NTL/Virgin Mobile. £10=300mins+300texts per month

MaggieMoon_3

bbb.uk - um this sounds too good to be true? Am I reading the Virgin offer correctly - 300 mins talk time to any network, or uk Landline (01 or 02) and 300 mins text, to any network sim card only (so I would have to ask Orange to unlock my phone - for which they would charge I presume?) all for 15 pounds a month - but for how long? one month - 12 months - for ever??? I look forward to reply!! Thank you.

medic1978

Yes, thats right,
300 any network minutes and 300 texts for 15 quid per month

You are only tied in to contract for one month, you can leave whenever you want.

Its a sim only offer, so no phone.
Depending on what phone you have you might be able to unlock it for free or get it done for around £10

sjpkgp

Managed to get through yesterday (I am a telewest with 3 services) and order a black and a pink lobster for my son and daughter, next day delivery. Asked the guy a load of questions and basically you can cancel at anytime, there seems to be some sort of money back guarantee within 28 days, I said "err, but the phones are free", I asked what if you cancel 2 months down the line, what happens to the phone he said, nothing, you get to keep it. I can't see where you can go wrong with this offer really. He said that if I cancelled I would have to tell telewest/virgin and the bank (fine).

I originally received a flyer for this, but then mislaid it in my house and phoned them up on normal customer services to get the freephone number. NOT A HOPE. The bloke was fairly rude and implied it was for bona fide customers with three services - I gave him my account number and asked him to check - I have three services and had genuinely mislaid the leaflet. He said that there might be other criteria that makes only certain people get the offer. Anyway, I got the number from here (thank you mumstheword) and rang, and sure enough I was entitled.

What was a bit irritating is that I was genuinely entitled to take up the offer but I get the feeling that their systems weren't up to saying who had had the marketing material and who had not. It would be interesting to find anyone who rang the number and had only two services - woudl their computer systems detect this. I think not myself.

As an aside, when I did get through, I got a lovely bloke on the phone (north west accent, had a cold) a credit to call centres. i took his name on a post it that I have subsequently lost (think it was Mark or something similar) I am going to write to them and ask them to thank him. I think there should be more of this when we get good service.

oysterman

How long is this offer on for?

The_One_2

oysterman wrote:

How long is this offer on for?

http://www.home.ntl.com/page/virginmobile&log=4
If you look at the 2nd bullet point in terms and conditions it says 31/12/2006


How do you set up your online billing account? what details etc will i need

Thanks

MaggieMoon_3

Hi I am - shortly will not be any more - a very disgruntled long term Orange user - Orange just dont care anymore if you leave them as I ahve found out. Anyway - thanks to this site I too discovered the Virgin offer. Sim only. I spoke to a very nice lady this morning who did not push me at all. I asked about coverage in my area - even Orange is not brilliant - and she went away to find out. She came back and told me that it was not brilliant at all ...Does anyone please know how to find out what the coverage is like for any network really? There may not be of course, but I thought if anyone knew, they would be here on this site! She said that Virgin 'piggie backed' on T Mobile??? Not sure what that means - is that worse or better than say Orange? Thanks for any clues. I am nearly there with my decision now ...but then ..... there may be more advice and info coming along!!!What an interesting and helpful site this is! maggie

The_One_2

MaggieMoon wrote:

Hi I am - shortly will not be any more - a very disgruntled long term Orange user - Orange just dont care anymore if you leave them as I ahve found out. Anyway - thanks to this site I too discovered the Virgin offer. Sim only. I spoke to a very nice lady this morning who did not push me at all. I asked about coverage in my area - even Orange is not brilliant - and she went away to find out. She came back and told me that it was not brilliant at all ...Does anyone please know how to find out what the coverage is like for any network really? There may not be of course, but I thought if anyone knew, they would be here on this site! She said that Virgin 'piggie backed' on T Mobile??? Not sure what that means - is that worse or better than say Orange? Thanks for any clues. I am nearly there with my decision now ...but then ..... there may be more advice and info coming along!!!What an interesting and helpful site this is! maggie

To compare coverage of your postcode area from both networks use the following links
http://www1.orange.co.uk/coverage_landing/
http://www.virginmobile.com/vm/ukCoverage.do?contentId=coverage.in.uk.howdoi.sm235

Yes, Virgin uses the T-Mobile network hence 'piggie backing' off t-mobile

I received my virgin sim and Lobster phone yesterday, and its an absolutely fantastic alternative to pay-as-you-go as i was averaging £10 PAYG!!! i'm a very happy customer

HTH

4_Pete's_Sake

I found out about this offer on the NTL website, we only have NTL for Broadband so called their sales team free on 0800 1830123 and option 2 for existing customers. They patched me through to Virgin where I got to speak to someone in less than 5 minutes.

£10 a month for 300 anytime minutes and 300 texts must surely be the best offer around, a cost of about 3p per minute for anytime calls with unused minutes carried forward to the next month and then the texts on top of that. :T I'm surprised that Martin has not highlighted this offer yet on the main site. :money:

A maximum of 2 persons per household can take this offer however I suspect that if you called them a month later you may well be able to add another.

The same deal will cost £15 direct from virgin if you are not an NTL customer.

This deal is so good that it may well be withdrawn at some point in the future however you are free to leave after 1 month so it would be foolish not to take advantage of it now.:rotfl:

medic1978

peterlittleton wrote:

This deal is so good that it may well be withdrawn at some point in the future however you are free to leave after 1 month so it would be foolish not to take advantage of it now.:rotfl:

Hi, this is a good deal. shame i'm tied in to an orange contract for another 6months.

The £15 per month offer for non-ntl customers has an expiry date of 31/10/06 according to virgin's website.

Not sure about the ntl £10 offer expiry but i thought i read somewhere that it expired on 31/12/06??

4_Pete's_Sake

The offer of a Free Lobster phone to NTL customers with 3 other services ends on 31/12/06 however I guess the £10 a month deal will continue for a while longer.

Has anyone actually asked NTL how long the £10 deal is likely to last?