Virgin VIP Sim

PdhigginPdhiggin Posts: 20
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Is the virgin 30-day sim VIP unlimited tariff restricted in any way?

Thanks

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  • Chris1973Chris1973 Posts: 670
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    I can't comment on either the calls or texts aspect as I mainly use my phone for internet and only send a handful of texts and make a few minutes of calls, however

    The 'unlimited' data allowance currently has a 3.5gb fair use policy, after which all speeds, including general browsing are limited to 384kbs down / 200kbs up.

    There is some rumour and speculation that the unlimited tariff may be changing soon to become either a 1gb or 3gb per month fixed limit, although nothing has been announced officially, there is a thread currently on their own forum and non of the points made on it have been denied nor corrected by the Virgin Staff members, so we can only assume its factual.

    http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Chatter/Virgin-slammed-over-unlimited-claims/m-p/1873976#U1873976

    I believe that the unlimited Data previously offered on the "Big Data & texts" PAYG tariff will be changing from unlimited to a fixed 1GB (£10 top up ) and 3GB (£15 top up) in July so perhaps these could be the start of any wider changes to other tariffs.

    http://customer.virginmedia.com/bigdata?buspart=DMail_36

    I'd certainly be wary of joining Virgin Mobile if you use mobile internet a lot, as i've seen nothing but restrictions in the short period of time since signed up to them. First of all their FUP was reduced from 10gb to 3.5gb within a month of joining them, next they removed tethering and then there was the mobile internet speed capping fiasco which they sneaked in a few months ago

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/08/virgin_capping/

    I certainly don't trust them nor would I recommend them
  • PdhigginPdhiggin Posts: 20
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    Thank you very much for your reply. I just don't know who to go with for a good balance of price, signal (inside!!) data use and 3G coverage!
  • david16david16 Posts: 14,821
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    Chris1973 wrote: »
    I can't comment on either the calls or texts aspect as I mainly use my phone for internet and only send a handful of texts and make a few minutes of calls, however

    The 'unlimited' data allowance currently has a 3.5gb fair use policy, after which all speeds, including general browsing are limited to 384kbs down / 200kbs up.

    There is some rumour and speculation that the unlimited tariff may be changing soon to become either a 1gb or 3gb per month fixed limit, although nothing has been announced officially, there is a thread currently on their own forum and non of the points made on it have been denied nor corrected by the Virgin Staff members, so we can only assume its factual.

    http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Chatter/Virgin-slammed-over-unlimited-claims/m-p/1873976#U1873976

    I believe that the unlimited Data previously offered on the "Big Data & texts" PAYG tariff will be changing from unlimited to a fixed 1GB (£10 top up ) and 3GB (£15 top up) in July so perhaps these could be the start of any wider changes to other tariffs.

    http://customer.virginmedia.com/bigdata?buspart=DMail_36

    I'd certainly be wary of joining Virgin Mobile if you use mobile internet a lot, as i've seen nothing but restrictions in the short period of time since signed up to them. First of all their FUP was reduced from 10gb to 3.5gb within a month of joining them, next they removed tethering and then there was the mobile internet speed capping fiasco which they sneaked in a few months ago

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/08/virgin_capping/

    I certainly don't trust them nor would I recommend them

    So that's why my radio apps are dropping out and constant rebuffering at certain times.

    From September the PAYG limit is definitely going to be a maximum 3Gb per month data limit according to a text message I received the other day. It will definitely be a move to three for my big smartphone to remain on an unlimted data package. I certainly do not wish to be tied into a contract I cannot be sure of having the funds for come the end of 24 months.

    I notice the mention of EE on the text message. Are they now the driving force that is seeing the end of unlimited data in PAYG with virgin?

    Everybody doesn't want to and clearly cannot afford to fork out £30+ or £40+ per month on a minimum 2 year contract, and even then in many contracts it's not even unlimited data.

    It's the PAYG unlimited data mobile that was a reason for joining virgin mobile in the first place. Soon enough virgin mobile is going to be like orange, t-mobile, vodafone, carphone warehouse and O2 when it comes to mobile data limit such as a pathetic 500mb per month maximum possible within a year or 2.
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