"alan_m" wrote in message
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On 17/11/2019 15:38, Andy Burns wrote:
Harry Bloomfield wrote:

alan_m wrote:

I keep getting bombarded with offers saying I could save perhaps £400
on their usual prices

Except I only spend £300/year in the first place

£400 over a 2 year contract

The headline saving was the cost of the box, phones (landline and mobile),
Internet and TV including premium premium packages etc.

I looked at it and assume that if I'm taking all those packages it will be
£200 a year more in year 3.

In common with BT offers, they always assumed that people wanted the sport
packages.
If virgin had planted their fibre a year before BT, rather than a year
afterwards (or strung their coax a few miles further out of the city any
time in the previous 20 years) they'd have probably got my business over
BT.

Telepest (now Virgin) did install fibre a long time before BT got around
to fibre to the cabinet. There was a lot of objections to the disruption
caused by the contractors digging up pavements and restoring them in a
**** state. In my case they sent a letter out approx 6 weeks in advance of
the work saying it would commence "sometime" in that 6 week period - that
was the only notification. I woke up late one morning to find a trench and
a pile of debris across my driveway and I couldn't get my car out!

We didn't get that when natural gas was added with no gas previously.
They jacked the pipe under the driveways. Same with the fiber added
to the capital citys.

This was followed up by cold calling foot in the door scum posing as
Telepest salespeople!