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Posted: 23rd Jul, 2021    By: Diddy
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Either gross incompetence or borderline fraudulent intentions: I was set up with an 18 month contract (and at a high price at that) which I never agreed to. The movers team agent confirmed I would be on a monthly rolling setup. I was also promised to have access to new customer discounts for a new contract after the move, which I didn't have access to, because all teams refused to honour the promise and would refuse ownership of a resolution. Instead I was in a catch 22 situation transferred between teams. I took 4 hours of phone calls to find out nobody would own a solution and I closed my account. Never again.


Time With Provider: 5 Years
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Posted: 10th Jul, 2021    By: jlb94
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Virgin cabled my street up about 2 years ago and I was always with Talktalk on FTTC 40/10 and 80/20, on one of their 'fixed' price plans
Saw my arse when they said they were raising prices earlier this year so signed up via a Virgin rep - deal was good and promised no set up fees and a £50 amazon voucher and £50 bill credit over the phone
First bill came with £35 set up fees, rep vanished never to answer calls or texts
Had to battle with Virgin customer services to get the set up fees waived and raised a complaint about the rep as I had never received this voucher (they said it would be emailed within two weeks of going live)
Again, battled with customer service after my complaint was 'I cannot get hold of your sales rep' to which they replied 'We won't be able to either so there is nothing we can do' - madness! In the end they did credit me with another £50 after multiple calls
The service itself is generally very good - I did buy my own router as the Hub 3 supplied has poor range and my partners iPhone constantly had issues connecting. Running the hub in modem mode and using our own router is much better. I am on the M100 package and wireless speeds are consistently above 100mbps
Cityfibre are cabling our area up in the next year or so and I think we will move to another provider when the Virgin contract is up, unless Virgin have some very strong offers.


Time With Provider: 3 Months
Package Name: M100
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Posted: 09th Apr, 2021    By: Mark Scott
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I have been with Virgin since they first enabled Cable based Internet in SN12. Currently on M500 with a 36Mb/s upload this is one of the fastest ISPs and I have been treated to a number of speed upgrades over the years.

Having an IP based phone is a pain when the service goes out but I have had roughly a single outage every year and for a home service with no SLAs to speak of, it is very reliable.

Could do with a faster upload, static IPv4 address and IPv6 connectivity but hopefully this will be forthcoming.

And look at this, I have compiled a full review without using brackets!

Time With Provider: 20 Years
Package Name: M500
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Posted: 07th Apr, 2021    By: Meatball
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Returned to VM (OR FTTP not in sight and CityFibre at least 18 months away)
CRAWLEY Area 18
Only 40% in my post code can actually order despite VM presence at 87.5% of addresses. Similar on other Post Codes/Estates.
With perseverance managed to get my address "unlocked by engineering"
Negotiated Oomph 360 TV, M350, phone and SIM for £41/m for 18 months
VM still issuing 360 package with Hub 3
Underwhelmed by 360 TV offering. Using it to record for my use but not for family.
Broadband worked OK for 2 days then lots of issues in Evenings.
Removed all equipment except Hub and one wired device.
Monitored speeds. 360/36 at night and early morning. Reduced to just over 100/35 during day. Drops to 6-8/35 Mbps in evening. Upload appears to remain consistent. All tests using VM web site version of SpeedTest.
Verified for 4 days (Router or Modem mode).
Reported fault to VM. They immediately went down the User/WIFI/Device route.
Call passed to a technical desk. Very quickly confirmed that there was "an outage" issue. Refused my explanation of a capacity issue. Expected resolution is 8 days time. Await outcome.
Update: Perseverance with VM appear to deliver. After monitoring service every day at set intervals and referral to a more technical help desk M350 now consistently above 300 and up around 35. All good lets see how long it lasts.

Time With Provider: 4 Weeks
Package Name: Oomph 360 TV, M350, Phone and 5Gb SIM
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Posted: 26th Mar, 2021    By: Adrian
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hello to all readers,
I wanted to leave a good review, but because I received a letter from bpo I can't believe how thieves I am !!! my contract was terminated for a very long time and on the contrary I told him that I don't want to continue because I am moving and I don't need it anymore. But they say one thing and do another. a few months later I woke up with direct debit payments. I called them and they said I didn't tell them to stop :))) in the end they stopped and said they would return my money ..... but from where, on the contrary, I still owe :))) and still where .... bpo collection! SHAME VIRGIN MEDIA !!!

Time With Provider: 1 Years
Package Name: virgin media
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Posted: 08th Mar, 2021    By: davidshepherd7
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I moved house and already had broadband setup in the new house. There's no way to cancel your account online so you have to call their callcenter. I tried to do that, and waited on hold for an hour only to be cut off. I tried sending a message using their complaints service but got no response there for weeks either.

Now they're still charging me for a service that I don't want but can't cancel! Ridiculous.

Time With Provider: 3 Years
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Posted: 09th Feb, 2021    By: Tony Norton
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I have been with Virgin since we moved to our present address in 2001. It was NTL in those days.
Until December 2020 I had been on the M100 package.

100Mbps download. Tick
24/7 phone calls. Tick
Limited TV, excluded the sport channels now sold to Sky and BT. Tick

I wanted to be able to watch the F1 GPs live. Virgin recommended the M200 package as, so they said, they couldn't just add the TV I wanted, and offered me an 18 month contract at £68 per month, which I accepted and was due to start on 22-12-2020.

Then it went wrong, and you can quote me, by name, on Facebook or elsewhere, please.

I have never, ever, had anything near 200Mbps. I read that the minimum guaranteed rate is 107Mbps, which is easily achievable on the 100Mbps download rate. My PC is connected via a 2 metre Ethernet Cat7 cable.

I strongly suspect that their attitude is "He only really wanted the extra TV channels so give him them, and the 20Mbps upload speed, but limit him to 100Mbps download. It will occasionally go over 107Mbps so we can claim it is within contract."

My average since 22-12-2020 is actually 96Mbps and the rate has frequently been as low as 50. My grandson is on the 350Mbps package which has yielded as high as 386Mbps. It is my firm belief (quote me) is that Virgin are ripping me off because I negotiated a lower than full rate.

I would call that thieving.

Time With Provider: 20 Years
Package Name: M200
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Posted: 24th Jan, 2021    By: Ronski
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I'm on the VM350 package, broadband only. In the three years I've had to contact support twice, on both occasions it was an absolute nightmare. I use modem mode and this only complicated matters, support is obsessed with wi-fi, and they don't understand modem mode, they think all problems are wi-fi related. When asking to be transferred to someone higher up (IE level 2 support) I got transferred to all sorts of irrelevant departments. Then you have to phone and start all over again. If you have an ongoing problem, you have to start all over again each time you ring up, support seems incapable of picking up where we left off the last time, so round and round you go.

In the end I got the problem sorted via the forums, still took a while though and more than one engineer visit - felt like the first one just went through the motions, the second guy was really good and listened.

Our area is only 3 years old, and it's all fibre, no coax, speeds are very good, I never have any slow downs.

It's just the very poor support, I'm hate the thought of having an issue and then having to phone them. The other problem is the price rises, just had a 12% rise, and in a couple of months my £15 discount ends, so it will be time to do battle for a decent price, last time I had to give 30 days notice.

Value is only good if you can negotiate a decent price, otherwise it's expensive.

Time With Provider: 3 Years
Package Name: VM350
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Posted: 21st Jan, 2021    By: Davy_Jack_
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They have an intricate web of scam artists known as customer services. You are directed to their website but there is no option to leave on the website. They will sign you up for new 12 month contracts against your explicit consent.

I am nominally on the 200 mbps package and I currently get between 8 & 13 MBPS on average, sometimes only 4.

Time With Provider: 1 Years
Package Name: VM200
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Posted: 21st Jan, 2021    By: antony_fry
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Virgin have been very unreliable from mid Nov 2020 to mid Jan 2021 with frequent instances of intermittent internet service and last night today (21/01/2021) full service loss. They are competitively priced, fairly fast I’m on an 100Mbps package but that’s down link and not guaranteed.
It’s very hard to get in touch with Customer Service and we had a message that ‘ we’re aware of a problem in the W5 area but is very complex and may take longer than usual to fix.
VM do have a number of tools (WiFi Coverage checker and network status based on postcode but very poor communication about fix times.
They only pay £8/day for complete service loss and you need to go through their complaints procedure to get any compensation for intermittent problems.

Time With Provider: 12 Months
Package Name: M100
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