Does anyone know if I need a BT Landline if I buy the Virgin Media Pack?
Take a look at http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/help/newcustomer.html.
Actually I found it earlier and didn't say anything Thanks for caring anyways . Now the problem is geting my debit card
I am on virgin media, and I would not recommened using them, they are a company spawned from the bowls of satan himself. I've had so many problems with virgin, even to the point of them sending debt collectors after me for bills that I have paid (even though I had already sent them hard, physical proof from my bank that I had paid the bill weeks and weeks before, and they had responded telling me that I was right and everything was fine, but still the debt collectors and angry bill demands would come...).
They have, in the past, over-charged me too. If you pay by direct debit, be careful, as my bill was 25 quid, but slowly, over a few months, it mysteriously went up to 26, then 27 and so on, with no explanation as to why the bill was getting more expensive. I unfortunantly am still under contract with them, but it ends in a couple months, so I will be switching to someone else.
You only need a land-line from BT if you have a non-cable service. In which case, BT will give you a whole other layer of non-sense on-top. BT has to be one of the worst run/managed companies on this fine Earth of ours. Fun fun.
-Adam
Didn't VM get a feature on BBC1's Watchdog this week? Something about continuing to bill people who had died despite being shown the death certificates - allegedly - if I remember it correctly?
Yep, that sounds like BT. But I assure you, Virgin are worse. BT may be crap at dealing with your problems and generally be like banging your head against a brick wall, but at least they don't steal from you, or harrass you.
-Adam
Yea, seems a bit slow. Think when I had our last line put in it was a lot quicker than that, but I guess it depends where you live. You're in london aren't you? I guess in london there is a lot more people to service so it'll be slower, I'm a little ways out of london out in oxford, so it's probably faster for me.
Do you actually have cable access where you are or do you have to get a phone line anyway? I'd still advise not using virgin as they are the company-manifestation of the ebola virus. The only really good thing about using BT is that you can choose from a lot of different net providers, I think sky is supposedly very good from what I've heard, but it might be a good idea to search around on the web to see what deals you can get.
Maybe one day wireless/mobile web will pick up a bit more, and they'll make a wireless router with a mobile dongle built in, so I can become completly detached from BT and other such companies. Hopefully that'd spell the end of BT, as people would no-longer require a land line for anything, and we can all be free. Or at least until the mobile companies start ripping us all off in the same way...
-Adam
I personally recommend O2 or BE for residential ADSL
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