Virgin Media will cut 2,200 jobs

Ouch. I guess all the big companies are cutting jobs now... it must be the new thing.

Oh bugger! Thing is Virgin has a much nicer public image than Sky and more content than Freeview, we're likely to go with them when me and the girlfriend get a place together.

Hope the service doesn't falter and hope those 2,200 get jobs swiftly.

raggedjimmi said:

Oh bugger! Thing is Virgin has a much nicer public image than Sky and more content than Freeview, we're likely to go with them when me and the girlfriend get a place together.

Hope the service doesn't falter and hope those 2,200 get jobs swiftly.

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I wouldn't suggest it, I've found Virgin to be bandwidth nit pickers, if you so happen to go over 350mb downloads a week, you get limited to 512k, then over another limit (that I haven't worked out), you get put to just over dial up speeds. Virgin are horrific for customer service too, very rude and obnoxious.

Schtumple said:

I wouldn't suggest it, I've found Virgin to be bandwidth nit pickers, if you so happen to go over 350mb downloads a week, you get limited to 512k, then over another limit (that I haven't worked out), you get put to just over dial up speeds. Virgin are horrific for customer service too, very rude and obnoxious.

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You'd be insanely f***ed then if you played World of WarCraft.

edesignuk said:

They're not nitpicking, and the extent of "capping" isn't down to chance. Their throttling policy has been around for quite a while and is documented.

"Traffic management".

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I didn't say the capping was down to chance I'm just saying their bandwidth policy isn't exactly great and that the connection isn't reliable.

I know that it's been that way a while, we've been with them a while... we're waiting to jump ship once the contracts up...

Hopefully BT will be more reliable.

EDIT: I didn't know they finally put up the actual amounts you need to download before you get capped, that's handy.

ReanimationLP said:

You'd be insanely f***ed then if you played World of WarCraft.

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A few nights of xbox live and general internet browsing is easily enough to push it over...

Then I'll stick to Freeview and one of them godly awesome lesser-known ISPs who are friendly to pirates (not that I'm a pirate, but I do a lot of iPlayer and online gaming).

I love how cutting jobs to ensure future earnings basically just means the remaining employees workload just doubled without a raise.

FrankieTDouglas said:

I love how cutting jobs to ensure future earnings basically just means the remaining employees workload just doubled without a raise.

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