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[tuftedduck]

Have this am received a letter from Virgin Media advising me that as of 15th. October 2011 my VM National ( adsl bb only ) service charge will increase by £5.00 per month.

Presumably their other tariffs will increase in line with that.

 

[roseway]

That's a large increase. It rather suggests that they don't want to keep their ADSL customers (which may well be the case).

[silversurfer44]

I agree Roseway, that is one massive rise.
Hopefully you have an alternative tuftedduck.

[tuftedduck]

Have just looked out my current agreement with VM...........the current rate is for me is £18.35 pm ( did not realise it was as high as that), and it will be going to £23.35 pm from October.
At that level of cost I would certainly be better switching to the likes of Zen.......where I suspect I would get my full money's worth.

I could go to an all round cheaper source, but I would think that most ISP's will want a price hike soon.......where to go ?   

edit to add............

@ roseway. You are probably correct. I quote from the letter.....

quote " Of course, if you'd like to move to another broadband company, we'll be sorry to see you go, but we'll do everything we can to make sure the switch goes smoothly"

[AdrianH]

I like my Xilo LLU it's been superb for well over 12 months now.

[roseway]

Perhaps you should consider Good Honest Broadband from Yorkshire.

[silversurfer44]

Enough said then tuftedduck.

That's not a bad idea Roseway.

[tuftedduck]

@ AdrianH ........no LLU operators in my exchange, unfortunately.

@ roseway and ss44.........would have to brush up on my Yorkshire translations for that ( Wonder where I could get some lessons... ... )

The search for an ISP starts here !

[silversurfer44]

UncleUB will be along shortly.

[AdrianH]

@ AdrianH ........no LLU operators in my exchange, unfortunately.

They do BT services too      stickum number in here >> https://my.xilo.net/adslcheck.php to see what is available.

[tuftedduck]

Ooooo...so they do, thanks AdrianH for the heads up......reasonable prices too..

[UncleUB]

@ roseway and ss44.........would have to brush up on my Yorkshire translations for that ( Wonder where I could get some lessons... ... )

Nah then TD,I can ere commotion reight darn 'ill. 

You should get the 3rd book in the series...........Werz Me Broadband 

Right then........iirc correctly,no LLU for TD,his exchange is Market 1 ,and he lives quite close to the exchange (caretaker close) 

I would still be inclined to go with Zen(great support)  closely followed by Newnet

[burakkucat]

Looking at what Uncle has written --

Right then........iirc correctly,no LLU for TD,his exchange is Market 1 ,and he lives quite close to the exchange (caretaker close) 

-- why not consider the Evil Empire itself, BT retail? (Please don't waste your time throwing old boots at me . . . you'll more likely than not miss! ) If TD is that close to the exchange, I would expect that he will obtain pretty much the maximum sync speed for the line.

[UncleUB]

Looking at what Uncle has written --

Right then........iirc correctly,no LLU for TD,his exchange is Market 1 ,and he lives quite close to the exchange (caretaker close) 

-- why not consider the Evil Empire itself, BT retail? (Please don't waste your time throwing old boots at me . . . you'll more likely than not miss! ) If TD is that close to the exchange, I would expect that he will obtain pretty much the maximum sync speed for the line.

BT is fine .....until the word support crops up,then you are diverted to the sub continent(say no more) 

[tuftedduck]

@ unkyUb.........thank you for the quick lesson in Yorkshirese...........still don't understand a word of it...

@ burakkucat .........BT  .......a trawl through this thread http://forum.kitz.co.uk/index.php/topic,9154.0.html will illustrate how BT treats it's customers in this village.