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Virgin Media - Review
Up to 50Mb at £28/month (Free for 2 Months)

  Virgin Media
 
Key features:
Virgin Media is the new Digital TV, Broadband, Home and Mobile Phone company from Richard Branson.

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Virgin Media Broadband L: Get up to 10Mb download, 4 sec. to download a music track, PC Guard Total and a Free wireless router for £15 a month
Virgin Media Broadband XL: Get up to 20Mb download, 2 sec to download a music track, PC Guard Total and a Free wireless router for £20 a month
Virgin Media Broadband XXL: Get up to 50Mb download, 1 sec to download a music track, PC Guard Total and a Free wireless router for £50 a month
Unlimited downloads*
Rates for the first 6 months, £20 a month after that**
Rates for the first 6 months, £35 a month after that***
Virgin Media provides Broadband connects at excellent speeds. We assure you our 10 Mb speed is at least twice more fast than BT, Tiscali and Orange on comparison with download speeds on an average. You will enjoy downloading photos, films and music at really low prices and great speeds.

Virgin Media Summary:
Current online offer: Up to 50Mb at £28/month (Free for 2 Months)
Our overall rating: * * * * *
Visit website for more information:
Upto 10mb Broadband for £15 (Free for 2 months)
Upto 20mb Broadband for £20 (Free for 2 months)
Upto 50mb Broadband for £28 (Free for 2 months)
Broadband + Phone +Digital TV + Mobile at £28
a month (Free for 2 months)

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Advantages:
Unlimited downloads**
Truly Economical
Allows you to download movies, music tracks and photos
10Mb fiber optic enables fast speeds
Base price begins at £5 a month
Disadvantages:
The 50 Mb Broadband package is available at few select places
 

Our Review

Let's be honest, it was going to happen eventually. Richard Branson is taking on the biggest of them all Sky with his new venture Virgin Media.

Virgin Media is aggressively competing with its competitors. Virgin Media Broadband packages are too good to be refused. You can very expect such deals from Richard Branson, one of the most dashing entrepreneurs in UK. In such recessionary times of today, such broadband deals not only allow you to save a lot of money but also serve the purpose.

Virgin Media can offer you:
  • With a 10 Mb fiber optic you get exceptionally great speed
  • Downloading your favorite films, music tracks and photos becomes a speedier task.
  • The 50 Mb package is most preferred and along with comes a super sleek and state of art modem, a wireless N router and adaptor
    too.
  • With Virgin Broadband connection, you can also go in for a wireless broadband or a wi-fi which allows you to get internet access everywhere and anywhere you go. You can use it at home for a wire free internet connection or your laptop making your life truly easier.

  • * Please note that these packages are only available on cable packages
    ** Acceptable usage policy applies.


    Latest Customer Reviews:
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    *****  Review by sharon - 22 February 2008
    This service is rubbish. The amount of times I sit down to watch telly and the channels are unavailable. Very annoying. On demand is just a joke. I wouldn't bother....
    *****  Review by pat d. - 16 February 2008
    Broadband is great, likewise the phone, TVneeds investment in better IT. Tends to need to have the set-top box`rebooted very frequently sometimes daily when it has lost information, freezes or in some other way does not respond. The customer service has been good and average depending on the engineer. Telephone message at the start of costomer enquiries is just annoying!!
    *****  Review by Brian - 24 January 2008
    Very disappointed at the start,enginer fixed up the broadband in ten minutes. He left then it started from one helper to another,this went for approx.two hour's gave in phoned around and got a computer man in it took him twenty min. to get me up and running a cost of £30.00 well worth it to stop the worry. Since I have been on broadband its another world ,hard to explain that it is just great I shall split the rating into two parts 2 for uploading the system and 5 for the product
    *****  Review by Rodger - 21 January 2008
    I've been with Virgin for years, and although it's never been the cheapest, it has it's advantages such as Unlimited useage. I've now got Phone and Broadband bundled together, and whilst I pay for an 8Mbps service, it regularly runs like a snail. I've complained to Virgin so many times it's unbelievable, and they always ask me to jump through hoops just to prove to them that it's their problem. Even then they refuse to do anything about it. I'm in a 12 month contract which expires soon, and when it does, I'll be moving on. I don't mind paying for a good service, but I refuse to pay for a poor service and even poorer support (at Premium rate telephone). They've got worse.
    *****  Review by d marsden - 31 December 2007
    i have just got virgin media broadband two weeks ago seems slow.i need to put a wireless router on so the kids laptop can work on the net .so i whent out and got rangemax;net wireless-n cable router for cable broadband. inserted disk ERROR. NO ip address NOip subnet mask and no gateway ip address. do you think virgin media broadband has not sent me this and why
    *****  Review by Stuart Stent - 19 November 2007
    Sorry to add a sour note to the generally very enthusiastic reviews, but my experience with one of my two set top boxes has been very poor. Just had the third unit in just a few months installed. Engineer was here for nearly 1 hour (should take less than 10 mins.) Still no "On Demand" available.
    *****  Review by laura - 5 November 2007
    pleased with what virgin has to offer ALTHOUGH virgin central for some reson keeps having problems,many times i have found it difficult to access what i want to watch and other times it cuts out whilst watching it can be very frustraiting when you work and have a limited ammount of time to watch a whole series
    *****  Review by Mark W - 31 October 2007
    I have been with Virgin Media (was Eurobell) for over 4 years, from the start I had the landline, Digital TV and broadband, I can say that when things are going good the service is ace. Today I lost Broadband service (I’m an advance PC operator) so I call up to report it to Virgin Media, it was not a fault on my end as the neighbours lost there as well plus there was no signal coming to the modem box, I then get told I got to pay a premium phone no. to report a problem at Virgin Medias end, that’s bad. As I say when it going everything is good, but you have a loyal customer here who was trying to help you and report a fault of yours, and you want me to pay a premium no to report it. Some one in charge should look into this and have a separate no. to report faults at Virgin Medias end.
    *****  Review by DaphneGrant - 13 October 2007
    Virgin tries to keep us inform: that's nice I must say but I can't change my favourite I.E. where's the History channel, where is sky News Help.
    *****  Review by Richard Green - 12 September 2007
    Been with cable for 7 years + Out standing All Round
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    Our Conclusion:

    So it's Rupert Murdock vs Richard Branson. Many companies have tried taking him on before but failed. Will the people's champion Branson fair better? At these prices and with Virgin's history of excellence, quite possibly.


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    Our rating:   *****
    More information: Virgin Media: Up to 50Mb at £28/month (Free for 2 Months)
    View this and all other offers at www.virginmedia.co.uk


     

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