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Old 02-12-2014, 08:08
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Well this would certainly shake things up.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/n...obal-deal.html

Assume this would mean MBNL would become a customer of Vodafone?

With the C&W network they purchased, i guess this woukd give vodafone a pretty extensive fibre network in the UK
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Old 02-12-2014, 09:35
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I predicted this a few months ago. Assuming it would clear competition watchdogs this would make Vodafone extremely powerful. I wouldn't rule out them buying Sky either.
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Old 02-12-2014, 10:57
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I predicted this a few months ago. Assuming it would clear competition watchdogs this would make Vodafone extremely powerful. I wouldn't rule out them buying Sky either.
Yeah but would there custom service get any better they have the worst out of all the networks and the most complaints

To be honest i don't think it will go through because of the competition
you will be going back in time not forward
If you remember when the mobile first came out over here in the 80s there was only 2 providers Cellnet and Vodafone then came Orange a year or so afterwards its gradually going back that way to 2 players all the others just hanging on for dear life.
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Old 02-12-2014, 17:44
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I assume you mean getting virgin mobile would cause the regulator to stop based on competition.

I dont think there would be any problems due to VM being just an MVNO.

Reading the reports it looks like the only competition issues would be in Germany, even there those writing on this suggest the courts would over rule the regulator
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Old 02-12-2014, 18:00
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i hope not, other wise there will be more text messages trying to get me to update my account. Anyway, Vodafone really need to sort out their mobile network first
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Old 02-12-2014, 21:37
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Oh god nooooooo

Vodafone really are the pits!
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Old 02-12-2014, 23:20
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Ah crap only with Virgin Mobile cause they use EE, if they switch to Vodaphone I'm screwed as no signal here (not even 2G).
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Old 03-12-2014, 00:50
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If you remember when the mobile first came out over here in the 80s there was only 2 providers Cellnet and Vodafone then came Orange a year or so afterwards its gradually going back that way to 2 players all the others just hanging on for dear life.
Not sure where you got that timeline from.

Cellnet and Vodafone were around in 1984/5, one2one launched September 1993, Orange April 1994, Virgin Mobile (one of the first virtual operators?) about 2000, Three in 2003.

Now there are stacks of virtual operators and I do wonder how some of them survive.

Virgin survived early on because of the deal it had done with T-Mobile that was quite bizarre; it got paid a fixed fee for every subscriber it had. Thus, Virgin were keen to give out SIM cards willy nilly and not cut them off even when it was obvious the SIM wasn't being used. That contract was eventually re-negotiated!

Now I assume Virgin makes the bulk of its money from mobile by offering SIM cards primarily to customers who take other Virgin Media services - and if you sign up with Virgin then I'm sure you'll get bombarded with invitations to get other Virgin Media services if you haven't already. Now it seems every network is assuming this is the future and the way to make money, not just selling a standard phone sub.
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Old 03-12-2014, 02:33
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Ah crap only with Virgin Mobile cause they use EE, if they switch to Vodaphone I'm screwed as no signal here (not even 2G).
And it will probably be 1GB data per month max (down from 3GB) for £15 on PAYG as well. And a price increase to boot for those PAYG customers who currently pay £10 for 1GB data per month as well.

Even less data still and much poorer signal for the same money is truly pathetic.

I hate these takeovers because it always seems to result in a worse service for the customer.
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Old 03-12-2014, 02:43
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Oh god nooooooo

Vodafone really are the pits!
It will be really annoying if you moved from Vodafone to Virgin to get a much better service for sim only, only for you to suddenly be back with Vodafone because Virgin have struck a deal with them.
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Old 03-12-2014, 03:06
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Saw on the vodafone website that £10 top up PAYG gets you 500 mb data per month, £20 top up gets you 2GB data per month, a £30 top up gets you 4GB data per month and a £40 top up gets you 6GB of data.

It's ridiculously expensive for PAYG data with vodafone. Freedom Freebies is no substitute for hard data. Who cares about free tickets to the British grand prix at Silverstone. It will be a total disgrace if the 3GB for £15 gets replaced by 2GB for £20.

500MB (that's not even 0.5GB) for £10 is truly pathetic. Not even half the data that Virgin offer for a £10 top up is disgraceful, Freedom Freebies or not.
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Old 03-12-2014, 12:07
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And it will probably be 1GB data per month max (down from 3GB) for £15 on PAYG as well. And a price increase to boot for those PAYG customers who currently pay £10 for 1GB data per month as well.

Even less data still and much poorer signal for the same money is truly pathetic.

I hate these takeovers because it always seems to result in a worse service for the customer.
I currently pay £8 pm for 600 minutes, unlimited texts and 1Gb data on a 30 day SIM only deal I don't have any other Virgin services as I', not in an are their cable covers.
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Old 03-12-2014, 12:13
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if you sign up with Virgin then I'm sure you'll get bombarded with invitations to get other Virgin Media services if you haven't already. Now it seems every network is assuming this is the future and the way to make money, not just selling a standard phone sub.
I wonder how that'll work for the roughly half of the country that can't get Virgin cable, then.

At least I can get EE broadband/fibre or Sky TV if I wanted them
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Old 03-12-2014, 12:27
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I wonder how that'll work for the roughly half of the country that can't get Virgin cable, then.

At least I can get EE broadband/fibre or Sky TV if I wanted them
I quite often get Virgin inviting me to join and I don't have cable. They can of course provide an ADSL line to me, but it's not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination.

I do wonder why they don't do a simple post code check before writing to me (personally, at my address, not just a leaflet thrown through the door to 'the homeowner') so I have no doubt they'll be trying to sign people up to cable that don't have it, and will probably never have it!
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Old 03-12-2014, 13:52
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They can of course provide an ADSL line to me, but it's not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination.
I don't think Virgin do ADSL broadband anymore.
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Old 03-12-2014, 13:55
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I don't think Virgin do ADSL broadband anymore.
In which case there's absolutely nothing Virgin can offer me, besides a mobile phone service.
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Old 03-12-2014, 14:23
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I quite often get Virgin inviting me to join and I don't have cable. They can of course provide an ADSL line to me, but it's not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination.

I do wonder why they don't do a simple post code check before writing to me (personally, at my address, not just a leaflet thrown through the door to 'the homeowner') so I have no doubt they'll be trying to sign people up to cable that don't have it, and will probably never have it!
I don't get Virgin spam, although I did once end up on Telewest's billing system and being sent £0.00 bills because I once enquired about cable availability. No idea how that happened.

Back when Comet was around they installed a Virgin Media display next to the Sky one. In a store in a county where only one town actually has Virgin cable, and that town was about 40 or 50 miles away from the store (and about 5 miles from another Comet in a cabled city). Not sure who decided to do that but it was taken down at some point. Probably when they realised they couldn't make the TiVo box work?
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Old 04-12-2014, 11:45
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It will be really annoying if you moved from Vodafone to Virgin to get a much better service for sim only, only for you to suddenly be back with Vodafone because Virgin have struck a deal with them.
I wouldn't use either mobile networks myself.
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Old 10-12-2014, 20:01
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Well, they can't be any worse than Virgin.

Two hours today listening to that mind scrambling music, waiting for someone to take the money I tried to give them last week and they've still failed to do it.

God knows how long I'll have to wait if I'm not trying to give them money.
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Old 28-09-2015, 15:55
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No Deal

Talks have been terminated and there will be no deal.

http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/28/v...ap-terminated/
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