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On the Big Talk Tariff.

Top up £10

Unlimited UK landline calls* & 120 UK mobile minutes
Plus your £10 airtime to use.


http://www.virginmobile.com/vm/genericContent.do?contentId=payasyougo.our.tariff.shop.sm285

* That's numbers beginning 01, 02, or 03 and it excludes call forwarding services of course .

Cheaper then a landline if you just want to use your mobile for landline calls some mobile  and a few texts.

This strikes me as a good offer too, BJ, especially when you take into consideration line rental costs. Do you know if two consecutive calls can be made together? I would imagine so, but it would be good to have confirmation.

Aren't two consecutive calls made one after another by definition ?         ::)

They would hardly be consecutive if made at the same time surely ?        :-\

I think you may have meant concurrent calls.       ;)

( "Those who can, do; those who can't teach", LOL ! )       ;D  ;D  ;D

Yes, indeed you are right..that is what I meant. Concurrent.  :-[ :-[ :D

AFAIK virgin does not allow call merging.

BTW... you've got be mad to put that tariff out on the market...

That will be a loss BIG-TIME loss for virgin :D


dlR

Anybody got any info on a FUP for either landline calls or sms?

On contract, they say its "truly unlimited with no FUP at all, for texts, data and land line minutes".

I can see the following in my PAYG Big Talk account. I have got 240 cross network and unlimited landline.

84565 EA - Tariff Unlimited Landline Voice
240 EA - Tariff Unlimited Anytime

So does that mean:
240 EA = 240 cross network minutes
84565 EA = 84,565 land line minutes ?

that's 2 calls running 24 hours per day over 30days ist't it ???

That's just about right. So in effect it is unlimited in the sense you can make 2 calls 24/7 for 30 days on this PAYG tariff.
WOW!

Good enough for me! ;)

I think it's very good for all. But personally I will give it a miss as I have unlimited land line with virgin at special rate of £7.00.
But for those who were looking for unlimited land line offer, this one is perfect.

..are these values decrementing as you use the phone, yil?

Sorry for late reply.

Current update:

84458 EA - Tariff Unlimited Landline Voice
229 EA - Tariff Unlimited Anytime

Means that's the right FUP (or whatever you call it)

I'm on virgin mobile sim only contract and have the Virgin app on my phone. A strange thing happened on my app today. Usually it states unlimited land line minutes and unlimited data on the app. But today for a very short period it showed:
Land lines : 2,700,000 instead of unlimited
Data : 22147466170 MB instead of unlimited.

After a while it showed the normal "unlimited" under land line and data sections.

So maybe these are what Virgin Mobile's monthly FUP is?

I mean how does someone use 2,700,000 minutes in one month? :o
Even all members on here calling together won't come close to that figure.

So maybe after all they have no FUP and are actually unlimited.

Jagga303

I feel a challenge coming on :P

I wonder how many minutes you get through. ???   It may motivate me to to increase my usage.

are you looking for some incentives ?? ;D

The incentive is already there.  Just need to motivate myself to get the bunch of carrots instead of the single carrot.

Anyone managed credit extraction or know most efficient method?

yoursinlove, how did you manage to obtain 240 cross network mins as I can only see 120 mins given with the PAYG Big Talk. Do the cross network minutes roll over?  Or did you top up twice?

To be very true, i didn't care about minutes, knew when checking landline, a
s you can see untouched, used few to check.
This is new sim with first Topup (I'm thinking to keep it after adding texts!)

Although the Topup is almost finished, I think virgin charged for more than one hour landline call.
I will check it sometime.

I checked my allowance today so find the following:


Cost   Allowance Category   Allowance Type   From   To   Unit   Balance
Free   Reward   EA - Tariff Unlimited Landline Voice         90000   82926
            27/12/2012   10/02/2013   45000   
            01/01/2013   31/01/2013   45000   
Free   Reward   EA - Tariff Unlimited Anytime         240   229
            27/12/2012   10/02/2013   120   
            01/01/2013   31/01/2013   120   

It clearly means, the unlimited landline limit is 45,000, but it is mentioned twice.
I am not sure either it is Reward or duplicate by mistake (reward most probably!)

But for the record 45k is the limit for unlimited landline.

Virgin mobile is offering additional £5 when you top-up new Sim by £5. So the Sim will come with £10 in it which then can be use to opt-in the BigTalk tariff. The unlimited landline minutes are available for use over 45 days.

So top-up with £5, get £10, opt-in BigTalk, get unlimited calls and keep the £10 airtime to use. ;)

Could you please provide the link where its mentioned that virgin is offering 5GBP on 5GBP topup.?

I talked to 2 different customer service rep people on 2 different occasions and both of them offered this. I don't think that this will be available on-line.

Hi,
anyone knows does virgin pay as u go allows conference calls.

No they don't provide..