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Theo Markettos Theo Markettos is offline
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Default (OT sorry) Virgin Media Tariff Oddity.

dennis@home wrote:
Its a marketing ploy..
They want you to use all their services so they can make more cash.
The phone service is actually a cheap thing to supply and people pay quite
a bit to use it so profits are high.


They advertise the line rental as relatively inexpensive (when you tot up
the bundle prices) but fail to mention that their call charges are really
high. And since they say you're paying '12.99' for the line rental, they
want to encourage you to cease your BT line to 'save money', when in fact if
you use the phone much it'll cost a packet in calls.

32p/min to Three mobile anyone? Calling from BT is 13p/min.

Theo