Significant discount for 50 Mbps connections
Virgin Media, in a recent announcement, has brought about significant discounts in their 50 Mbps broadband package, meaning that unlike most other broadband providers, high – speed internet doesn’t have to come with a high price as well.
New customers enrolling in the UK with Virgin Media will only be charged a mere £18 per month for the first 3 months of their subscription in order to access the high speed XXL 50 Mbps package, though users will have to pay through Direct Debit or eBilling.
Access to this top speed internet broadband package will also entail users having to subscribe for the £11 per month virgin phone line service and, after the promotional 3 month period, the cost of the package will increase to a nominal 28 pounds monthly.
If new customers do not require the Virgin phone line, then they can choose not to take up the offer and can still be up for the 50 Mbps service. However, the promotional price of the service for the first 3 months increases to 33 pounds monthly and then 38 pounds after the expiration of the promotional period.
All broadband packages being offered by Virgin Media also come with a free modem as well as a Wireless N router, free PCGuard Total, free installation, 100 free photo prints every month, unlimited storage space on their network and automatic backup. Virgin Media also offers the best downlink and uplink speed currently available in the UK regardless of the chosen package.
This promotional deal from Virgin, according to an industry expert, provide amazing value for money with the best speed possible. For people who download a lot or stream TV or music through iPlayer or Spotify, this deal should be hard to resist!
Virgin Media is currently working on launching a new broadband service which should enables its users to have downlink speeds of about 200 Mbps and is putting in a lot of effort to ensure that a lot of subscribers get onto their 50 Mbps package before they roll the 200 Mbps package out.
Excessively high demand for Virgin ADSL services
Reports in recent times have indicated that the demand for consumer ADSL services which were re – launched by Virgin Media is too high. This has resulted in delays for users who want to sign up to these services.
A recent report also mentioned that customers who want to sign up for the re – launched ADSL broadband service might have to be ready for some delays due to the extremely high number of customers that are attempting to sign up for this service. Virgin is providing this service for people who don’t live in their cable coverage area but who would like to experience a broadband bundle with television, broadband and telephone services.
Virgin has claimed that there has been a rise in the demand for their service, with a number of customers wanting to leave from BT and make use of the Virgin ADSL service, thus enabling them to have the same provider for their phone, television and broadband service. However, this has resulted in delays for the many people who want to take advantage of this service. The company has gone on a promotional drive for their relaunched service throughout August, saying that they are capable of offering 20 Mbps connections and their own phone line rental.
In a recent interview, an official from Virgin Media said that since the re-launch of the National service with line rental and their promise of Best Speed, they have been receiving a large number of new orders, which has resulted in some delays in enabling customers to use their super – fast ADSL broadband services.
He also mentioned that they have solved the problems of modem stock and they are working at full – capacity to ensure that customers gets connected as soon as possible. He also apologized for the delays and inconveniences that customers are facing.
Virgin and Vodafone declared fastest broadband providers
During the second annual Top 10 Broadband Awards, both Virgin Media and Vodafone were among the broadband internet service providers given the highest citations.
Apart from ranking among the top ten, Virgin Media was also awarded as the Broadband Innovation Prize for its 50Mb product. Vodafone on the other hand was cited to have the Best Rated Mobile Broadband as it topped in popularity ratings of customers.
The Top 10 Broadband Awards were based on the 1.5 million customer ratings and over 400,000 speed tests on the award-giving body’s official website.
Cinching the Best Value Home Broadband citation was Plusnet, a considerably small ISP that offers value package with more-than-sufficient speed for much affordable cost. Other internet service providers who were awarded were 02 for its Best Rated Home Broadband, and the Best Value Mobile Broadband was awarded to 3 for its market-topping dongle which currently offers the low-cost £15 per month for usage of 15GB.
It was an awards night to remember for TalkTalk as well as they walked away with the Best Broadband and Phone. Talktalk’s essential package paved way for the said citation they got.
On the other hand, the Best Broadband and TV award was won by Sky, beating their strongest competition in the category, Virgin Media and BT.
With all these diverse direction of the awards, director of Top 10 Broadband Alex Buttle said the London ceremony was not dominated by a single broadband internet provider. Buttle continued to say that the past year bore witness to the major shifts in the broadband industry.
The Top 10 Broadband director saw this distribution of citations as a sign that most UK residents and subscribers, including businesses, are getting more reliable choices for broadband connections. Buttle closed his statement saying the awards ceremony solidifies the strong competition within the broadband market this year.
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Virgin Broadband Media Services finding it difficult to cope with customer volumes
In order to streamline its non – cable services with that of the other providers in terms of packages being offered, a recent report has said that Virgin Media has drawn up new plans for the ADSL services that it provides.
The line rental option, which was available only for cable customers, will be available for ADSL customers as well as an upping of the connection speeds to 20 Mbps. This is being done by Virgin Media. Until recent times, Virgin Media has not given ADSL its full attention even though they only have a 50% coverage of the population with the cable services. However, the provision of ADSL services would make it possible to cover at least 98% of the country.
However, a note was made that the extremely high level of delay were being experienced by people who were moving to the ADSL service, said a Virgin Media spokesman.
The spokesman added that since the re – launch of the National service with line rental and with the promise of the best speed available, they have had a large number of orders. This has resulted in some delays in moving customers to the ADSL broadband service.
Customers who have been waiting for a long time to get their router have been told that they will get their router as soon as problems in acquiring these routers have been solved, the spokesman said.
The spokesman continued by saying that they have solved the problems of modem stock and are working at full capacity in order to allow customers to get their service as soon as possible. They also apologized for all delays that customers have had to face due to these problems.
Virgin is known for offering the best connection speeds when compared to the top providers and is also notable for being one of the few providers to provide line rental and broadband on the very same bill, meaning that this news is a real dampener.
