could charge you a Installation Fee.
You may have to pay for the SKY BOX £50 ?

Matty you have to also make people aware of other costs,
so £26 Per Month for 3 services from sky seems good.
But lets put BT on top and you get £36 per month.
Lets put SKY + On top and it could be £46 per month.

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Sky is good, thats agreed, but i dont want to pay
silly amounts for TV. Broadband and Telephone are
all that intrest me. (At the moment)

If your happy to pay out £35(with sky +)or what ever a month that's fine
for you, but i dont want to throw £45 (+Telephone) a month on media.

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So if you do decide to switch do your homeworkd first.

1. BT Line Rental Costs
2. BT Installaion Costs / Re Activation
3. SKY Installation Costs
4. SKY Box / SKY + Box Costs

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When you add those up you can then decide if its worth it.
For a few extra quid a month?

I think you need to go away and find out what ToucanTalk is prior to posting that matey, its not a CPS

Also, are you entirely satisfied with the level of service you recieve from Virgin? Does their tv service work fast and without problems? Are the customer service fast and knowledgable? Do they deliver on promises and make sure they release working products? And do they give a damn about customers (as in the Sky channel loss case)?

The answer to that with Sky, seems to be yes, I cannot find fault with their services atm. For the few pound more (although in truth its a few pound less) it doesnt warrant such low quality service imho. People waste more then the difference in a couple of hours days...



Sky installation is free...
Sky boxes are free...
BT line re-activation is free...
BT installation is only not free if they have to send an engineer out to replace the physical line.
BT line installation when the cable is broken is free as its classed as a fault on line.

BT NEW Line = £124.99

Prices

Firstly, read this:


Usually, the only time a line has been removed is by a cable company. Almost all houses have some sort of physical telephone line from BT, unless its a brand new one.

Secondly, my mum was told by BT themselves, it was free, unless it needed re-installing, in which case it would be £75.00, but she got it down to £25.00 after stating she could have a cable line installed for that much. She got it free anyway, like I did, and pretty much everyone I know... (Not only NTL can offer discounts you know )

If we want to go by list prices, you will find that Virgin list prices are substantially beaten by Sky/Toucan services.

Take for instance the following equasions:


and for the equivalent to my package


So at standard pricing they are extremely high, hence they can offer discounts. And even compared to the standard Sky pricing, they are not overly amazing as they first seem...

And of course Sky will give the first 3 months at half price to new customers, and after you are out of contract, they will give further temporary but regular discounts like 6 months half price etc.

Sky have made a public statement saying they are available for talks with Virgin Media regarding the channels situation at any time.

In the meanwhile they have launched an agressive poster advertising campaign, which Virgin have asked for imho:

If i go to any of the removed channels
it now says. SKY has removed this channel
or words to that effect lol

Lol, propaganda from both sides it seems then.

Really is should just say the channel is not currently available or something lol.

Virgin Customers Can Cancel Even If They Are Under Crontract


So this means that even if you are still in contract, you can cease it with them. Now you can be free Scott!

Also, the National Consumer Council has slammed Sky and Virgin for the dispute affecting customers, stating the following:


To be fair to Sky they did try to go direct so customers wouldnt lose out in the short term, but Virgin are making sure they can't atm...

On top of this, Virgin have become VERY CHILDISH by renaming the following channels:


Virgin seem to be acting like its all a big game, blame Branson!!

Nice to see the money Virgin Media are saving is being spent wisely and in the interest of the customers who are losing the channel's yet still having to pay the same price... They are spending the million's on sponsoring Big Brother 8.

Wehay I bet all the VM customer's will be excited by that news!

yer that great news as i am a customer bloody idiots