Virgin spent 20mins today trying to convince me that if I get all 3 (tv, bb and telephone) they would be cheaper. They even went as far as lying and saying BT linerental is increasing and will be £14 in April.
Oh boy did they pick the wrong person to try and convince lol. After I explained that their 3 deal bundle was just basic stuff like basic TV and line rental only. When you factor in unlimited plan on linerental, a broadband speed that wouldnt be lower (even after their traffic management) than what I get now, it actually worked out more expensive.
Then Virgin disppeared for few minutes and came back with reductions/retention deals they could give me and even then were expensive.
I then asked what could they do if I toot TV and landline with them and kept broadband with current ISP (as they were cheaper by far) and this turned out to be about £3 cheaper with Virgin.
Then I said well BT do free caller display and include calls to 0845/0870 numbers for which he paused and said have you tried the site
www.saynoto0870.com. When questioned why they just dont drop the price of their 0845/0870 calls to a more reasonable price (I realise it's probably not possible for Virgin to include these calls without losing more revenue than BT would), he declined to comment.
The moral of this is despite VirginMedia being one of the most expensive providers of calls to 0845/0870 and have obviously had many people complain they just cant afford (I assume) to reduce the cost of these calls and therefore the majority of their customers probably get told to see this site when they complain about 0845/0870 but still refuse to reduce these costs for those that havent complained and just "pay the bill" regardless upon arrival. These people probably dont even know just how much it costs to these numbers from VirginMedia.
I bet you even OfcoN use this site to avoid these stealth premium rate calls but yet dont want to do anything about them!