The future of virgin mobile...
16-02-2022, 12:58
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Re: The future of virgin mobile...
Because a B2B Contract is completely different to a B2C Contract - consumers tend not to have their senior managers and lawyers checking the contracts out before signing, and there’s very little likelihood of consumers getting the Supplier to amend the contract.
But you knew that already…
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16-02-2022, 17:33
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Re: The future of virgin mobile...
Exactly and this suits big business just fine.
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16-02-2022, 19:31
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Re: The future of virgin mobile...
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Exactly and this suits big business just fine.
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When you were involved in your business, did you negotiate individual contracts with your consumer customers?
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20-02-2022, 21:48
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Re: The future of virgin mobile...
They will shut it down as I can't see O2 wanting to hold onto the Virgin branding to be honest I think they will get rid of it as its a terrible brand compared to them, I was with virgin mobile years ago when it was a joint venture between Virgin & T-Mobile they were actually brilliant... fast forward to 2006 when NTL got their grubby hands on it went down hill poor customer service and general rip off.
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21-02-2022, 00:07
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Re: The future of virgin mobile...
Exactly, that's why I left. I'm surprised that Virgin allow their brand to be tarnished like this.
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21-02-2022, 11:34
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Re: The future of virgin mobile...
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They will shut it down as I can't see O2 wanting to hold onto the Virgin branding to be honest I think they will get rid of it as its a terrible brand compared to them
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The company currently has a dual brand (as per the attached). Both O2 and Virgin are powerful brands. It's unlikely that they'll choose one over the other.
I would expect a new identity to be formulated in the fullness of time.
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I was with virgin mobile years ago when it was a joint venture between Virgin & T-Mobile they were actually brilliant
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It was not a joint venture, VMO2, is a joint venture between Liberty Global and Telefonica whihc both own 50% of VMO2. Virgin Mobile pre 2006 was a thin MVNO that used T-Mobile's RAN and back office. It was basically just a re-badged T-Mobile service.
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fast forward to 2006 when NTL got their grubby hands on it went down hill poor customer service and general rip off.
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Virgin Mobile towards the end of the EE contract and into the Vodafone Contract transitioned from a Thin MVNO to a Thick MVNO where they only utilised the Mobile operators RAN and everything else (back office, core network, etc) was VM.
VMO2 have already advised that they are ending the MVNO contract with Vodafone and therefore Virgin Mobile will cease to be.
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21-02-2022, 15:59
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Re: The future of virgin mobile...
So .. If Virgin Mobile ceases to be, will all VM customers be moved to O2 ?
That will presumably mean a new SIM ?
What about phones locked to VM ? (If any exist these days).
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21-02-2022, 18:04
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Re: The future of virgin mobile...
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So .. If Virgin Mobile ceases to be, will all VM customers be moved to O2 ?
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That would be my expectation
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That will presumably mean a new SIM ?
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I'm not from the Mobile world, it may. Virgin Mobile switched from the EE RAN to the Vodafone RAN without the need for a new SIM, as I understand, because all of the network behind it was VM.
If they can integrate current VM back office into O2's there may not be a need for a SIM switch, I don't know tbh.
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What about phones locked to VM ? (If any exist these days).
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Again, don't know depends on how they do with the question before that.
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22-02-2022, 04:29
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Re: The future of virgin mobile...
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Originally Posted by Pierre
The company currently has a dual brand (as per the attached). Both O2 and Virgin are powerful brands. It's unlikely that they'll choose one over the other.
I would expect a new identity to be formulated in the fullness of time.
It was not a joint venture, VMO2, is a joint venture between Liberty Global and Telefonica whihc both own 50% of VMO2. Virgin Mobile pre 2006 was a thin MVNO that used T-Mobile's RAN and back office. It was basically just a re-badged T-Mobile service.
Virgin Mobile towards the end of the EE contract and into the Vodafone Contract transitioned from a Thin MVNO to a Thick MVNO where they only utilised the Mobile operators RAN and everything else (back office, core network, etc) was VM.
VMO2 have already advised that they are ending the MVNO contract with Vodafone and therefore Virgin Mobile will cease to be.
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actually yes it was a joint venture between One2One and the Virgin Group, Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile) sold their share a few years later and then even later NTL:Telewest bought the network to gain access to the branding, just because it was/is an MVNO doesn't mean it cant be a joint venture.
Tesco Mobile is an MVNO but is 50% owned by VMO2
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13-09-2022, 00:33
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Re: The future of virgin mobile...
has anyone who tried upgrading their virgin mobile tariff been told they're moving to o2?
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13-09-2022, 09:11
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Re: The future of virgin mobile...
Virgin Mobile SIMs have moved to the O2 radio network for most customers and that migration should be finished soon.
For some upgrades when you speak to an agent you may now also be offered O2 options as well as the Virgin Mobile ones. If you accept an O2 deal you'd be moved over to being a 'full' O2 customer.
Otherwise you remain a Virgin Mobile customer, and nothing has been announced about that changing.
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19-09-2022, 08:23
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Re: The future of virgin mobile...
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Virgin Mobile SIMs have moved to the O2 radio network for most customers and that migration should be finished soon.
For some upgrades when you speak to an agent you may now also be offered O2 options as well as the Virgin Mobile ones. If you accept an O2 deal you'd be moved over to being a 'full' O2 customer.
Otherwise you remain a Virgin Mobile customer, and nothing has been announced about that changing.
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Hello Ben,
Have you been getting reports of terrible performance since the migrations started?
When VM was on the EE network it was superb. Moved to the Vodafone network and it was not quite as good but pretty decent. Since moving to o2 it has been diabolical. 4G speeds of 0.25mbps are not uncommon. It basically renders the phone useless, struggle to even load plain text a lot of the time.
It’s been widely documented that o2 have capacity issues, I can’t believe between VM and o2 they thought shifting a further 3-4 million customers onto the network was a good idea!
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20-09-2022, 11:28
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Re: The future of virgin mobile...
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Hello Ben,
Have you been getting reports of terrible performance since the migrations started?
When VM was on the EE network it was superb. Moved to the Vodafone network and it was not quite as good but pretty decent. Since moving to o2 it has been diabolical. 4G speeds of 0.25mbps are not uncommon. It basically renders the phone useless, struggle to even load plain text a lot of the time.
It’s been widely documented that o2 have capacity issues, I can’t believe between VM and o2 they thought shifting a further 3-4 million customers onto the network was a good idea!
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Silly question could just be were you are , had Vodafone and it was rubbish now have Tesco (o2) which is great
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20-09-2022, 21:37
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Re: The future of virgin mobile...
i was getting 600kb on 5G with o2 today!
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21-09-2022, 20:51
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Re: The future of virgin mobile...
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i was getting 600kb on 5G with o2 today!
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Same here, however for me it was at the same time of a big Virgin TV and broadband outage in my area (Teesside).
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