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Virgin Bundle One

Regarding Virgin Broadband & Talk Bundle One, does the £19.99 also incude line rental? Or do I have to pay BT £11 a month aswell?

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  • Heinz
    Heinz Posts: 11,191 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Car Insurance Carver!
    According to http://www.virgin.net/allyours/broadband/

    Non-cable Broadband

    Home sweet home

    You can get Virgin Media services whether you live in an on cable or non-cable area. On cable is delivered by fibre optic cable and non-cable down your BT phone line.
    So, if you're not in a cabled area, you have to pay BT £10.75/month for the landline on top.

    Which means £19.99 is just for 'up to 8mb' broadband and all UK 01/02 calls of up to an hour.
    Time has moved on (much quicker than it used to - or so it seems at my age) and my previous advice on residential telephony has been or is now gradually being overtaken by changes in the retail market. Hence, I have now deleted links to my previous 'pearls of wisdom'. I sincerely hope they helped save some of you money.
  • So would you agree that Vodafone at Home is the best package for Phone and Broadband? £25 a month for unlimited 8Mb and landline rental included with free calls to landlines, sounds too good to be true!
  • Heinz
    Heinz Posts: 11,191 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Car Insurance Carver!
    So would you agree that Vodafone at Home is the best package for Phone and Broadband? £25 a month for unlimited 8Mb and landline rental included with free calls to landlines, sounds too good to be true!
    Those last 5 words always worry me - time to study the very small print IMHO!

    The Sales line is an 0870 number!
    Time has moved on (much quicker than it used to - or so it seems at my age) and my previous advice on residential telephony has been or is now gradually being overtaken by changes in the retail market. Hence, I have now deleted links to my previous 'pearls of wisdom'. I sincerely hope they helped save some of you money.
  • C_Ronaldo
    C_Ronaldo Posts: 4,732 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    you dont pay BT £11 a month if you have virgin landline telephone
    No Links in Signature by site rules - MSE Forum Team 2
  • C. Ronaldo, even if I live in a NON-cabled area?
  • utilitybroker
    utilitybroker Posts: 2,207 Forumite
    C_Ronaldo wrote: »
    you dont pay BT £11 a month if you have virgin landline telephone

    Virgin Media provide two different sorts of phone services.

    1. Ex Virgin Net where you need a BT line to cps your calls.

    or 2. Ex Cable where they provide a cable line and a call package.
  • BexTech
    BexTech Posts: 4,772 Forumite
    C_Ronaldo wrote: »
    you dont pay BT £11 a month if you have virgin landline telephone



    ...but if the person doesn't live in a cable area then they will have to pay BT for line rental and VirginMedia for calls and broadband.
    It's PAC not PAC Code, it's MAC not MAC Code, it's PIN not PIN Number, it's ATM not ATM Machine, it's LCD not LCD Display, it's DVD not DVD disc... It's no one not noone, It's a lot not alot, It's got not gotten... Panini is the plural of panino - there is no S!!
    (OK my English isn't great, the sciences, maths & IT are my strong points!)
  • utilitybroker
    utilitybroker Posts: 2,207 Forumite
    Even if you live in a Virgin Media cable area you dont have to take the cable service. You can still take the Ex Virgin Net Broadband and CPS,and use BT for your line rental.
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