AOL Price Increase

OldGreyFox

They probaly mean Virgin Non Cable aka Virgin National.

http://www.virgin.net/allyours/

laudo

Try SKY, thats where i am off to.

1carminestocky

Their prices go up in Sept (though granted not be as much as AOL, lol).

oily_rag

I'm feeling liberated. I finally plumped for the Post Office Home Phone and Broadband Extra package at £24.95 a month so it's goodbye AOL and BT. :j

Despite the obvious savings the real bonus is the UK based call centres so no more ringing Mumbai when I have a problem

Thanetian

An American friend who resides in Knoxville, Tennessee, has been using AOL for many years, as have I. Whereas I having been paying £9.99 a month, and now, like others, face a dramatic rise to £17.99 a month, he has just told me that he pays AOL a mere $4.95 a month although he could get the service free!

martin57

Well I am on £9.99 from aol as well, was actually promised that it would remain at that price as long as I stayed on that package 2 years ago, even got it confirmed by email.

When I told them this yesterday they were having none of it ans said it was a change to term and conditions.

Anyways I have managed to get aol continued for £15.99 a mth first 3 mths at £9.99 and no contract, confirmed by email

The £9.99 deal was for nothing anyways, I often wondered how they could do it at that price, too good to last.

martin57

M_Thomson

Thanetian wrote: »

An American friend who resides in Knoxville, Tennessee, has been using AOL for many years, as have I. Whereas I having been paying £9.99 a month, and now, like others, face a dramatic rise to £17.99 a month, he has just told me that he pays AOL a mere $4.95 a month although he could get the service free!

Are you sure that isn't for dial up? I don't think AOL has had a broadband presence in the States for a few years now.

del1001

martin57 wrote: »

Well I am on £9.99 from aol as well, was actually promised that it would remain at that price as long as I stayed on that package 2 years ago, even got it confirmed by email.

When I told them this yesterday they were having none of it ans said it was a change to term and conditions.

Anyways I have managed to get aol continued for £15.99 a mth first 3 mths at £9.99 and no contract, confirmed by email

The £9.99 deal was for nothing anyways, I often wondered how they could do it at that price, too good to last.

martin57

Well, no, not really, there are certainly other deals around for less than £15.99 per month.

deanos

Just got a letter today from AOL saying that its £9.99 for 3 months then £15.99 a month unlimited but upping my speed up to 8mb, it does say in the letter no minimum contract

butterflymum

The following quote is from a recent article at http://www.broadband-expert.co.uk/blog/broadband-news/millions-of-broadband-bills-to-see-a-30-increase-by-%E2%80%98profiteering%E2%80%99-bt/771334

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"The current wholesale costs are from £81.69 per year to provide a home with a broadband link, which BT is planning to increase by 11 percent in April to £91. This has essentially been agreed by Ofcom, the industry regulator, who is willing to allow an increase to £112 a year by 2012, which compared to today’s figures is an increase of 37 percent.
BT will also still be using its existing copper wire network to run broadband services when the increase is made, although it has pledge to build a new high-speed fibre-optic network to replace this at a cost of £1.5 billion. This cost will be passed on to all consumers according to Ofcom."



...yes, big rises, but not as big as 80%, so makes me wonder even more where AOL got their 80% increase figures.

By the way, the full article at the link makes interesting reading if you have time.