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AArdvark:
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Which is why you usually pay for it. Captive market !!!. [TT are using it as a enticement to go with them]
Allow anyone to 'mass market' to your customers or so they say !!. Make money. Ka-Ching ;D
Thought process: If you want to deal with all the marketing and scam calls you have got to 'cross my palm with silver' Ka-ching. ;D
Laugh all the way to the bank. [Don't get me started on the Banks ...... >:( ;D )
oldfogy:
Well so-far since contacting them I haven't had any more calls from them, but now the caller ID is free I have bought one of those call number blockers from ebay, the price was not to bad compared with some of them '£15.30 with P&P' and should be arriving tomorrow, but obviously only time will tell and we will have to wait and see.
I'm not sure although I don't think this particular one will allow me to input numbers manually, which will be a shame really because I have a small list of callers originating from asia from last year, so if and when it starts again I'll just have to wait before being able to block any-more of their calls.
It's unfortunate that the Panasonic phone quad phone set I already have does not have the call blocking facility, although I did also leave a £25 bid on a triple set of BT phones, but just been notified of being out bid.
Who knows, maybe the answer is not to ignore them at the beginning, 'even though they are such a pain in the proverbial back-side'
oldfogy:
Well I thought I would tag this onto this thread seeing as it concerns Virgin Media.
What is it they say, you get nothing for nothing.
Yesterday I received a letter from Virgin Media telling me that from February 2016 they will be increasing my monthly fee by £4.49, which will mean my basic payment goes from £26.58 to £30.80, which is just over a 17% increase.
This is for a basic internet, telephone line rental is paid annually so is not included in the above payment and my TV package is also the lowest package and was informed as it's just the basic Freeview package it is FREE, so that will make my internet £30.80 pm.
So thanks Virgin Media for the upcoming free upgrade to 75mbs but after February I doubt if it will be of any use, simply because this is one more customer you will be losing.
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Edit.
No-doubt this is the consequence of the free upgrade that I mentioned in a earlier thread.
http://forum.kitz.co.uk/index.php?topic=16348.new;topicseen#new
oldfogy:
Well that's it, signed, sealed, and now just waiting for delivery on 11th January 2016.
Yes GOODBYE Virgin Media and hello TalkTalk.
With Virgin Media's proposed increase in February it would have meant my monthly bill was a minimum of £44.73 against my new bill of just £21.45. (both included 24/7 free calls to 01 & 02 numbers)
Yes I know the BB is not the same or maybe even anywhere near as fast but I do not need VMs speed any longer.
On a slightly different note, I found yesterday 'by accident' that Virgin Media has included a few more extra channels, no doubt just for the holiday period as they do from time-to-time, but annoyingly they never inform anyone when they do such things, maybe they could have let people know when they sent out the email notifying us that our bill was ready, but no, they can't be bothered.
burakkucat:
Just wondering which type of broadband service you have taken. ADSL2+ or VDSL2 based? :-\
I have had a TT service for over eight & a half years and have no cause to consider "going elsewhere". :)
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