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Virgin Media might also be about to trump Vodafone, Three and O2 in launching a 4G network in the UK this year, with the mobile company said to be talking to EE about reselling its new 4G services under the Virgin brand.
Virgin Media is currently what’s known as an MVNO, a pretend mobile provider that resells capacity on the T-Mobile and Orange networks under its own name, so you’d imagine it would be pretty simple for it to start reselling EE’s 4G services under the Virgin name as well, whenever EE gets around to launching its LTE network in the UK.
Virgin’s previously tested LTE on a small scale itself, hooking 4G radios into part of its existing cable network to provide some urban test zones, although news that it’s planning to use EE’s LTE network presumably means it out of the running in terms of actually entering the 4G auction itself and buying up some LTE spectrum. [MacWorld]
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This is interesting, i’ve been thinking of moving from sky to Virgin, if they do me an all in one Broadband, TV, Landline & 4G Mobile package for the right price, i’m in. Good Bye Sky, Good By O2, all with Virgin.
Ahh Landlines.. When the hell are they going to die out?
We only have it so the Mother In Law can call, she doesn’t hold with these new fangled mobiles, because Virgin is Cable Broadband we may just drop the landline all together.
You’ll still have the landline – it’s all bundled together anyway! Plus it means you can ditch that god-awful Sky+HD box for TiVo
tivo is the main draw, but the two things that have been holding me back are the price and the Channel count, Sky wins on both, but if i can get my iPhone 5 from virging, with the 4G & Tivo & fast Boradband for less than £80 then i’m in, maybe, i tend to change my mind an awful lot then do nothing.
What channels are you feeling you’re missing from VM that you already have on Sky?
I doubt you’ll see an iPh5, but there’s nothing to say you can’t get it SIM-free and buy the phone outright from Apple.
The Kraken likes a lot of these Discovery Time & Leasure, Discovery cooking, Discovery Tentacled Monsters of the Deep type channels, she’s addicted to Biggest Loser, at one time she was filling the Sky+ box up with Biggest Loser USA, Australia, UK & South Africa, i had to put my foot down, it was constant as there are often repeated series on the lesser channells and current series on the flagship ones, i’[ve limited her to 2 at a time now, she didnt like it, swallowed me whole she did, but spat me out again in time for dinner, she doesn’t cook see.
But yeah, Random crap that she loves, all the Obscure Discovery channels that i love, mostly we watch BBC to be fair so maybe, just maybe.
“Discovery Tentacled Monsters of the Deep type channel” – or the family channel as she calls it
Yes, its a channel sky created just for her, she kept on eating the executives. I’m missed that little penguin shaped patch of blue sky thinking Darrell!
You should be able to see a channel listing, I’m fairly sure most of them are there. Plus you can just set one wishlist for Biggest Loser across every channel and tell it to keep a max of 5 episodes at once
I’m a Virgin broadband and landline customer. We had Virgin TV a few months ago but found it to be so utterly slow and convoluted we returned it. I personally thought it wasn’t worth the effort, and it’s certainly not better than Sky. In any case I get everything I watch from Free to air channels and ‘on demand’ via the internet.
I’d be interested in Virgin 4G and a 4G mobile phone, perhaps on contract. It would make sense to add it to my bundle. The only question here is will Virgin get any of the flagship handsets? I think not, and this will end up being a sim only option. Which is better than nothing I guess.
you would be suprised fella, we have the s3 and getting the iphone in January. Personally im holding out for the lumia 920
Spatchmo – I work for Virgin Media Loyalty, if you are interested i can get you Virgin services at a much better price than advertised online. Drop me an email if your interested lee.jones12@virginmedia.co.uk
If they’re just reselling EE, are they guaranteed to be more expensive than them then?
Anyways, it might not be so soon now
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5524658c-03d5-11e2-9675-00144feabdc0.html
For those without FT subscriptions:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/broadband/9562792/Fears-over-4G-delays-with-legal-talks-in-the-balance.html
Everything Everywhere is such a con.
£25-£46 a month for 250MB-3GB.
So you go to 4G to not be able to use it because you hit your cap faster so you just turn it off all the time.
I’ll stick with Three thanx to which I can already stream BBC iPlayer, download movies in 10 mins and have free tethering all from £35 a month UNLIMITED DATA.
That’s if you’re with Orange and switch over, if you’re with tmobile you get unlimited data which is good at least from £36 a month. So hopefully that’ll translate to EE too, if they end up data capping it then it’s useless.