Rubbish Virgin Service
Keith
assistance button on the customer services help page to chat to tech reps
seems to be missing.Cant contact them by e mail as when you click on send
nothing happens.God I thought Plusnet was poor for customer service but
Virgin seem to be even worse.It looks like the service has gone tits up
since the tie up with NTL.For anyone thinking about moving to Virgin from
another provider think again.As soon as my contract is up in 9 months I'm
off back to Plusnet
Alex Brown
>Trying to contact Virgin re poor connection speeds and the remote
>assistance button on the customer services help page to chat to tech reps
>seems to be missing.
Strange - not that close to the ADSL side of the business (but know
people who are) so can't comment in any great depth, but if you want
to drop me an e-mail with details etc I'll see if I can get someone to
help.
From: address is valid.
Cheers
Alex
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Alex Brown
Senior Product Manager
Product Management, Virgin Media
Eeyore
Keith wrote:
> As soon as my contract is up in 9 months I'm off back to Plusnet
Can't you think of a better ISP ?
Graham
kraftee
Steve Terry
"Keith" <k...@fsmail.net> wrote in message
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early evening, but late evening i get around 6 Mbps, and it allows me to use
NTLs news.ntli.net free newsserver, which i'm using now.
Steve Terry
2de
"Alex Brown" <alex_...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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Well Alex,
I'm peed off with being forced to ring an 0870 number ( which is chargeable
to my NTL (Vrigin media) account as a non-geographic number - excluded by
my 24/7 talk package thru NTL/Vrigin Media) when my query could easily be
dealt with by email at no cost to me but all I get is a fob off to my emails
inanely citing the whole of the DPA 1998 as the excuse for not dealing with
me by email.
Below is the load of nonsense that I get from the enqu...@ntlfreedom.com
addy when I ask them why I'm still paying £24.49 pcm for a 1 MB ADSL NTL
Freedom product which Vrigin media (NTL as now absorbed) currently sell
identically at £19.99 pcm with speeds upto 8MB if line supports :-
"Dear Mr ======
Thanks for your email.
Unfortunately we are unable to disclose any account-specific information via
email due to the Data Protection Act 1998.
If you'd like to call our customer support line, please use the following
number:
08700 151515 (8am - 8pm Mon - Fri & 9am - 6pm Sat and Sun)
Calls to this number are charged at national rate.
Many Thanks,
Freedom Support Team"
My point therefore being that now I'm a Vrigin Media customer, my package
should cost me 19.99 pcm and with the top speed my line supports upto 8MB -
and I'm blowed if I'm gonna hang on an 0870 line for an age discussing this
with Vrigin/NTL.
(Unless of course anyone's got a geographic for 08700 151515? Nothing that I
could find on SAYNOTO0870).
Scrooge Chris
Mike
"Steve Terry" <g4...@tesco.net> wrote in message
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evening. I am 400 metres from exchange but neighbour with BT a mile away
gets about 7Mbps most of the time. I signed up for option 1 with Virgin a
couple of months ago after being with NTL dialup for a good few years. Only
giving it a few more weeks before biting the financial bullet and moving to
BT unless anyone can advise me of a better all in package. Not that I am a
fan of BT with their call centres but they are giving a far better service
than Virgin just now.
Mick
Cullen Skink
> afternoon/
> early evening, but late evening i get around 6 Mbps, and it allows me
> to use
> NTLs news.ntli.net free newsserver, which i'm using now.
Is it better than text.news.virgin.net?
inbits
news:Kb4Ah.12222$z54....@newsfe3-gui.ntli.net...
> I'm peed off with being forced to ring an 0870 number
Just the point I made a few days ago to a Virgin rep, their cock-up meant
they had mischarged me which I was lucky enough to notice. A call to 0870
number and apologies recieved. Fairy nuff, refund letter received several
days later stating cheque enclosed........er letter enclosed but no cheque.
Hence another call to 0870 number to point out mischarged in the first
placed and now having to pay, by ringing 0870, for another Virgin mistake.
Grrrrrrrrr.
Sean
Steve Terry
"Cullen Skink" <wand...@SOMETHINGFISHYtalk21.com> wrote in message
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text.news.virgin.net is one of them, they do not all have
the same performance
Steve Terry
Eeyore
kraftee wrote:
Definitely not that one.
Graham
Burton Bradstock
Keith wrote:
>For anyone thinking about moving to Virgin from
>another provider think again. As soon as my contract is up in 9 months I'm
>off back to Plusnet
Are you sure you want to do this?
See the thread of 12 Feb entitled "What Has Hapened To Broadband Plus
At Peak Times?" from the PN Support Team in PN's customer.feedback
usergroup for more information.
To whet your appetite:
"If you are a Broadband Plus user you should expect to see some level
of slowdowns at peak times in these circumstances even after the new
capacity is added."
NoNeedToKnow
>See the thread of 12 Feb ... from the PN Support Team in PN's
>customer-feedback usergroup for more information.
Others might want to read/discuss it on the PUG Forum - see
<http://usergroup.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,4327.0.html>
as this would affect customers on Force 9 and Free-Online too.
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Join team UK-24x7 (position 135) Let's beat "Italy" :->
Change to DSL Max the way I did: switch ISP <http://www.dslmax.info/>
Cullen Skink
Thanks, will give it a try.
Mark McIntyre
<m...@privacy.net> wrote:
>I'm peed off with being forced to ring an 0870 number ( which is chargeable
>to my NTL (Vrigin media) account as a non-geographic number -
Its a fair point, but how many ISPs still run a freefone helpdesk?
After all, it costs money to pay staff. And while we might complain
about the quality of said staff, perhaps thats what we should expect
for no pounds and nothingpence.
>when my query could easily be
>dealt with by email at no cost to me but all I get is a fob off to my emails
>inanely citing the whole of the DPA 1998 as the excuse for not dealing with
>me by email.
I agree its often a fob-off; but DPA aside, your email can trivially
be faked and I guess you would not want your isp, bank or power
company to act on a fake mail.
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Mark McIntyre
BJt...@the.controls
>
<snip>
>
>Well Alex,
>
>I'm peed off with being forced to ring an 0870 number ( which is chargeable
>to my NTL (Vrigin media) account as a non-geographic number - excluded by
>my 24/7 talk package thru NTL/Vrigin Media) when my query could easily be
>dealt with by email at no cost to me but all I get is a fob off to my emails
>inanely citing the whole of the DPA 1998 as the excuse for not dealing with
>me by email.
>
>Below is the load of nonsense that I get from the enqu...@ntlfreedom.com
>addy when I ask them why I'm still paying £24.49 pcm for a 1 MB ADSL NTL
>Freedom product which Vrigin media (NTL as now absorbed) currently sell
>identically at £19.99 pcm with speeds upto 8MB if line supports :-
>
>"Dear Mr ======
>
>Thanks for your email.
>
>Unfortunately we are unable to disclose any account-specific information via
>email due to the Data Protection Act 1998.
>
>If you'd like to call our customer support line, please use the following
>number:
>
>08700 151515 (8am - 8pm Mon - Fri & 9am - 6pm Sat and Sun)
You could always try 01256.752000 or 0845.4540000 and ask for Home
Customer Service.
There's also the sales number at 0800.1830123 - apparently they will
put you through to CM support if you have a fault.
cheers
BJ