Virgin Media offer

Virgin Media is known for enticing new customers with good deals. Wait until the contract ends and you get stung with less favourable price. Then of course there are the annual (sometimes bi-annual) price rises.
Oh, what a wicked web we weave...

To be fair, the reason many of us stick with Virgin Media is that the service is actually very good. Whether its worth the extortionate prices it wishes to charge is another matter.

That's a good deal.

I'm already with Virgin so no good to me though.

Anyone haggled for a better deal on Virgin?

I am out of the original contract period, but didn't hear anything.

They put the price up from £30 to £50 ish, but not sure if I am on a new contract or a rolling one?

Will give them a call.

I like the TV box, but as fibre can be had elsewhere for about £20 a month, it's a lot to pay.

Thanks. I still haven't given them a call!

My TV supports having a USB drive plugged in and being able to record to that.

But I haven't tested it as we don't have an aerial plugged in.

Biggus_Dickus wrote: »

I’ve been a Virgin fibre customer for 8 years. I recently gave them 30 days notice to cancel my contract,...110Mbps broadband only, no phone or TV.

However, my master-plan to switch to a ‘Three’ 4G mobile router on a cheap 24-month deal has crashed and burned I’m afraid.

Land-line based broadband is completely hopeless round my way,...and that includes the FTTC offerings, so Virgin fibre is the only viable option open to me now.

Since I gave notice last week I’ve had a number of calls from Virgins’ retentions desk;...this morning I managed to negotiate this new deal: 54Mbps package;19/month for 12 months, then £24/month for the next 6 months. Not sure what will happen after 18-months but I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it.

I’m quite happy to accept the reduced speed package;...54Mbps is perfectly adequate for me. I just wish I’d been offered the new deal before I got myself involved with ‘Three’,...big mistake as it turns out.

Unfortunate they know how good other services are in your area because of your postcode and would not doubt they have that on their computer screens while you do the deal.

For me having the 100 service but could easily get by on 50 most other providers can supply those speeds with better upload speeds and that was my bargaining chip when I rang them last month and got my 100/10 service reduced from £33 a month to £21-50 for 6 months then £25 for the next 6 months so more than happy with that.

Just for info but might have been said elsewhere that Virgin have increased the upload speeds on the 100 Mb service from 6Mb to 10Mb and lucky for me I already had that information before I rang retentions as I could of put my foot in my mouth as there uploads speeds or lack of it has been a bug bear for me.

If your on 100 and getting 6 upload rebooting the router might get you 10 up, if your area has been upgraded and I’m not aware of Virgin publishing the fact the speeds have gone up which I find strange. Bad news though the 50 Mb service remains at 5 Mb upload.:(