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Virginmedia BB

  • 23-03-2011 12:05am
    #1
    dogpile
    Registered Users Posts: 629 ✭✭✭


    New UPC customer and very happy with it but casting envious eyes across the pond at whats available http://shop.virginmedia.com/broadband.html ...:cool:


    anyways UPC are probably the closest we'll get to that for price and product so can't complain (much)


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  • #2
    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,501 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    UPC are the closest because its the exact same technology, you also have to remember that it was also the same company not too long ago.


  • #3
    Freddie59
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭Freddie59


    interesting to see that you cannot get VM BB without the VM phone line of stg£12.99 a month, so that figure needs to be added to the sum total. Also, UK population of some 60m+. We've got 4m+. It's all down to economies of scale.


  • #4
    dpe
    Registered Users Posts: 520 ✭✭✭dpe


    Cabaal wrote: »
    UPC are the closest because its the exact same technology, you also have to remember that it was also the same company not too long ago.

    Not exactly; the quality of your experience on VM is often defined by where you live and which part of the original NTL or Telewest network you're on (and both networks are in turn a patchwork of smaller cable networks acquired by both companies). VM are getting better at bringing the whole network up to a single standard but there are still patches of crappiness and really good bits (as a rule of thumb the former Telewest areas are generally better than the NTL ones). Unfortunately I lived in a really terrible NTL cable area (in West London), and DSL was always a better option. The one area that VM have improved massively is their customer service; NTL were horrendous.


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