Virgin Media: 5 per month for 5 months, 25 thereafter, unlimited calls texts and data

Haha, clearly Virgin Media are desperate now. They most be losing customers hand over fist to GoMo. €25 is too much for a virtual network IMO and locking that price to just Virgin customers until now, come on :rolleyes:

Fair enough if you want to get the 5 months for €5, but I don't see why you'd want to stay with them beyond that.

beauf wrote: »

Until GoMo it was compative for a 30 day plan.

And now it isn't.

I don't think it was particularly competitive either before now. Vodafone X plans were better for light data users IMO and Three All you could eat data for big data users (VM is limited to 80GB). And there is Tesco Mobiles, far better value for money.

For a new startup in the mobile arena it was all a bit mediocre IMO.

What Eir/Gomo are doing now is what VM should have done to gain real market share. It is like a repeat of ID mobile all over again. If you want to come into a mature market and gain significant marketshare, you really need to be disruptive. These companies seem to take far too much of a conservative approach to really get anywhere.

beauf wrote: »

Yeah you could do a €10 plan on 48 etc. 10x120=120. But for 80 more unlimted data and everything for €80 more, and not having to remember top-ups. totally worth it for me.

Except it isn't unlimited, 80GB fair use policy with VM.

I just checked, VM's market share is about 2% of the market, hardly setting the market on fire.

Anyway Gomo is here now and it looks like 48months/Three is about to respond with a similar plan. And of course Tesco and Lyca will likely eventually respond too. VM will need to do far better if they want to hold onto even that 2%.

Of course in the bigger scheme of things, it isn't that big of a deal for VM, they have lots of other markets. But I expect the uptake of their mobile plan isn't anything like they expected. The mobile market is far more competitive then the cable/bb market. Maybe they will just bundle their mobile for free with their BB like Eir do.

beauf wrote: »

Nothing is unlimited. You hardly needed to explain that.

I don't care any of these companies business plans. I just refuse to pay their rip off prices.

I'll keep switching to the lowest hanging fruit.

Oh absolutely.

I'm just disappointed that the latest two entrances to the market, ID and VM have been so mediocre and changed almost nothing. It is rather ironic that it is Eir, a major network, that is now really disrupting the market *

I've long argued that the product that Gomo is selling is what the market wanted and what ID/VM should have first offered. Didn't even need to be €10, the same plan but €15 would have been fine for them.

* Though if you look at the Comreg market share numbers, you can see why Eir are doing this. Their market share has been shrinking almost every quarter, down to just 16% odd now. Not good when you need to maintain an expensive network. Gomo looks like a move to recapture market share from Three and Vodafone.