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Virgin Mobile has NO business arsing about with Mobile Broadband
Published by Ewan on Wednesday 1st October 2008, 09:20 Comments | Filed under: Operators

I see that Virgin Media/Mobile has launched a Mobile Broadband dongle.

They have NO business doing this.

No business at all.

THIS from a company that charges 0.5 pence per Kb for mobile data to handsets.

THIS from a company that still has ‘SEE ABOVE FOR WAP CHARGES‘ on it’s tariff page.

WAP charges?

Virgin Mobile is stuck in the dark ages. Clearly if you’re using Virgin Mobile, you don’t use the internet on-the-go. Or if you do, you’re a total numbskull.

You can get 3GB on a mobile dongle from Virgin for £15/month.

Pay As You Go will set you back FIVE FLOCKING POUNDS per megabyte. PER MEGABYTE!

Pay Monthly (or all the other bollocks price plans that they offer — Daily Bonus, Pay By Direct Debit, Liberty SIM) is TWO FLOCKING POUNDS per megabyte.

No business. NO BUSINESS whatsoever coming to market with a mobile broadband dongle.

Get your mobile data tariffs sorted first.

THEN come back and we’ll have a chat. Right?

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  • Is there something hidden about this offer that I've missed? £15/month on other networks gets you more bandwidth - why would anyone go for Virgin Mobile here?

    3 keeps doing deals for half price mobile broadband too, which is a big difference to the above.
  • Ouch - a raw nerve there.

    See your point this - this is a joke. Lets see if your rant is picked up by them!

    Watching with interest.
  • njar
    still need to get back to you on that email.... Australian data charging being fairly high on the agenda. For an internet dongle I've gone prepay largely as the excess fees are so worrying.

    Virgin Australia, call 'Bill Shock'; 'Bill Rage'.. You have to give them some credit for this at least :)
  • Do Virgin actually have their own network or are they piggy backing off someone else??

    K
  • Is it still T-Mobile? I can't remember if they did a merry-go-round to
    Orange or o2...

    2008/10/1 Disqus <>
  • njar
    defintely still T-Mobile..
  • squawkBOX
    I believe it is still T-Mobile...
  • JamesVincent
    That just wrong. I think they should pack up from here in the UK or get their own Network.
    WAP!
    WAP! Oh My...

    And Yes, Still T-Mobile. About 2 years ago they re-newed their Contract with the Network to use them for another 10 years.
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