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I knew you lot would come in useful one day

Posted: Wed 03 Oct, 2007 19.38
by chinajan
...or am I being over confident? Prove me right.

One of you will know the answer to this. I have a Virgin Media broadband / phone / telly package. The contract has eight months to run. I'm moving into a place where cable is unavailable. In those circumstances, VM says you need a BT line to continue with your connection. But here's the thing. There is an existing BT broadband connection at the new place which will be continuing. So will they insist I have a new BT line installed separately to the existing one or make me pay out my contract if I don't / can't?

Ta in advance.

Re: I knew you lot would come in useful one day

Posted: Wed 03 Oct, 2007 19.46
by Sput
It might have changed in the intervening year or so since I tried, but I just told them the phone line wasn't in my name at the new place and they let me off. I only had about a month left to run though.

Re: I knew you lot would come in useful one day

Posted: Wed 03 Oct, 2007 21.00
by Stuart*
Sput wrote:It might have changed in the intervening year or so since I tried, but I just told them the phone line wasn't in my name at the new place and they let me off. I only had about a month left to run though.
Blah...I stopped my TV Licence payments last July so the licence ran out in Jan 07. I didn't re-start it until 1 March 07 (naughty boy) but I had to put it in another name - hehe! my newly married sister! lol

Well it was from my account, I'm sure I've told her! But hey I'm paying!
:D

Re: I knew you lot would come in useful one day

Posted: Wed 03 Oct, 2007 21.12
by chinajan
Thanks Sput. That will be the case with me so hopefully it will work the same.

Re: I knew you lot would come in useful one day

Posted: Wed 03 Oct, 2007 23.01
by Sput
Best of luck! It sounded like they were trying to sell Virgin ADSL rather than try and make me pick up the contract.