Virgin's Unlimited SMS's thing...

[broken1]

I am quite interested in taking out Virgins new contract with unlimited sms's. I send quite a few sms's, so it seems it could be worth it.

I read the whole website, and there are a couple of things that irk me.

1) They have some sort of fair usage policy, whereby if they feel you are sending too many sms's than a person can rationally send - they can suspend the free service.

How many sms's is their theshhold? I send about 1000 sms's a month to my friends etc and some random people too - so will they pile on me and tell me it's too much?

2) They reserve the right to change the deal at anytime.

Does this mean they are going to sign me and 100k other poeple, give us free sms's for two months and then suddenly go oops..we changing it to free 60 sms's forever, not unlimited (ala Woza weekend 60 minutes).

I know they need their terms and conditions - but what I want to know, is what protection do I have that they wont suddenly take away this benefit of unlimited free sms's - which actually makes the contract a little useless and a vodacom contract much better value!

 

[MrG]

I personally dont believe they will remove the Unlimited SMSs option in that manner. Fair Usage Policy is there simply for their protection. The Virgin brand name will be badly damaged if they attempt something like this. Your protections is their current brand name they have built up. Something they will not just want to throw away.

 

[Syndyre]

I personally dont believe they will remove the Unlimited SMSs option in that manner. Fair Usage Policy is there simply for their protection. The Virgin brand name will be badly damaged if they attempt something like this. Your protections is their current brand name they have built up. Something they will not just want to throw away.

That's your only protection. The problem with that is that Cell C might step in, but I think there's less risk with this offer than there was with Woza Weekend because sms's put less load on the network and because the monthly payment on this offer is higher so its more profitable, not like the R5/week initially needed for Woza Weekend.