VIRGIN BROADBAND: new deal £9.99 Inc eve/w/e phone calls

bbb_uk

Just a word of caution.

As Virgin's free evening & weekend inclusive is done by NTL then for calls outside the inclusive plan (ie all other numbers except those beginning 01 or 02) then you will be paying NTL/TW's rates.

These rates are the most expensive for a landline provider. For example, it's 10p/min to call an 0870 number during the daytime whereas it's only 7p/min on BT (and cheaper via Call18185).

I therefore recommend for all calls during the daytime or calls to 084x/087x, mobiles, etc then use Call18185.

aiminghigh

I am quite ignorant of all the terms used in the speed test mentioned earlier.
How do I know what my bandwidth is and my servers isp etc
thanks
chris

Mark_Ice

Not great for the alleged 8 meg line!

espresso

Mark_Ice wrote:

Not great for the alleged 8 meg line!

What alleged 8 Meg line?

Nobody on ADSL Max has an 8 Meg line, it is UP TO 8 Meg and it will fluctuate depending on a lot of different factors like the quality of your line and the time of day etc.

:rolleyes:

edvard_2

Hi All

i'm on Virgin.net £14.99 for a couple of years now with No contract and am thinking about changing to the new £9.99 bundle deal. But I wanted to check that with the new telephone service my phone will have will I still be able to use my 1899.com service or any of the other 18*** phone services. Info from seomone else who is doing this would be great. Thanks in advance

Edward

derrick

edvard wrote:

Hi All

i'm on Virgin.net £14.99 for a couple of years now with No contract and am thinking about changing to the new £9.99 bundle deal. But I wanted to check that with the new telephone service my phone will have will I still be able to use my 1899.com service or any of the other 18*** phone services. Info from seomone else who is doing this would be great. Thanks in advance

Edward

I have not swopped yet, but if you read the T&Cs for the acc, you can use those numbers.

derrick

edvard wrote:

Hi All

i'm on Virgin.net £14.99 for a couple of years now with No contract and am thinking about changing to the new £9.99 bundle deal. But I wanted to check that with the new telephone service my phone will have will I still be able to use my 1899.com service or any of the other 18*** phone services. Info from seomone else who is doing this would be great. Thanks in advance

Edward

I have not swopped yet, but if you read the T&Cs for the acc, you can use those numbers as you will not be swopping your line rental,( assuming you are with BT for line rental).

TheDink

I'm thinking of switching to broadband from dial up, so even 1MBps would be a lot faster!! I just want a cheap service so the Bundle 3 deal looks pretty good. On the Virgin website it says connection for a new customer takes 7-10 days. Does anyone have any experience of this? (I have some pre-paid dial up time to use first so want to try to get the timing right for a switch).

Some of the call charges for non-geographic numbers and daytime calls look very high - make sure you use the 18*** service to avoid these!

trisha

Virgins £9.99 package is probably the best option.
Whatever you do, don't be temptes tp upgrade or buy the up to 8mb max.

I have been with Virgin £17.99 broadband only for three years and it was fine until they upgraded me to max, daytime is not too bad usually about 2to 3 mbps, but after 18:00 it drops to about 180 to 350 mbps
I am only 1 km from the exchange.So it's not that, too many people trying to get through the pipeline at busy times, apparently they are hoping to get a new pipeline sometime next year.
Read the Virgin forum here
http://www.adslguide.org.uk/

photogenius_uk

I'm a complete beginner here - only registered this afternoon! I've bought Virgin's Bundle 3 but in my ignorance didn't realise that my telephone service would change 100% to them at I understand dear rates. I have a BT line but I pay rental to the Phone Co-op. Do i take it that I now have to cancel my CPS with the Phone Co-op and to avoid Vrigin's daytime charges dial 1280 as a prefix to all calls - and then I will get billed by BT?



Alan

bbb_uk wrote:

Just a word of caution.

As Virgin's free evening & weekend inclusive is done by NTL then for calls outside the inclusive plan (ie all other numbers except those beginning 01 or 02) then you will be paying NTL/TW's rates.

These rates are the most expensive for a landline provider. For example, it's 10p/min to call an 0870 number during the daytime whereas it's only 7p/min on BT (and cheaper via Call18185).

I therefore recommend for all calls during the daytime or calls to 084x/087x, mobiles, etc then use Call18185.