Virgin Media Could Offer Free Broadband, but With a Catch

In today’s day and age, freebies have become far less common, with most companies and organisations choosing to make more bucks rather than provide more freebies in order to get more customers. However, it seems that Virgin Media customers could soon get the same.

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As was spotted by a reader of ISPreview, it seems that Virgin is hinting at a new service that offers broadband without users having to pay a penny for the same. Virgin Media currently offers cheaper broadband to its users when adding a phone line, which effectively means that you can get 100Mbps speeds for just £25 on a monthly basis.

The reader, in a post, explained that he was surprised to come across an advert this week that was offering a Free Broadband service from Virgin Media. Once he had worked out it wasn’t fraudulent, he decided to placed the order which asked for his name and address. Since then he has received confirmation emails and account details as well as confirmation of delivery for the Hub.

What Do We Know About this Service

As of now, the service supposedly offers low speeds of around 10Mbps but seeing as to how it’s totally free some might not be worried about sluggish downloads. The offering, which is called “Be Connected Broadband”, was only available to 200 people during the trial but it could be a taste of things in store for the future.

As the terms state, the reason for this freebie is that Virgin wants those signing up to accept that they will then be targeted by adverts.
If the trial is indeed a success then it might be possible to give more people access to this basic broadband if they are happy to see sponsored adverts.