MSE News: Virgin Media's £240 exit fees are too high, says Ofcom
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Virgin Media should not be charging customers exit fees of up to £240, regulator Ofcom has said – but it’s yet to order the company to change its ways....
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'Virgin Media's £240 exit fees are too high, says Ofcom'
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Its about time this happened.
But what isn't included in the list above is if a customer moves house into an area which isn't cabled by Virgin, is that the customers fault?0 -
what isn't included in the list above is if a customer moves house into an area which isn't cabled by Virgin, is that the customers fault?
Virgin Media does not purport to cover the whole of the UK. They cover roughly 50%.
The company's predecessors mostly went bankrupt attempting to provide cable services to the areas they did manage to provide infrastructure for.
I'm sorry, but I don't agree Virgin should be penalised because they don't cover the entire country.0 -
A simple answer is for Virgin to no longer offer connections with anything other than a 30 day contract.
Other smaller suppliers such as iDNET, Zen, AAISP can so why not Virgin.0 -
A_Flock_Of_Sheep wrote: »
Other smaller suppliers such as iDNET, Zen, AAISP can so why not Virgin.
Virgin has it's own network and infrastructure to maintain and so short term contracts are not ever likely to be available or economically viable.
Note that OFCOM have decided the exit fees charged by Virgin are too high, not that exit fees shouldn't be charged at all.0 -
The alternative to exit fees would be an upfront connection fee, but then that would put people off switching to virgin in the first place.
It's unfair if they charge £240 if you left a month earlier than you had agreed to, if you left after only being with them for a month then it's not so bad.0 -
It's unfair if they charge £240 if you left a month earlier than you had agreed to, if you left after only being with them for a month then it's not so bad.
Only those in the very early months of the minimum term are currently charged a £240 exit fee..0
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