Virgin Broadband/mobile offer (merged threads)

[Deleted User]

Jim,

If you are looking at Virgin.net's broadband option 2, have you thought about taking up Virgin Mobiles sim-only offer of free Virgin Option 2 if you sign up for a 12 month sim-only mobile contract at £15p/month? You could save £3 p/month and get some mobile minutes and texts for free.

As for the wireless, I can't comment on the wireless options you have mentioned but I use a Netgear WAG354G and have had absolutely no problem at all with it.

Paul.

consumer

hurrah wrote:

You can also use the X-net minutes to call 07744 access numbers to make free Intl Calls.

Are you sure that virgin does not charge for 07744 calls?

I do not have any previous experience with virgin regarding the same. Your feedback will be really very helpful

jimjim22

Hi Paul

Thanks for the info about virgin mobile will look into it

Jim

davemuk

I went for the names.co.uk offer instead, superb deal at £60 + 4.99 p&p. It ends tonight though.

Dave

monomer

consumer wrote:

Are you sure that virgin does not charge for 07744 calls?

I do not have any previous experience with virgin regarding the same. Your feedback will be really very helpful

I can confirm that this is true as I've tried this myself.

See also this summary.

monomer

jimjim22 wrote:

Hi everybody

I have decided to go with virgin.net £17.99 broadband can anybody tell me about the wireless kit £69.99 I think it’s a speed touch 585 I’ve had a belkin in the past without any problems so I was thinking about the belkin F5D8630 any advice would be grateful

Many thanks

The Virgin Wireless Kit is a SpeedTouch 780(WL) Router as far as I can tell. I've not been able to find many reviews on it, but I think it supercedes the Speedtouch 716g (of which there are several favourable reviews about).

jimjim22

Thanks monomer

I will have a look on the Internet and see if I can find any more info on it cheers

fox2319

Phone contract renewal time but rather than the usual shiny-handset hunt, I'm looking into overall cost for the year and possibly getting some 'free' broadband.

I've just seen on the virgin mobile website that you can get a sim-only contract with them for £15 per month for 200 mins & 500 texts which seems like a pretty decent deal and I was seriously considering going for that. I've also seen that they've got a 'free' broadband package which offers up to 8Gb/s with 6GB per month allowance. All this seems like a very good deal and I am very close to signing up but being a doubtful sort I was wondering if others could offer some advice on:

1 - Reliability of Virgin mobile. Is it just a t-mobile reseller? Is their customer service ok?
2 - Reliability of Virgin broadband. Are they prone to large unexplained down-times?
3 - Reading the t's and c's I'm not too sure if this is a redemption deal. Can anyone tell me if it's something you need to pay up front and claim back? A bit worried about one of the conditions which states Follow instructions received with your SIM Card to redeem the offer including providing the relevant Virgin Mobile account / validation details to the specified website within 3 months of signing up to the Pay Monthly SIM Only tariff.

Has anyone got this offer? It sounds a bit too good to be true, mobile phone & broadband for £15 a month.

I apologise if this is the wrong place to post but, if genuine, I'm hoping that more people in the same position as me could benefit.

Best reagrds

Jeff

AMO

It's a SIM only contract as you state in the top of the post, so I doubt that you get a free phone included as well as you state towards the end.

When going for a phone contract, it comes bundled with a phone that tends to be worth around £150-£300.

Whether its worth getting broadband as a replacement is debateable.

AMO

fox2319

AMO wrote:

It's a SIM only contract as you state in the top of the post, so I doubt that you get a free phone included as well as you state towards the end.

When going for a phone contract, it comes bundled with a phone that tends to be worth around £150-£300.

Whether its worth getting broadband as a replacement is debateable.

AMO

Nope, apologise if it was unclear but as I said in the post, it's a sim-only deal. Thanks to an incident with some jeans in a full-cycle of the machine, the new phone side of things is already covered elsewhere for me

I'm not too bothered about a new handset at the mo. I think the fact that this contract is around half the price of those which give you a 'free' phone makes up for the lack of hardware.
Ta

Jeff