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Title: Virgin Media price rises from 1st May Post by: mobaholic on March 28, 2009, 10:35:13 AM The official announcement may be viewed here (http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2009/03/27/virgin-media-confirms-broadband-and-tv-price-increases.html). There is lively comment which can be seen here (http://groups.google.com/group/uk.telecom/browse_thread/thread/bc2e43cee47855ad?hl=en-GB). Quote Virgin have announced some price increases taking effect from 1st May: XL TV up by 1 pound M broadband up by 2 pounds Individual chargeable call features (Call Waiting etc) up by 25p Calls to mobiles up 1p/min Calls to 0844 up 2p/min Calls to premium rate up 5p/min Paper bills charge 1.25/month Itemised billing now free (was 1.00/month) The most sneaky of these are the 0844 and premium rate increases. Especially since some 0844 numbers are 0.5p/min - these now rise to 2.5p/min. And presumably this affects premium rate 'call 0911 to vote...' numbers, where instead of costing 10p flat it'll cost 15p. It's quite annoying that simple to remember 1/2/3/4/5 p/min numbers are now not the same on BT or Virgin. But then TalkTalk have been playing this game too. Yet another reason to steer clear of Virgin for telephony... (Theo Markettos) |