Virgin Mobile Broadband USB Modem

Virgin's mobile broadband service offers good value, but its performance is erratic

PC World Australia (online)

  • Expert Rating

    3.00 / 5

  • User Rating

    0.50 / 5 (of 3 Reviews)

  • Price

    $ 129.00 (AUD)

User Reviews:

1

Angel Sat 07/01/2012 - 02:27

  • Pros
    Nothing about it
  • Cons
    Everything about it.

Crooks i stood on the phone for an hour to get credit on a charge of a card that i had cancelled 6 months ago and out of the blue i get a charge after 6 months of cancelation for 40 bucks. After being transfered 5 times i get transfered to the phone department that could not help with the charge nor transfer me back to the previous rep. Horrible coutomer service I would not recommend this to my worst enemy. Don't buy it dont get into it it is the worst i have ever had to deal with.

Rated this product:
0.0
2

ANNASun 21/08/2011 - 00:50

  • Pros
    NOT VIRGIN
  • Cons
    VIRGIN

Bought the USB Modem online at AU$39.00 on offer. It started out badly with the billing, with Virgin charging my credit card with $79.00. With activation I am kept on hold 3 times for at leeast 30-45 minutes. I finally get through to their call centre which is obviously located in India. The call centre operator was completely unintelligible to the point where I kept repeateing "I cannot understand anything you are saying, could you please repeat" - truly mind boggling. Obviously after this experience, you'd expect the internet access to be total cr*p, and it is. Its a complete waste of money. Pages just sit there waiting to connect for ages and ages, while you watch the connection indicator spin away endlessly. UTTER GARBAGE! And I still havent got my overcharged $40 back.

Rated this product:
0.0
3

robertWed 10/08/2011 - 10:26

  • Pros
    pay as u go
  • Cons
    service tech support

I recently purchased 3 g virgin mobile broad band 2 go at wal-mart (1 gb a month) as what I needed. worked great for 15 days,then stopped working !called virgin mobile , they sent me a new device.now they are telling me they cannot honor wal-marts 20$ a month for 1 gig bite, that it would be half a gb. that's not what I bought . go figure.

Rated this product:
1.0

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