{"id":84140,"date":"2018-03-29T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T06:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/my-nine-year-struggle-with-virgin-for-a-working-broadband-connection\/"},"modified":"2018-03-29T14:02:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T07:02:56","slug":"my-nine-year-struggle-with-virgin-for-a-working-broadband-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/my-nine-year-struggle-with-virgin-for-a-working-broadband-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"My nine-year struggle with Virgin for a working broadband connection"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nI\u2019ve lost days off workand freelance commissions, but it has just offered \u00a3100 in \u2018goodwill\u2019I\u2019ve been without a properly functioning broadband for nine years and Virgin Media seems unable to do anything about it. The problems began soon after I moved into my conversion flat in 2008. The cable runs over the roof, then splits to each of the properties, finally reaching my flat at the bottom. A technician advised that I would need my own cable fitted for a reliable connection. However, this is yet to happen. Since then, I have experienced regular loss of TV and broadband and needed to take a day off work to wait in for a technician on 10 occasions. Currently, I have been without my internet and TV services for over two months. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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I\u2019ve lost days off workand freelance commissions, but it has just offered \u00a3100 in \u2018goodwill\u2019I\u2019ve...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-lT6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4787,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/faster-broadband-speeds-but-slower-service-with-virgin-media\/","url_meta":{"origin":84140,"position":0},"title":"Faster broadband speeds, but slower service with Virgin Media","date":"February 15, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Why didn\u2019t it tell me at the start that there would be delays?At the start of the year I decided to switch to Virgin Media for its supposedly faster broadband download speeds. 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