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After reading some AV forums thread i found out that the soon to be redundant Telewest/NTL and rebranded Virgin Media have brought out a new package that was “soft” launched (not advertised) on Friday. I’m not sure how many Telewest/NTL subscribers we have in here, but the deal goes as follows:
Talk Unlimited (24 hour calling)
Talk International (cheap international calls)
Talk Mobile (Cheap mobile calls)
Broadband Size: XL (10Mb)
TV Size: XL (Family/Supreme Pack)
All Sky Sports (1,2,3,Extra)/Movies (1-9/10)
V+ HD Box (TV Drive)
Second standard STBfor £85 a month.
Personally i’m saving around £50 a month and getting 10Mb BB (up from 4Mb), sky movies, sky sports, the talk packages and a 2nd set top box.
Telewest/NTL have always had a poor reputation in the past with it’s customers, but i’ve always been free of the problems reported and never had a TV outage and always got my full 4Mb download, now with the virgin name behind it, i’m hoping things will go from strength to strength. Theres also rumours abound that on Virgin Media launch day the broadband speeds are going to be up’d to max 20Mb download, but i’m not sure where they are getting that info from.
Sounds nice enough but tbh that would put us spending more than we do anyway as we don’t use most of that regularly.
Technically Virgin ain’t behind it though – NTL did a deal to take Virgin Mobile off Virgin’s hands/merge/whatever, so really the main Virgin company/Richard Branson won’t have fuck all to do with improving services – if anything the newer company has a bigger debt to deal with which could possibly hinder services untill they get on their feet =/
I’d be interested in seing how we could save money on NTL though – we have a tv & phone package and bb is separate – these new combi deals could save us some moolah as we make bugger all calls anyway 🙂
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