Soldato
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See Virgin Media and 02 are merging,Unsure if this will be a good or bad thing,Will we see yet more price rises now 02 also has a say in it..already paying more than enough
See Virgin Media and 02 are merging,Unsure if this will be a good or bad thing,Will we see yet more price rises now 02 also has a say in it..already paying more than enough
Hard to say, perhaps a good thing reading they want to reduce operating costs down 6b by year 5. It may help to be more competitive with their pricing model.
It's a wait and see I guess!
They'll just sack people and increase their profits because of lower overheads. They won't be lowering prices. I'd be surprised if the regulator allows it to happen given they blocked an Asda/Sainsburys merger last year.
What worries me is if Virgin do to O2 what they have already done with Virgin Mobile now - move all their call centres offshore. This seems to be a common tactic with Virgin and it riles me so much as I like to speak to somebody who doesn't strangle conversations with their language barrier. I dread the days of dealing with script monkeys if Virgin Media call centres are anything to go by.Hard to say, perhaps a good thing reading they want to reduce operating costs down 6b by year 5. It may help to be more competitive with their pricing model.
It's a wait and see I guess!
Why wouldn't they allow it? They allowed BT to buy EE which is one of Virgin's and O2's reasoning for doing this.
It's why I don't agree with Ofcom when they talk about how many hundreds of ISPs there are in the UK - there might be hundreds of people you can pay a bill to, but there's about five different physical infrastructure providers and in many areas you have a choice of using one of them.
Agreed on that point - I am stuck with virgin broadband for that reason! With mobile however I would argue that where the network is working it is good competition to have piggy-back options. Virgin offer the EE network for much better prices. A win-win. With the switch of network some of my family will have to switch as the O2 network is woeful where they live. I remember visiting when I used tesco mobile back in the student days and you couldn't get a text message - except for walking out of the house and going to the end of the drive. So they will have to switch to EE, being the only network with signal there. Hello price hikes! Competition is best with each network having at least one piggy-back alternative. Then you really can choose infrastructure and pricing.
Nope.Anyone lost their broadband connection? Mines been down since about 4..:/