Virgin have changed their pay monthly tariffs. Wow! Are they expensive! I cant believe that some of their plans include just 25 texts and cost almost £20p/m! They've also put up the prices of their handsets too.

My contract just came to an end... Think i'll be looking elswhere.

I noticed that too.

On both SIM only monthly and 24 month contracts ( no 18 month contract, why? ) they are offering:

less standard minutes
standard 3000 Virgin mobile to Virgin mobile
5GB of Mobile Web
5000 Txts.

They need to rethink the tariffs. ( Yes I know if you don't like it you can go elswhere )

it is shocking how bad they are getting now they have gone from the best network you could get to now just a joke

Branson needs to seriously buy out the cable lot from the mobile business. It's shockingly bad now.

I have been on Virgin Pay & Go since 2001 and still on the original pay & go tariff which gives me free voicemail.

The addict tariff and the pay monthly tariffs now are so expensive that I wouldn't consider these at all.

If not for the free voicemail, then i would leave and join giff gaff.

Virgin is now too expensive and it isn't just mobile phones - they are also very expensive for tv and telephone packages. They are no longer competitive.

virgin mobile use to be good for the mobile prices but they are now getting very expensive not as good as they use to be

Typical new customer on the Addict PAYG tariff:

26ppm
50p flat fee for data usage up to 25MB.

PAYG bundles are crap too.

If it wasn't for me being on the Daily Bonus tariff (16ppm with 5 free mins and texts after 5 mins of spending/5 texts) which Virgin no longer sell to customers, I'd be off.

I only do PAYG.

My main Virgin phone is still on Daily Bonus.

I've just bought a couple of extra unlocked phones from CPW, which come with £10 top-up from CPW once received. On Addict tariff @ 26p/min

I was able to transfer these 2 x £10 top ups to my main Virgin number, because they were top-ups, and not credit on phones when purchased.

So I ended up with two extra unlocked phones for very little.

(I think CPW generally sell unlocked phones because they offer tariffs from different providers for the same phone, a good tip for the future.)

That's a great tip, thanks.

I normally use my Virgin Rewards (£10 for every £100 spent) to upgrade my phone for either nothing or a small fee.