Internet/TV provider advice, please

[Busterboo]

Our Virgin cable/broadband/TV/phone cable has crept up, increase by increase, to £91 a month. The broadband is fast - 100+ - double other providers', but I can live with 50.

Is there a provider who will take over the cable for a more reasonable price, please?

[greg81]

Phone them up, tell them you're leaving and they'll halve your bill

[PDJ]

Call 150 from your Virgin Media phone or mobile, or
call 0345 454 1111 * from any other phone

Doing this right now will let you know how I get on

I have two accounts one in Manchester and one in Cleethorpes so it is a double hit for me.

[Bing]

My Virgin is going up in November, end of an introductory offer, going up to £84 from £57. Which is still way cheaper than I was paying with BT for broadband and Sky for tv - they came in at £135 a month

Problem is, I don’t think there is anyone who will take over your fibre itself so you will be back to broadband over a telephone line. Unless you go full Sky (which I didn’t want as I’d lose BT Sport for rugby unless I paid £30/month extra), you’ll end up with two new providers who will do a deal for 12/18 months and then also hike their prices. I haven’t looked at the market in detail for a year, so there may be great deals out there, but for me it was a huge faff and risk changing away from 2 providers so as long as it’s under £100/month I’m sticking.

All that said, call them as above and see what they can do, or check out usual places like moneysavingexpert for th beets deals.

[ph001]

Virgin broadband is great but all their other services are a rip off. My advice would be to keep the cable internet but ditch everything else. Should get your bill down to £30 ish a month. Then just get a smart tv with the freeview etc built in or buy a dongle for your existing.

[PDJ]

Well got the Manchester account back down which I have had for 3 years down from 37.20 to just under £23 for Internet only at 100mbps

The Cleethorpes one I have had for over 22 years is standard price only and stays at £42 with the same 100mbps and a phone line, the could not do broadband only at the same price or so they say will ring back next week and see if the offers have changed.

[Nictrix]

Get one of these
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