Sky Broadband

I've just worked out that following the price increase next month, my Virginmedia bill will have gone up by over 26% in just 2 years! Talk about taking the urine.

I've got my figures worked out and will give them hell about it when I find the time to phone up.  

Quoted from cmackenzie4

I am the same Tom, I also have the movies for the kids too. The only problem i have with the Tivo is that every now and again i have to re-set it due to freezing and then i lose all the past recordings.

I've had the tivo and the V+ box for about 18 months now and only had one problem and that was with the V+ box, it kept freezing so they changed it and I've not had any more bother.

Tivo's been excellent for me. Had it for about a year - no complaints at all.

I am also with Virgin for TV, broadband and telephones.   Generally happy with the service, although the internet has gone down for 4 days and 2 days in the last 18 months.  The compensation is derisory.

Like Maringer I am surprised and annoyed at the recently notified price increase of £6  a month from Feb 2015.  This comes on top of low-cost deals to induce people to move to Virgin.  Loyalty has no value of course when you already with them.

I too am thinking of moving to Evil Sky.  Virgin quote free maintenance callouts and faster broadband.  The technical support is very good with Virgin.  My athletics training partner said that in theory Sky charge for maintenance.  However, if you ring up and threaten to leave then they always waive the costs.  Or have done so to date.

My mate reckons that the Sky Plus remote is far superior to anything else on the market and a very useful viewing and recording tool.  

I think that Sky offer better inducements to move to them (and to stay).  They are more driven by maintaining and increasing their market share that Virgin are.

One sky mate can get BT sports for NL games, the other can't. With Virgin these games are free.  Why can't Town get promoted to make decision-making easier?

Will see what happens after Xmas.  

Well, I phoned Virgin the other day and the offer they put on the table was, quite frankly, rubbish. I've given them 30 days notice and will see if the retentions team get back to me over the next couple of weeks before actually making the move to Sky. I understand that they often phone you up with better offers once you've given notice...

It would be nice to get one over on a vast, faceless corporation, but I'm not holding my breath about it! Hopefully the Sky Broadband will suffice if it comes to that.