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Piracy can affect the global economy negatively because there are lesser foreign exch
Piracy can affect the global economy negatively because there are lesser foreign exchange activities, there are losses of profits and it affects the government's appropriation of funds Hi, I would like to ask you guys to kindly please answer this survey: I promise you guysss that its short, here's the link:…
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SKY Line - Broadband Provider Question
I've moved into a property which currently has no phoneline. I used SKY's online shop to way up the best deal and to see how much a phoneline would cost. It came back and said if I had SKY Talk a new line would be fitted at the cost of just £10. Now I rang SKY and the agent said that if I have SKY fit a SKY Phone line then…
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Broadband cancellation fees
Hi, Just wondering if anyone knows how much companies charge for cancelling broadband services mid-contract? Currently living in a plce with only a six-month lease, probably will stay for the whole 12 month a broadband conract would take up, but just wondering if I had to pull out early how much that would cost?
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BT Broadband: switch now or wait for 21CN?
Hi guys I am thinking of switching to BT Broadband as they have some good deals + cashback which would save me some £££. Not a lot of choice on my exchange, all we have is plain old BT wholesale ADSL+ (no LLU etc). Looked my exhange up on samknows, apparently we are getting 21cn in June. My question is this: should I…
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Need a short term broadband option.
Hi, I just wondered if anyone had any advice. I have just moved into a new shared flat, and I am looking to setup the internet there. As we have ionly signed the lease for 6 months, don't want to commit to a 12 internet contract so I am looking for the best short term option. I have seen that 02 offers some such deals. I…
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Talk Talk needed a quick maths lesson
I had an interesting chat with TalkTalk's customer loyalty department in India today. I asked them what they were going to charge me for phone and broadband as a renewing customer, as my 12 month contract ended in a few weeks. They said they currently charge me £22.30 per month, and they could give me an all-day call…
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Moving from Virgin
Well the time is right to leave,their broadband has failed at least 5 times in the last month leaving us without internet all day.The phone charges are ridiculous as well, we only have the basic tv. Who do people recommend moving to and are there any good offers out there? we have gone well over the contract,so no problems…
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Disconnection fee even though contract ended.
Hi guys, hope this is posted in the right place! Just a quick question about having to pay a disconnection charge with Virgin. Can't find anything online. I was getting my internet and land line through Virgin, I phoned them on the last day of the contract to say I was going with Sky and that I didn't need their services…
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Primus Saver ISP, ever heard of them?
Hi, We are moving house which is new build with no line installed. We are with VM atm and they are going to charge us £7 more a month for a much slower connection (new property doesn't have cable) so i'm using the new price increase to cancel our contract with them. I've been looking around and was going to go with Orange…
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Hyperoptic
1GBPS broadband! (and 100, and 20 mbps) The have rolled out through London towards the end of last year, and will choose the next key cities depending on how much interest they get via their site. They are really cheap and it is by former BE employees. https://hyperoptic.com/web/guest/home#1
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BE Broadband
Hi, I think this forum helped me out last year, so decided to revisit. Thank you! We joined BE for broadband 2 years ago. Last year, they were increasing the charges, and thankfully due to the advice of MSE members, we got them to agree to give us half price broadband for 6 months, which worked out just over £7/month for 6…
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Email hosting
Hi, We want to switch telephone and broadband providers, but would like to choose an email address that the family can use and keep forever, so that when we change phone and / or broadband companies again, we don't have to keep changing our email address. I'm a bit overwhelmed by the google search options, and wondered if…
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Broadband dropouts
Hi guys, I have been noticing sporadic intermittent drop outs in my broadband connection when playing poker. It keeps disconnecting me and then throwing me back in after reconnecting. Having spoken to the poker provider, they confirmed that they're servers were fine and the problem lies with me. I then called O2, my…
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Bt Wholesale question
Hi I’m thinking of changing my Broadband/call package, currently have Virgin unlimited b-band and calls £12.55. I’ve just paid Bt line rental saver upfront ( so about £10 p/mth). Can someone explain whether Bt wholesale provide Virgin media with the internet here, GU33 6JQ? I’ve never understood how this “wholesale”…
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Can anyone help me with GMail?
I set up a GMail account a couple of weeks ago and added it to Outlook Express and everything is coming through fine. As I am changing ISPs I will be without internet access for a few days and I may want to check my emails at the library or on my son's computer. How do I access GMail on the web? Google is set as my home…
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skype
Could someone please explain what skype is ?? My teenage son says all his friends chat to each other on skytype . Would we need to change to SKY to get skype ? as we are with virgin media also do you need to have a web cam to use skype ? sorry i have no idea on things like this
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Virgin Media price changes?
I received an email from VM shortly before the new faster speeds were advertised saying that monthly prices are due to be reduced for some customers, but since this I've seen nothing and heard nothing. Can anyone shed any light on this? I'll dig out the email and put it here when I find it. I do plan to ring CS about this…
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BT internet gone horribly slow
Hey guys, Just got home from a meeting to find disastrously slow internet. Any tips? Cleared cache, renewed DHCP lease (I’m on an iMac), but still nothing. I will try my best to answer questions, but please be aware that my training is in PR, not internet stuff :) CK
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VM Double BB Speed 30 initial towns announced
Virgin Media is now ready to start doubling download speeds for 1.5 million of its broadband subscribers in 30 towns and cities across the UK. This info is from here A full list of the 30 towns receiving the upgrade in March and April is available here
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Virgin Media price hike letter today - who else got one?
I am on Phone + Broadband M and got an approx 12% price hike letter today. Are they targeting the lower spenders?
