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The Sun
08-08-2025
- Business
- The Sun
Virgin Media slashes price of TNT Sports just in time for the Premier League 2025/26 season
VIRGIN Media has slashed the price of TNT Sports just in time for the forthcoming Premier League season. The UK TV and broadband provider has launched two new offers as football fans gear up for another year of matches. 9 9 9 To get TNT Sports, you need to subscribe to a service that includes the channel in its service. Now, Virgin Media is now offering a special deal for the service, as sports lovers can now get TNT Sports for just £5 a month. Fans will be able to get this rate for the channel for the first three months. This is one fifth of the original price and a huge reduction of the usual cost of £25 per month. Another flash offer has also been advertised to fans until August 13th, so sports viewers don't have long to take it up. This would get them a free 50inch Toshiba 4K TV or a £145 credit with selected bundles. However, there are a number of caveats to the setup of Virgin Media and how these deals actually work. TV service overhaul 9 Virgin Media has made sweeping changes to the way it has delivered its TV service over the past few years. To access Virgin Media TV, you will need to get one of their broadband packages as it is not available as a standalone service. You can however choose between a Flex option for more flexibility with 30 day rolling contracts for a £5 extra monthly fee. TNT Sports to broadcast opening 2025 FA Community Shield game Or you can commit to a long-term bundle which includes TV; however, there are broadband requirements regardless of which hardware or contract type you choose. This applies to all Virgin Media TV services regardless of the deals. In April 2022, Virgin Media launched the Stream box, which is now a default option for all new customers in 2025. Unless you specifically request the TV 360 version - which is not available in all areas - if you sign up today then you will automatically get the Stream box. How do I check my Virgin Media service status? Virgin Media has a dedicated web page where you can find out if there are any problems in your area. Click here to visit the My Virgin service update website. To find out if there are problems in your area, enter your postcode. See our Virgin Media outages guide for more information on how to check your service and if you're eligible for compensation. Subscriptions can be added such as Netflix, Disney+, and Sky Sports without being locked into basic commitments. Traditional TV bundles are still available, but only for 24-month agreements for broadband and the TV part. TNT Sports 9 After BT Sport 's transformation in 2023, TNT Sports emerged when Warner Bros. Discovery acquired half of the business. Some of the UK's most valuable sports rights are held by the service. This includes exclusive Premier League matches, especially fixtures which kick off at 12:30pm on Saturday's. UEFA Champions League football, the FA Cup, MotoGP, UFC, boxing, and international cricket are also included. It absorbed all of Eurosport UK content in 2025 after the brand was discontinued. Tennis Grand Slams, cycling's Grand Tours, and winter sports were all added to the list of rights. In 2023, Virgin Media removed TNT Sports from its bundles in a huge surprise to long-time subscribers and new customers had to add the service as a separate add-on. But you can now get the platform monthly for just £5 for the first three months if you sign up today. Following this, the price will then revert back to £25 a month. In comparison, the standalone platform costs £30.99 a month on Discovery+. 9 9 9 9
The Independent
07-08-2025
- Business
- The Independent
Watchdog names the best and worst UK broadband and phone network providers
Ofcom 's latest report on customer complaints for January to March reveals TalkTalk as the leading source of grievances for broadband and landline services. O2, Three, and iD Mobile were identified as the most complained-about mobile providers, while Virgin Media received the highest number of complaints for pay-TV. Conversely, Plusnet generated the fewest complaints among broadband providers, and EE, Sky Mobile, Tesco Mobile, and Vodafone were the least problematic mobile networks. The regulator publishes these quarterly figures to provide transparency on consumer experiences, assist customers in choosing providers, and encourage service improvements. While overall complaint numbers have stabilised, Ofcom urges providers to enhance customer service, with TalkTalk and Virgin Media O2 acknowledging the need for further improvements.
Daily Mail
01-08-2025
- Business
- Daily Mail
Friday workdays end at 3pm - IF you are working from home: Data shows drop in broadband traffic as WFH workers start weekend early
It's a daily grind epitomised by Dolly Parton 's classic tune '9 to 5'. But now it appears those working from home are rebelling against the traditional daytime shift hours. Shirking remote workers are getting an early start on the weekend - by switching off from 3pm on a Friday, according to a new study. Broadband traffic levels from Virgin Media shows a dip of about eight per cent between 3-5pm compared with the winter months. It's led to claims those staff working from home who are clocking off early are behind the drop. Many surveyed by Virgin are unrepentant at signing off at 3pm, with 59 per cent surveyed admitting they weren't the slightest bit guilty. One man who works from home and leaves early without telling his bosses, told Daily Mail he unashamedly sneaks off for a Jack Daniel's and Coke at the pub. 'No one asks if I'm okay staying late to finish a project on time. So I don't ask to leave early on Friday. I work my contracted hours and I get my work done. Who cares?' Almost two thirds (61 per cent) believed they had earned the right to swan off at 3pm after a busy week, while 63 per cent insisted they were more productive earlier in the week if they believed they would have a shorter day on Friday. One-in-10 Britons have admitted to working from pub gardens on a summer Friday to escape their desks and lap up the sunshine, while others hang at a beach. While almost a third of 18 to 24-year-olds (30 per cent) admitted they had worked from the car while travelling for the weekend. Despite almost half of UK adults saying they're not allowed to wrap up their shifts early on a Friday, some 32 per cent revealed they simply don't care and do so anyway. Some 24 per cent of those questioned claimed they often secretly ditch work early while keeping their online status as 'active' on a summer Friday. Britain has the most people working from home in Europe, with some 42 per cent of the population either fully or partially working remotely, the Office for National Statistics found. But the practice, which ballooned in popularity during the Covid lockdowns of 2020 and 2021, is facing a growing backlash. A recent poll found 55 per cent of workers were suffering from 'video call fatigue' and were bored of endless meetings over Zoom. The study also revealed how productivity slumped while WFH, with 46 per cent of hybrid workers believing they are more productive in the office than remote and only 23 per cent think they are more productive at home. Jacob Rees-Mogg, the former business secretary, was one of the ministers pushing for civil servants to return to the office amid productivity fears. After it emerged Britain was the working from home capital of Europe, he said: 'No wonder our productivity record, especially in the public sector, continues to be so bad.' And in a furious recorded rant that went viral, Jamie Dimon - the chief executive of JP Morgan Chase, slammed staff earlier this year for working from home. 'Don't give me this s*** that work-from-home-Friday works,' Dimon told workers, according to the recording - which has been viewed more than 1.7million times. 'I call a lot of people on Fridays, and there's not a goddamn person you can get a hold of.' His bank demanded staff returned to the office full-time, along with other Wall Street firms, including Goldman Sachs and BlackRock as well as Amazon. HSBC has told its executives to return to the office four days a week from later this year and Barclays rolled out a minimum of three days. While BT and Asda demand staff are in three days a week. John Roberts, chief executive of also outlawed WFH, saying it 'doesn't work' and that the firm had to get 'it's priorities right here'. 'The priority is customers and culture and so we need everybody in the office,' he told the BBC. But not everyone is against WFH. One person on X wrote: 'I used to leave early on a Friday from the office to avoid the crazy traffic. This is after arriving late most days, also because of traffic. My 2 hours commuting everyday is now spent working, so I'm doing more hours than I ever did before by not having to sit in my car.' British employees now work from home for 1.8 days a week on average compared to 1.3 days globally, according to a recent King's College London (KCL) study. The UK's post-lockdown WFH boom means many young workers are demanding 100 per cent remote-working and even refusing to come into the office for job interviews, bosses have said. One media chief told how the pendulum of power has swung away from the employer towards the employee, saying: 'Gen-Z candidates want to know what the employer can do for them first - they're the ones in power.' James Micklethwait, vice-president of online educational firm Kahoot!, told the Mail how the 'changing post-pandemic work environment' was prompting firms to offer better deals to WFH Gen Z-ers - for fear they could be tempted elsewhere if denied at least hybrid working. A recent survey by Deloitte found some 77 per cent of Gen Z-ers in the UK and 71 per cent of slightly older millennials would consider looking for a new job if told they had to turn up at their workplace full-time. Mr Micklethwait said: 'With many Gen Zs entering the workforce for the first time after having experienced remote education as a consequence of the pandemic, they are increasingly seeking non-traditional desk roles as a result. 'With this, companies need to manage the generational divide and begin to embrace technology that can ease their transition into the workplace. 'With Covid lockdowns permanently altering the way we work, it is likely that we will see an increase in roles that would have once been considered out of the ordinary, as employers look to appeal to the demands of younger, tech-minded workers.' According to those surveyed by Virgin, some 30 per cent of companies sanction an early Friday exit in the summer. Dr Cevat Giray Aksoy, associate professor of economics at KCL, told The Times: 'If some people are logging off at 3pm on a Friday, that's not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, it may reflect greater efficiency, better time management, or simply a more balanced work culture. 'What ultimately matters is whether the work gets done, not whether someone is active on their broadband connection at a particular hour.' Jeanie York, chief technology officer at Virgin Media O2, said: 'Our network traffic analysis is revealing changing workplace habits in real time as the nation takes advantage of long summer Fridays.'
