Virgin broadband only - what's the deal?
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I live in a Virgin cabled area, on an urban estate. Virgin regularly send me promotional material to get me to switch to them. I quite fancy cable broadband, but I don't want nor need a landline, nor do I watch TV, so I'm not really in the market for a 'bundle'. Virgin are very careful in their brochures to note that you don't need a landline for their broadband, while at the same time never listing a price for broadband-only service.
This leads me to suspect that they don't offer a decent deal on broadband alone.
I had a search on the Virgin Media forum, but the most relevant threads there concern Virgin customers seeking to cut down their bundle, and even worse, the forum discourages discussion of tariffs users are on.
Virgin's cable already comes into the house, and I don't need set-up help or support. I don't even need a cable router from them, I've got a better one than their standard kit sitting in a box somewhere.
I have two questions:
This leads me to suspect that they don't offer a decent deal on broadband alone.
I had a search on the Virgin Media forum, but the most relevant threads there concern Virgin customers seeking to cut down their bundle, and even worse, the forum discourages discussion of tariffs users are on.
Virgin's cable already comes into the house, and I don't need set-up help or support. I don't even need a cable router from them, I've got a better one than their standard kit sitting in a box somewhere.
I have two questions:
- What are people paying Virgin for cable broadband only?
- What is the best way to approach Virgin to get a decent broadband-only deal?
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http://shop.virginmedia.com/broadband/up-to-30mb.html
£21/m for 10Mb broadband only doesn't appeal much either. I'm looking for more subtle help than you are offering, I think.
There's a few offers on a Quidco with multiple bundles. Add in the cashback and it might be cheaper to take it out with the phone line and cancel that at the earliest opportunity.
I don't think your analogy is too strong either. Some service suppliers, having already paid for their infrastructure and already taken on their operating costs, reason that getting something is better than nothing, and there's always the possibility that you might upgrade (unlikely in my case). Nothing in a shop works like this, let alone Mars bars.
There's nothign stopping you phoning Virgin and asking if they can do some kind of deal but the likelihood is that you will be told the price is what it is and take it or leave it.
Perhaps physical products wasn't the best analogy, but bear in mind that R&D isn't over with the infrastructure as more is constantly being added (100meg rollout at the moment, 250 meg being looked at and that's not counting the "hub" services they're promoting recently that nobody is bothering to use)
Only think that springs to mind would be the refer a friend service if you already know someone on virgin:
http://www.virginmedia.com/myvirginmedia/connect-a-friend/
or possibly cashback sites like quidco:
http://www.quidco.com/virgin-media/
Virgin's cost of 'acquiring' me would be next to zero...
I know two people who took just broadband and quidco paid the full £150 cashback to each of them. Service was connected September '09