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Virgin Media customers face ANOTHER price hike - Your rights and how to beat the rise
11:45, 19 AUG 2016 UPDATED 16:01, 19 AUG 2016
BY EMMA MUNBODH
More than 5 million customers will see their bills rise by up to £3.49 a month as the network hikes rates for the THIRD time this year
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Line rental price will rise by £1 to £19 per month on 1 November 2016
Virgin Media customers face yet another price rise after the multi-million pound company announced monthly bills for subscribers will increase by up to £3.49 a month from November.
The network, which offers a multitude of premium sports and Sky channels will up TV package prices by 5.1% for 5.2 million customers - with bills rising by £1 and £3.49, depending on the service they're currently signed up to.
This includes a £1.01 monthly line rental rise for telephone customers - taking the monthly fee to £19. The cheapest line rental provider is TalkTalk, which charges just £17.70.
For hundreds of Virgin Media customers, this is the third price hike of the year, following a £1 rise on 1 February for 4.4 million customers, and another on Sky Sports and Sky Movies packages on 1 June.
On 1 July, the network also increased Virgin Mobile tariff costs by 1.6% to keep in line with inflation.
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Virgin Media customers face ANOTHER price hike - Your rights and how to beat the rise
11:45, 19 AUG 2016 UPDATED 16:01, 19 AUG 2016
BY EMMA MUNBODH
More than 5 million customers will see their bills rise by up to £3.49 a month as the network hikes rates for the THIRD time this year
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Line rental price will rise by £1 to £19 per month on 1 November 2016
Virgin Media customers face yet another price rise after the multi-million pound company announced monthly bills for subscribers will increase by up to £3.49 a month from November.
The network, which offers a multitude of premium sports and Sky channels will up TV package prices by 5.1% for 5.2 million customers - with bills rising by £1 and £3.49, depending on the service they're currently signed up to.
This includes a £1.01 monthly line rental rise for telephone customers - taking the monthly fee to £19. The cheapest line rental provider is TalkTalk, which charges just £17.70.
For hundreds of Virgin Media customers, this is the third price hike of the year, following a £1 rise on 1 February for 4.4 million customers, and another on Sky Sports and Sky Movies packages on 1 June.
On 1 July, the network also increased Virgin Mobile tariff costs by 1.6% to keep in line with inflation.
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Virgin Media customers face yet another price rise after the multi-million pound company announced monthly bills for subscribers will increase by up to £3.49 a month from November. The network, which offers a multitude of premium sports and Sky channels will up TV package prices by 5.1% for 5.2 million customers - with bills rising by £1 and £3.49, depending on the service they're currently signed up to. This includes a £1.01 monthly line rental rise for telephone customers - taking the monthly fee to £19. The cheapest line rental provider is TalkTalk, which charges just £17.70. For hundreds of Virgin Media customers, this is the third price hike of the year, following a £1 rise on 1 February for 4.4 million customers, and another on Sky Sports and Sky Movies packages on 1 June. On 1 July, the network also increased Virgin Mobile tariff costs by 1.6% to keep in line with inflation. |
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On top of Santander halving the interest rates on their 123 account this is grim news...all one way traffic at the moment ..BA$TARDS
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Branston needs more money to try and make his space plane safe probs.
So he can profit from that too. |
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Got to pay for these Footy tickets somehow
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Anyone know if i can have virgin broadband without the line rental?
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I think you can
However the broadband becomes more expensive Such is the nature of bread dipping opportunistic capitalism. Add everything tv, broadband all channels the lot, then watch the price INCREACE as you take stuff off  |
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Increase
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Such was my disgust I spelled increase wrong
They push so much crap on society that is owned by rights holders attempting to maximise profit on nothing of worth. Absolutely infuriates me. |
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Inflation has hardly been rampant to justify these rises I for one will be leaving if this rise is passed onto me.
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Virgin Media isn't owned by Branson anymore, Dusty. He sold it in 2013 to Liberty Global plc.
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He still owns a small share but you are correct
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Well whoever continues the facade that he did nicely out of its all the same to me.
Dishing up shoite on the premis that more shoite is better than less to the extent that the price increases the less content you take undermines the very essence of 'creating value' Sure it's an often used tactic to dump more wares on people who don't want or need them but in the case of media bilge using marketing to hudwink the masses into believing they want it is actually counter productive due to the 'choice paradox'. |
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I scrapped my overpriced Virgin package about 6 months ago (prices had crept up from around 35/month to 67/month) - ditched their phone line rental ripoff (which should never have been legal anyway) when they finally made it non-compulsory, and got rid of the TV package (who watches TV these days?). I now pay for broadband only - 30/month, and I get 50Mb speed. More than good enough.
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YOU DO NOT HAVE TO AGREE TO THESE TERMS if you are in a contract.
Phone them and tell them you disagree to the price hike and that they are in breach of your contract. Tell them you want to leave. You will be put through to retentions where you can renegotiate. You'll get another 18 month contract but you can do the same when they next hike their prices. Despite being a rip off, I like Virgin for internet speed and reliability. |
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The internet is the only thing anyone should really want, everything else is bad value or just plain bad product.
The internet itself is artificially kept high. It is by definition a technology product and hence should be directed by the rule of moores law. This isnt the case because they leverage value with erroneous boost of speed in most cases un required. So instead of the price naturally decreasing for the same product they offer something to keep the price up. |
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Only recently I discovered that, I went from £23 to £67 over many years of loyal customer. They hit me with a surcharge for something I disagreed with and they wouldn't budge with it. I went onto HotUkDeals and got some advice and now pay £30 a month. When/if they send me a price hike letter, I'll be phoning them.
Agree Dusty. |
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The price risers are a p!ss taking joke but Sky are just as bad. I ring retention's every price hike to sort out a deal. Last time they gave me a new customer deal which was £65 200m broadband, TVXL, Sky Sports HD...actually price is around £110 per month.
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*rises
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greedy company
plus their hidden charges . is beardy still at the helm ? |
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can you get out of a contract early if they keep doing this?
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Yes afaik
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Under rules set by telecoms regulator Ofcom, existing customers who are not happy with the price hikes can leave without a penalty charge.
From the day they receive details of the price change from Virgin, customers will have 30 days in which to cancel their contract. |